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Outwood Academy Bydales

Outwood Academy Bydales is a popular and highly regarded 11-16 school in the attractive coastal village of Marske by the Sea, in Redcar and Cleveland in Teesside. It is easily accessible from Teesside, County Durham, Darlington and North Yorkshire. The academy’s facilities provide an excellent learning environment for the young people to thrive. The academy has well-developed relationships with its local parishes, local councillors and neighbouring primary schools.

Outcomes for students are strong; for example, the proportion of students achieving a grade 4 or better in English and mathematics is 86%, with 91% in English and 89% in mathematics at grade 4 or better in 2022. The school is one of the top performing schools in Redcar and Cleveland and is delighted to have received an outstanding judgement in its 2018 Ofsted inspection. Inspectors recognised that “Leaders are ambitious and share a common vision. They have high expectations of each other, staff and pupils.” There is a great deal of pride int he high standards that the school culture promotes. Critically, the excellent focus and engagement of the students allows teachers to teach and students to succeed. This is an exciting time to take up the leadership of the school as it continues its outstanding journey under the current Ofsted framework. Your challenge will be to continually inspire staff and students to be exceptional in all they do.

Further information can be found at www.bydales.outwood.com

Outwood Grange Academies Trust

Outwood Grange Academies Trust is an education charity and not-for-profit sponsor of primary, junior and secondary academies. It is a dynamic organisation, recognised nationally as one of the highest performing family of schools in the North of England, and currently sponsors over 40 schools.

OGAT embrace the opportunity to ensure that all children, irrespective of their starting point, receive an excellent education. It relishes the opportunity to be part of the much-needed regeneration of the areas it works in. The trust are serious about the part it has to play in regenerating the areas it serves by placing an outstanding school at the heart of the community.

The vision is simply to ensure:

• students are always at the forefront of what the Trust does, so it can help them to reach their potential
• all staff strive to be experts in their respective fields
• together, as a trust, it is obsessive about attaining the highest standards, thereby enhancing children’s life-chances.

Quite simply, it wants to be known for placing:

Students first; raising standards and transforming lives.

Further information can be found at www.outwood.com