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Academic Excellence, Amazing Experience

Trinity Academy Barnsley is proposed to open in September 2021. It will be an inclusive, non-selective, co-educational 11-16 Church of England secondary school and will open initially with a year 7 intake, and a PAN of 180, growing each year to a capacity of 900. It will welcome pupils of all abilities, all faiths and no faith and from all backgrounds. Its admission policy will not include any faith-based criteria. This reflects the Trust’s commitment to inclusivity and serving the local community, providing an excellent education for all which is rooted in Christian values but in no way restricted to those of faith. The need for the academy has come from an identified shortfall in secondary school places in coming years alongside further planned housing developments.

There will be a specialism in STEM alongside a focus on raising levels of literacy. The broad and balanced curriculum will be ambitious, inspirational and contextualised, equipping pupils for local employment as well as higher academic study.

Core values of empathy, honesty, respect and responsibility will underpin all of the school’s work.

Organisation culture

Student experience

There is lots of further information available at https://barnsley.trinitymat.org/

Trinity Multi-Academy Trust

In 2010, when Trinity Academy Halifax (TAH) opened in Calderdale, its mission was to address more than a decade of underperformance at the secondary school level. It has delivered, being rated as ‘outstanding’ twice and enabling its students to continue to achieve results that will transform their lives.

In the intervening period, TAH has also established the Trinity Teaching School Alliance, the West Yorkshire Maths Hub and White Rose Maths. The trusts collaborative work through these initiatives has meant developing partnerships with thousands of other schools, both nationally and internationally.

Trinity Multi-Academy Trust was established in 2015. It currently contains six institutions, across the primary, secondary and post-16 phases, and operates across two local authorities.

Later this year, the Trust also welcomes Sowerby Village CE (VC) Primary School, the third primary partner within the Trinity family. The Trust will expand to two further local authorities with the opening of Trinity Academy Barnsley and Trinity Academy Leeds.

The Trust also has a significant external partnership, as mentioned above. What is worth emphasising is that the Trinity Teaching School Alliance also contains a thriving School Direct recruitment arm, ensuring the best talent is identified and appointed to its schools.

Trinity MAT Ethos

The ethos of the MAT is simple – to make a positive difference to the lives of as many young people as possible. This ‘positive difference’ at each of the schools, can be seen on the impact document available on this site.

Trinity MAT is Church of England MAT, and as the admissions policy of its founding academy, is open to those of all faiths and none.

The Trust Improvement Plan (2019-2022) will allow it to confidently approach the next stage in the journey. It has been created by a range of key stakeholders who work across the schools in a variety of roles. The plan has four key themes, all based around the idea of the development of:

• People
• Systems
• Organisation
• Partnerships

These identified areas will permeate through all ideology, conversations and improvement planning across all of the schools. A rationale of why those four key areas are so important is included in the ‘Improvement Rationale’ document on this site – it was written by trust leaders, the group that the Principal of TAB will join.

Vision

• All schools expected to actively support each other and to share best practice for the benefit of all;
• Each school encouraged to celebrate its distinctive identity within the trust community;
• Commitment to providing quality-assured services to keep the schools legal, financially robust and continually improving.

There is lots of further information available at https://trinitymat.org/