The not - for - profit company specialises in primary academies and says it is «building a thriving community of schools including converter and
sponsored primary academies».
Test results in
sponsored primary academies improve at more than double the rate of non-academies and results for free school meals improve faster in those schools, the department said.
Not exact matches
In 2011 it decided to
sponsor a failing Church of England
primary school, now called Tudor Grange Primary Academy St James, after being approached by the Diocese of Birm
primary school, now called Tudor Grange
Primary Academy St James, after being approached by the Diocese of Birm
Primary Academy St James, after being approached by the Diocese of Birmingham.
The IAA is rooted in the
sponsored Academy movement but is now attracting increasing numbers of like - minded converters,
primary, special and free schools.
Since September 2010, 2,949
Primary Schools have become
academies, 943 of which are «
sponsored academies» — with
sponsors including businesses, universities, other schools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the
academy trust.
The
academy opened in a disadvantaged part of western Newcastle in 2008, it is a
sponsored academy, supported by the Laidlaw Schools Trust, and has since become an all ‑ through school, with an on - site
primary.
Primary progress Littleworth Grange
Primary Academy, Barnsley, was presented the Outstanding Progress Award (
Primary),
sponsored by DOHR.
«In March it was decided that the additional
primary school places to serve the developments should be provided in the form of a new Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy s
primary school places to serve the developments should be provided in the form of a new
Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy s
Primary Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an academy s
Academy from September 2018 and, as a result, work should commence to secure an
academy s
academy sponsor.
It set up an
academy trust to
sponsor Messing
Primary School, which was in special measures at the time.
SEN Inclusion Award
sponsored by nasen Winner: Marine
Academy Primary, Plymouth Commended: Commonweal School, Swindon St James CE
Primary School, Northampton Swanwick Hall School, Derbyshire
Winner: Ormiston
Academies Trust Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) is a not - for - profit multi-academy trust, sponsoring over 31 primary and secondary academies, si
Academies Trust Ormiston
Academies Trust (OAT) is a not - for - profit multi-academy trust, sponsoring over 31 primary and secondary academies, si
Academies Trust (OAT) is a not - for - profit multi-academy trust,
sponsoring over 31
primary and secondary
academies, si
academies, since 2008.
As National Director for Strategy and Quality Improvement for Ormiston
Academies Trust (OAT)-- which has sponsored academies since 2009, and currently has 36 academies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate go
Academies Trust (OAT)-- which has
sponsored academies since 2009, and currently has 36 academies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate go
academies since 2009, and currently has 36
academies (30 secondary, five primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate go
academies (30 secondary, five
primary, and one all - through special school)-- Amelia will be responsible for OAT's overall policy and planning work, its fundraising strategy and its corporate governance.
A spokesperson added: «The numbers for local authority schools do not include the hundreds of inadequate council
primaries that closed to become
sponsored academies, by their very definition these would include the worst performing schools.
The figures for
primary schools make for similar reading, with eight per cent of
sponsored academies that were inadequate before converting getting another inadequate in their first Ofsted inspection.
Two Coventry
primary schools, Ernesford Grange Community Academy and Radford Primary Academy, also changed their sponsor just eight months after conv
primary schools, Ernesford Grange Community
Academy and Radford
Primary Academy, also changed their sponsor just eight months after conv
Primary Academy, also changed their
sponsor just eight months after converting.
As part of the process of securing a positive new future for Jerounds
Primary School, the National Education Trust (NETAT) has been proposed as the new
sponsor for the school as it changes from being run by Essex County Council to becoming a new
academy.
Run by the
academy sponsoring chain ARK, this
primary school will open on a temporary site in the Queen's Park area of north Westminster in September.
This rises to 3.9 per cent in
primary academy convertor schools, 5.3 per cent in
sponsor - led
primary academies and 12.5 per cent in
primary free schools.
There are now a few high - profile projects to create new boarding provision: Holyport College,
sponsored by Eton College, is due to open in September 2014; Durand
Academy, currently a
primary and middle school in Lambeth, has plans for a boarding school in Sussex for pupils 13 - 18, although this is facing obstacles in the planning process and criticism from the chairman of the SBSA.
Ofsted's annual report shows more than a third of
sponsored academies, both
primary and secondary, are currently rated as requiring improvement, a higher proportion than local authority schools.
Woodford
Primary School in Plymouth waited almost a year before a
sponsor could be found that was «acceptable» to the government, while Gloucestershire council said it had been working hard with its RSC, but that it lacked suitable
academy sponsors in the area.
Free schools, both
primary and secondary, are set up by
academy sponsors, charities, teachers and groups of parents, and operate outside local authority control.
Sandown Bay
Academy, one of just eight secondary schools on the Isle of Wight, will now either be taken on by a new sponsor or merge with the local Bay Church of England Primary School to become an all - through academy, the BBC has re
Academy, one of just eight secondary schools on the Isle of Wight, will now either be taken on by a new
sponsor or merge with the local Bay Church of England
Primary School to become an all - through
academy, the BBC has re
academy, the BBC has reported.
Roy has played a key part in establishing NET as an
academy sponsor in 2012 and in setting up the NET
Academies Trust, which now oversees 6
primary schools in England.
The Local Schools Network says that pupils» results improved by 6.4 % more in non-academy
primary schools than in similar
sponsored academies between 2014 and 2015.
Pimlico
Primary is
sponsored by Future
Academies, a charity founded by Lord Nash and his wife Caroline.
The North Central Ohio Educational Service Center (the school's
sponsor) may close Imagine Columbus
Primary Academy.
New research by PwC published last weekend reveals that only three of the biggest
academy chains has a positive value - added rating, whilst just one of the 26 biggest
primary sponsors achieves results above the national average.
The results indicate, for both
primary and secondary schools, that there were marginal positive differences in performance between Local Authority schools and «
sponsored» and «converter»
academies with comparable demographics and starting points.
Academy presumption competition to
sponsor a new 630 place (3 FE)
primary school on Rochdale Road, Oldham.
2015 results show that
primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years
Ahead of the National
Primary School Offer Day new figures reveal that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into
sponsored academies - where education experts and leading headteachers take over the running of the school.