Academy

The Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust (LAAT)

OUR TRUST

Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust (LAAT) is a Multi-Academy Trust set up by the Diocese of Lincoln in 2013 to build a mutually supportive family of academies in Greater Lincolnshire. We work together to provide the very best outcomes for all pupils in all of the schools. Today, the Trust is home to 23 schools in Lincolnshire and continues to grow.

DEVELOPING A FIRST-CLASS EDUCATION

The development of education as a lever for improving social mobility and outcomes for all children is at the heart of our Trust’s Education offer. With a strong central Education Team of experienced school leaders with core specialisms, LAAT is able to support, nurture and enrich the offer within our school so that all children benefit. This support is included as part of the offer for all schools at no additional charge.

Whether outcomes and curriculum are excellent or need improving, LAAT, not only has the central expertise to support us, but more importantly, it has the collective strength of all educators within LAAT schools. As well as the central School Development Advisers, the Trust has a team of internal experts based in schools who work as Specialist Subject Advisers and Associate Leads, working directly with individual schools, hubs and through central CPD, to help achieve this.

As Trust schools, we also work with strategic external partners such as LEAD, The English Hub, Read Write Inc., the Geographical Association and STEM to enrich our offer and to ensure that the support for education is strong.

LAAT is proud of its primary outcomes, many of which are above the national average and where they are not, the gap is narrowing significantly and more rapidly than the national picture.

TRAINING

LAAT is dedicated to giving its staff top-notch training opportunities that boost their skills, inspire creativity, and lead to better outcomes for the students we serve. running around 80 different CPD training events for staff each year https://thelaat.co.uk/training/

The Trust also actively supports our employees who want to pursue professional qualifications, such as the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH), which is designed to develop the leadership skills and behaviours needed to be an effective and high-performing headteacher or head of school or apprenticeships across the workforce.

CENTRAL TEAM

Thanks to the LAAT central team we can access a wealth of support services that allow our school’s leadership team to focus on teaching and improving child outcomes, including:

IT: licensing and funding for new devices for pupils and staff
Colleague services team: which help us to appoint and retain the very best staff.
Governance services: to ensure that decision-making is transparent, fair and legally compliant
Full business and operations: to enable us to concentrate on leading teaching and learning.
Procurement of back-office services: including computer systems, waste contracts, insurances, photocopiers
Estates management: to manage capital projects (eg new heating systems, roofs, playgrounds, decoration etc) and oversee buildings compliance, ensuring that our schools are safe and healthy places for learning

IMPROVED STUDENT OUTCOMES

LAAT provides us with unlimited education support – which includes access to 3 Education Development Advisers, a Trust Headteacher to provide additional support as required and a number of associate advisers and subject leads.

Access to the English hub – An organisation which provides CPD, reading audits, etc
An External Maths specialist to support in school as needed

CARE AND SUPPORT

Schools that join LAAT can also feel the care and support that comes from being part of a larger family of schools that share the same principles and values. And like all families we are there for each other during difficult times.

“We genuinely believe that together we can do so much more than we can do alone” Jackie Waters-Dewhurst, LAAT CEO

For more information about LAAT click here www.thelaat.co.uk

For information including Charity trustees’ and members’ names, annual reports, employees whose benefits exceed £100,000, and financial reports, please click here.

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Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust
Ruskington Chestnut Street C Of E Academy
Chestnut Street
Ruskington
Lincolnshire
NG34 9DL
[email protected]

Company Number: 873741 Registered in England and Wales

Vision, Values & Aims

LAAT Vision

Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust has adopted the Lincoln Diocesan vision for Church schools as its own vision. This underlines to all the strong family links between the two separate organisations and supports everyone in their understanding that diocesan schools within LAAT continue to be part of the diocesan family.

The need for pupils to actively engage in Excellence, Exploration and Encouragement underpin LAAT’s belief that all children need to flourish in a creative environment that allows them to become all that God intended.

LAAT is steadfast in its belief that all pupils and members of staff should be supported and challenged to be the best that they can be. We are dedicated to providing an excellent education for pupils in Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. We welcome VA, VC and Community schools into a mutually supportive family, whilst maintaining every schools as a special and unique place.

LAAT Values

We have worked with officers, directors and head teachers to develop an underpinning set of values and supporting expectations as well as an overarching set of principles. The values reflect the LAAT vision as well as the national Church of England Vision for Education.

We have also shared the vision, values, principles and expectations in schools to become embedded in adult practice alongside the schools’ own vision and from there begin to contribute to the opportunities and experiences of our pupils.

LAAT Aims

We will:

Transform the chances of individual pupils
Use the collective strength within the Trust and other schools in the Diocese of Lincoln
Be fully inclusive to all
To support and develop all staff to be the best that they can be
Be sustainable through the expertise within the organisation, through partnership with our current good or better schools and external partners
Bring strength, motivation and purpose through the belief that every child should be enabled to be all that God intended
Be distinctive and unique in character relevant to the context