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Hazelbeck Special Secondary 2016 Good (2019) Dear Parents and Guardians, Primary 2016 Requires Improvement (2019) I’d like to start by welcoming new families to Beckfoot Trust. I hope that you feel excited to have Beckfoot Allerton Primary 2016 Requires Improvement (2019) secured a place for your child within one of our Secondary Not yet Inspected schools. The purpose of the report is to update you Beckfoot Heaton 2016 on the progress of the Trust. Secondary 2017 Not yet Inspected

We have ten schools in our Trust. All are located in Beckfoot Thornton Special 2017 Not yet Inspected the area and serve their local community. Primary Our aim is to provide great schools for our pupils to Beckfoot Phoenix 2018 • A similar theme has been evident within our Trust grow up and learn in. Conferences for our staff. Out of the Conference Beckfoot Priestthorpe Primary All of our schools are improving, some rapidly, as a this year we have created a new vision for our Trust Beckfoot Nessfield ‘Creating Remarkable Schools’. You can find it on our result of working together as one team of schools. > Sports Day was fantastic with Year 6 and Year website at http://www.beckfoottrust.org/?p=62808. The intention is that every Beckfoot Trust school 7 children from all of our schools competing. will achieve an Ofsted judgement of good or better. Winners included children from all our schools. Finally, this year we are going to explore in detail how we You can see on the right where we have got to. It was a particular joy to see children from our can do more to engage with you as families. We know > By the age of sixteen, 55% of our young people special schools competing against others from our that a child has the best chance of succeeding in school if achieved a GCSE at Level 4 or above in both mainstream schools and winning! Overall Beckfoot English and Maths compared to 48% in 2016. they know their family and school are working together Priestthorpe and Beckfoot schools took the as their support team. To start us off it would be really At eighteen the average A level grade in our honours this year. Some of our highlights: > helpful to get some feedback from you on what you feel schools was a C grade. Our newly established Trust we are doing well, and how we can get better. The link to We really believe in empowering our pupils. We want • Very positive Ofsted judgements for those of our 6th Form based at Beckfoot, Beckfoot Oakbank • the Survey is below. I promise it won’t take more than ten them to have a view about the world they live in. We schools that have been inspected since joining the and Beckfoot Thornton will raise standards further. minutes of your time! Trust. Two are now outstanding schools, others have held our first ever Trust-wide student conference in https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ progressed to being good, whilst others still requiring • We have established annual or bi-annual Trust-wide February 2019 which was brilliant. Student leaders Parent survey: improvement are clearly improving at pace. events linked to sports, arts and debating. challenged us to make sure our schools are fit for BeckfootTrustfamilysurvey children growing up in the 21st century. The world is

• In terms of results this year: > Well done Beckfoot Allerton for winning the rapidly changing, the pressures on young people are David Horn, Trust Debating competition this year. They were CEO Beckfoot Trust At the age of five, 72% of our children achieved a more complex and of course the world of work is very > amazing. All of our schools are developing more ‘good level of development’, up from 68% in 2016. different. We need to make sure our schools move [email protected] and more learning opportunities for children to talk Beckfoot Trust, WagonE: Lane, BD16 1EE This says a great deal about what our schools are with the times, keep our children safe, develop them 01274 771444 about ideas. Talk matters! T: doing in nursery and reception years. These children as people, make sure they have ambition and prepare are well placed to do well at primary school. > We love the Sports and Arts. Last year we had our them for a great future. first ever Trust Arts Festival where children from all By the age of eleven, 50% of our children achieved > our schools showed their talents in dance, drama, the expected standard in reading, writing and art and music. It was great. maths compared to only 34% in 2016. This prepares them well for secondary school. We are constantly looking to improve and are committed to become a truly remarkable school. We welcome any opportunity to Beckfoot Upper Heaton 2019-20• Students are really thriving in their positions work with our families so that no stone is of responsibility as they help shape the future left unturned in our bid to make our young Annual Report: direction the school travels in.in school as seen succeed people excellent people who are successful in young people to become more engaged in whatever they chose to do when they leave Our young people community related initiatives. A tutor group us. Please get in touch, we would love to hear from our school were selected to represent in our Year 11 results: Enjoy, from you. We live out every minute of our school Yorkshire in First Give’s national event. This • In the summer of 2018, the progress our day through our Trust. motto; included a tour of the Houses of Parliament. students made from coming in to our school to Graeme Wrightson learn in school through Learn and Succeed school through the leaving at the end of Year 11 allowed us to win Headteacher enjoy Our young people : a national award. This has enabled us to hold Beckfoot Upper Heaton School, Our young people the academic, motivational and leadership up our older students as role models for our Thorn Lane, Bradford BD9 6AL experiential opportunities we provide including: opportunities we provide, including younger ones. T: 01274 493533 There were in excess of 40 trips and visits in Excellent motivational speakers including Kajal • • We have followed that up with another summer E: [email protected] the last academic year. Odedra, the executive director for Change.Org • of success in 2019 in which we are thrilled UK division and Jon Hammond the BBC Radio www.beckfootupperheaton.org Year 11 were so business like in the ‘revision again that our students have doors open for • and Television presenter. conference’ we put on at a nearby hotel where the next stage of their lives. teachers of English, mathematics and science • Students have really benefitted from delivered sessions that allowed our young these experiences and are developing people to learn in a completely different way. their leadership skills through our student leadership body and Social Action Group. • All our Year 9 (now Year 10) students were involved with the charity First Give who seek to work with schools to empower