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new pic to go here PROSPECTUS 2018/19 SHAPING LIVES, TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES 2018 Celebrating 10 years of Leigh Academies Trust 2 Leigh Academies Trust Prospectus 2018/19 Welcome to Leigh Academies Trust Welcome to our Our clusters contain all phases of education, they live as children and will continue as Trust Prospectus from nursery to post-16. Each one has a adults, so that the life chances of future for 2018-19. passionate commitment to inclusion. For generations are enhanced by a strong Please take example, Milestone Academy, in our North- legacy handed down from those who have time to browse West Kent Cluster, is one of the region’s gone before them. through these largest special schools. Across many of our pages, which will mainstream academies, both primary and If you are interested to find out more about give you a sense secondary, we have designated centres for us, please do get in contact. Whether you of what Leigh children with special educational needs. are a current or prospective parent of a Academies Trust child in one of our academies, an employer does. We are Our academies are like siblings, not clones. keen to forge links with schools, a member already one of the country’s most successful We believe that innovation, creativity and of the community interested in becoming multi-academy trusts. We are incredibly empowerment are vital. These qualities a governor, a potential employee or an proud of our achievements – we hope you cannot thrive in an environment where educational establishment interested in will see why. everyone is forced to do the same thing. partnership with an already-successful However, like all siblings, our academies multi-academy trust, we would like We are developing ‘clusters’ of academies share certain core values and ways of to hear from you. along the South Thames Corridor, an area operating. You can learn more about the of significant industrial and residential things our academies share in common over development in the South-East of England. the next few pages. Each cluster is no more than a thirty- minute drive from end to end. Geography More than anything, we are about shaping is important to ensure strong collaboration. children’s lives for the better through high- So too is our continuous planned and quality education and care. In doing so, we Simon Beamish measured approach to further growth. aim to transform the communities in which Chief Executive Leigh Academies Trust Prospectus 2018/19 3 Our mission, values and vision Vision: LAT EXCELLENCE CHARTER 1) We will provide outstanding leadership and governance at every level so that all pupils attend an academy judged to be at least good overall by Ofsted. 2) We will ensure a rich, engaging and inclusive curriculum with effective teaching and high-quality learning resources across all subjects and year groups. 3) Regardless of their ability or personal circumstances we will ensure that all groups of pupils make at least good progress and diminish differences in their attainment. 4) We will develop pupils’ characters and attributes in line Mission: with the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile so that all LAT alumni obtain a collection of desirable Shaping Lives, Transforming Communities qualities before they leave school. 5) We will ensure that pupils are well-behaved, confident Values: and respectful in a safe and secure environment. We care – about our pupils We work together – as one through our human-scale team in the belief that we 6) We will ensure a high-quality workforce and prioritise approach to education, our are greater than the sum staff retention, professional development and well- staff and their well-being of our parts. We foster an being. and the communities that enterprising culture through we serve, driven by our high collaboration and in close 7) Through our “Business Promise” we will guarantee strong ideals and strong moral partnership with industry engagement for all pupils with industry and employers. values. and other educators. 8) We will provide all pupils with a high-quality careers We have boundless We keep getting better – learning programme. ambition – to achieve using our ‘can-do’ attitude excellence for all and create towards continuous 9) We will grow to support more schools in the region so confident young adults with improvement and that our pupils and theirs benefit and that standards high levels of resilience and innovation. improve across the board. integrity. 10) We will work with our own and other primaries to ensure smooth transition to our secondary academies. 4 Leigh Academies Trust Prospectus 2018/19 Our founders Sir Geoffrey Leigh Bob Findlay Founding sponsor Chairman The Leigh City Technology College (CTC) opened in 1990 as Bob Findlay was born in Canada, but has lived in the UK one of the original 15 city technology colleges, through the since 1965. He joined Morgan-Grampian in 1969 and later generous personal sponsorship of Sir Geoffrey Leigh. became Managing Director of its main operating subsidiary He became the first Chairman of the College in 1990 and and a Director of the public holding company. In 1974, he retired in 2006. left Morgan-Grampian to start Findlay Publications. When the CTC was first formed, Sir Geoffrey was Chairman A strong desire to help address manufacturing’s greatest and Managing Director of Allied London Properties PLC, constraint, its skills shortage, through persuading young a company quoted on the Stock Exchange and engaged people to pursue careers in engineering, led him in 1989 to in the development of commercial, industrial and office donate £400,000 and lead a £1.6 million project developing buildings and housebuilding. Through his charitable work new curriculum programmes for the fledgling City in education, business and health, both in the private and Technology Colleges Trust. Concurrently, he helped found public sectors, he has helped organisations to grow, to and build the Kent TEC into a £30million success, delivering become more effective and to raise large sums of money government-training programmes. In 2006, he became for the benefit of their communities and the country. Chair of Governors at The Leigh City Technology College in Dartford which, together with Longfield Academy, became Leigh Academies Trust in 2008. Leigh Academies Trust Prospectus 2018/19 5 Our academies 9 8 1 secondary primary special academies academies academy South-East London cluster STATIONERS’ CROWN WOODS ACADEMY Medway cluster North-West Central Kent Forthcoming Bearsted Kent cluster academies Primary Academy Aspire Believe Achieve cluster e Top o lehil aks e s l O Leigh r M P T P y y y y P r r Snowfields y Hartley i i Academy r i m m m m Academy Primary Academy m m e e a e ar d ar d ry ad y Aca y Aca Rainham Dartford Ac Primary Academy 6 Leigh Academies Trust Prospectus 2018/19 From small beginnings... The Trust was formed in 2008, when All of our current academies can be When this project is finished, our The Leigh Technology Academy and accessed within a one-hour drive of one clusters will include around ten schools, Longfield Academy were linked under another. We want to keep it this way by serving approximately 6,000 students one governing body. It currently developing self-improving ‘clusters’ of from ages 2-19, all with a highly- encompasses more than 12,000 academies across the south-east. inclusive approach to education. They students, between the ages of 2 and The first cluster was in North-West Kent, will be strong and confident groupings 19, in eighteen primary, secondary and centred around Dartford, and is almost with their own identities, but which special academies. complete. The other three existing subscribe to the core values and clusters are in South-East London distinctive features of the Trust. Each South-East The latest addition is Leigh Academy (Greenwich and Bexley), Central Kent cluster has its own team of principals London Blackheath, which opened in September (between Maidstone and Tonbridge) who report directly to the Chief cluster 2018 as a brand-new secondary and Medway. Executive of the Trust. free school in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Three further free schools are scheduled to open in 2020. The Trust has chosen to remain local and to grow in a measured way across neighbouring boroughs and county boundaries. We believe that managerial freedom for effective leaders produces innovation and creativity. We offer our best leaders the chance to improve the lives of even more children, or what we call ‘earned opportunity’. Leigh Academies Trust Prospectus 2018/19 7 Primary education The Trust is strongly committed to possible. Our secondary academies Wherever possible, our primary primary education. A successful often allow preferential access under academies have their own nurseries. primary education generally leads to their admissions arrangements for Currently, the Trust has eight nurseries, a successful life afterwards. If things students attending our LAT primary but this is likely to grow over the next go wrong in primary school, some academies. eighteen months. This helps us to children never recover. get children’s development off to a Our governing bodies are also linked. successful start from the moment they Our aim is for all our primaries to be Whilst primary academies all have enter formal education. linked to a nearby secondary academy. their own development groups, they Strong collaboration is encouraged are governed by an Academy Board, from the outset to provide additional which brings together primary and ‘I was delighted to see that opportunities for staff and students. secondary governors around one table. Hartley Primary Academy These links help to break down the This enables governors to understand artificial divide between the primary the process of education from age 2 has been judged to be and secondary phases, so that through to 19 and is a powerful driver ‘outstanding’ in all areas by students’ transition is as smooth as of collaboration between phases.

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