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Leigh Academies Trust of the Academic Year 2018-19 Autumn 2019 | Issue Four Leigh Academies Trust Review of the Academic Year 2018-19 Shaping Lives, Transforming Communities A message from the Chief Executive Vision 2025 The academic year 2018-19 has been one of the most remarkable in the history of the Trust. We have overcome Major social, economic barriers, crossed frontiers and continued to innovate. and technological LAT’s response - Importantly, we have entered our second decade and challenges facing the Vision 2025 are determined to make the next ten years even more world today successful than the first. Since 2008 we have become one of the largest, strongest and most ambitious multi-academy Develop environmentally trusts in the UK, but our desire to get even better and make conscious young people a positive difference never stops. who feel empathy, act Modern lifestyles are compassionately and We are now ready to think on an even bigger scale and look destroying our planet and behave ethically. Create outwards to new horizons. We are educating thousands creating inequality. social entrepreneurs with a of young people who will be the adults of tomorrow, sense of service to others, helping to shape our world for the better. That is a huge future generations and to responsibility and is why our next set of goals - called Vision the planet. 2025 - will have at its centre the major social, economic and technological challenges facing the world today. Based on our strong moral foundations, it is our duty to educate Develop young people pupils to face these challenges and to help make the world who think critically based on a secure knowledge a better place. Humans are overloaded and understanding. Enable with information. Vision 2025 will be shared with our community soon and them to apply insight and will draw heavily upon the philosophy of the International determine the significance Baccalaureate and Learner Profile. Its focus can be of information. summarised in the table on the right. Develop pioneering young people who respond These major challenges facing our world today will be the Traditional jobs are being innovatively and creatively starting point for the next phase of our work. We accept replaced by automation to find solutions. Ensure our responsibility to shape the world for the better by and artificial intelligence. developing a generation of young people determined and that they can harness the able to make a positive difference. All of our futures depend power of digital technology. on it and our aspirations are sky-high. As Steve Jobs said, “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the Develop internationally world are the ones who do”. Globalisation and the minded young people pace of technological with a wide range of change are leaving many perspectives, who are people behind. adaptable, flexible and appreciative of difference. Simon Beamish Develop young people Chief Executive who have a positive can-do attitude and strong work ethic, able to collaborate A lack of employment and work as part of a team. skills, especially in STEM, Focus on the importance is a risk to UK wealth and of STEM and employer productivity. links wherever possible to increase the volume of well-qualified young people entering the workplace. 2 www.leighacademiestrust.org.uk Contents › A message from the Chief Executive ......2 › LAT Primary Results 2019 .........................4-5 › LAT GCSE Results 2019 .................................6 › LAT Post-16 Results 2019 .............................7 › Ofsted Inspections .....................................8-9 › LAT Ofsted Table 2019 .................................10 › New Senior Appointments ......................11 › New Academies joining LAT .....................12 › Williamson Merger .......................................12 › Free Schools ....................................................13 › IB Review ...................................................14-15 › Trust Conference ...........................................16 › LAT Awards ......................................................17 › Leigh Academy Blackheath’s First Year .18 › Our Values .......................................................19 › Trust Excellence Charter .............................19 Shaping Lives, Transforming Communities 3 LAT Primary Results 2019 LAT primary academies improved across all main measures of performance in 2019. In nearly all cases, consolidated LAT primary results exceed national averages, sometimes by some margin. Early years Once again, LAT pupils got off to a great National start in the early years. 10 out of 12 LAT LAT LAT Average primaries exceeded the national average 2018 2019 for the proportion of pupils reaching a 2018 good level of development in the early years. 7 out of 12 improved on their % pupils achieving a good level of 72 76 78 performance in 2018. In 3 primaries, development early years outcomes were especially high at over 80%. Phonics screening test 8 out of 12 LAT primaries exceeded the National national average for passing the year LAT LAT Average 1 phonics screening test with 5 out of 2018 2019 12 improving on their result in 2018. 2018 Phonics outcomes were especially high % pupils passing phonics screening test in at three LAT primaries where more than 83 83 86 90% of pupils passed. year 1 Virtually all LAT pupils passed the % pupils passing phonics screening test in phonics screening test by the end 92 94 94 of year 2. In two LAT primaries, 100% year 2 of pupils did so. Key stage 1 LAT key stage 1 primary outcomes rose National across all subjects in 2019 and exceeded LAT LAT Average national averages in all cases. Outcomes 2018 2019 at several academies were especially 2018 high with over 80% of pupils meeting or exceeding the national standard. Five % pupils reaching expected standard in 75 75 78 primaries exceeded 80% at expected reading standard in reading; two did so in writing; seven did so in maths. % pupils reaching expected standard in 70 70 73 writing % pupils reaching expected standard in 76 77 78 maths 4 www.leighacademiestrust.org.uk Key stage 2 Nine LAT academies received key stage 2 results in 2019 as Outcomes exceeded 80% and were especially strong at 3 out three do not yet have pupils in year 6. 5 out of 9 exceeded of 9 LAT primaries for reading, 8 out of 9 for writing and 4 out the national average for the percentage of pupils achieving of 9 for maths. The stand-out performance was at Oaks Primary the combined national standard; 5 out of 9 improved on their were 40% of pupils achieved the combined higher standard performance in 2018 against the same benchmark. versus a national average of 10%. Also at Oaks, progress scores for all subjects are likely to exceed +5. National LAT LAT Average 2018 2019 2019 % pupils reaching combined expected standard 65 66 69 % pupils reaching combined higher standard 10** 9 12 % pupils reaching expected standard in reading 73 70 74 % pupils reaching higher standard in reading 28** 23 27 % pupils reaching expected standard in writing 78 82 88 % pupils reaching higher standard in writing 20** 27 29 % pupils reaching expected standard in maths 79 74 81 % pupils reaching higher standard in maths 24** 22 26 % pupils reaching expected standard GPaS* 78 73 76 % pupils reaching higher standard in GPaS* 34** 33 31 * Grammar, punctuation and spelling. ** 2018 averages included as 2019 not yet available. LAT Key stage 2 vs England, Kent and Medway (2019) England Kent Medway LAT Average Average Average Average % expected reading 73 76 71 74 % expected writing 78 82 78 88 % expected maths 79 78 77 81 % expected combined 65 68 63 69 NOTES: › Data given in tables includes all primary academies which have been part of LAT since 1st September 2018. › Colours indicate comparison of 2019 outcomes versus those in 2018. Shaping Lives, Transforming Communities 5 LAT GCSE Results 2019 Our academies recently celebrated the achievements of their students in GCSE examinations. The proportion of pupils achieving 9-4 grades in English and maths has risen to 62% across the Trust this year, up by 9 percentage points. 36% of pupils achieved grades 9-5 in English and maths which is up by 7 percentage points. Attainment 8 has risen from 40 to 42 points overall. These improvements are the most Leigh Academies Trust has experienced in any 12-month period in its eleven year history. 9 out of 10 academies matched or improved their attainment at 9-4 in English and maths this year compared to finalised results in 2018; 6 out of 10 academies did so at grades 9-5. Attainment 8 improved in 8 out of 10 academies. The column entitled “equivalent academies” compares the performance of academies in 2019 with the same sample of those included in overall LAT results in 2018. The column entitled “all LAT” also includes academies which are new to LAT in 2019, i.e. The Halley Academy, Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School and The Hundred of Hoo Academy. In the table that follows, green colour coding indicates where results are the same or better than a year ago. It should be noted that 7 of LAT’s 10 secondary academies receiving results this year are non-selective schools in Kent and Medway where roughly 30% of the highest attaining pupils attend grammar school from the age of 11. LAT consolidated GCSE results LAT 2019 LAT 2019 National LAT 2018 (Provisional) (Provisional) 2018 Actual Equivalent All LAT Academies 9-4 English and Maths 59 53 60 62 9-5 English and Maths 40 29 31 36 Attainment 8 45 41 42 43 The Trust is responsible for ten secondary academies receiving Our students and staff have worked tremendously hard this results this year across Kent, Medway and South-East London. year to achieve these improvements against a backdrop of Seven of these ten academies are non-selective schools in ever tougher GCSE examinations. Their efforts have been justly Kent and Medway where 30% of the top-performing students rewarded. We are now looking forward to students returning attend grammar school from age eleven.
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