Agape Multi-Academy Trust

Educational Standards

Agape Trust spans the age range from 4 to 18. Its staff have extensive experience and success in raising pupil educational outcomes and performance at all levels. Working together through our peer to peer, consultant and leadership networks our aim is to be in the top 10% for progress nationally. Curriculum modelling, development and deployment expertise, together with mapping and resource generation, assists our schools in raising educational outcomes especially for EAL, pupil premium and SEND children.  Strategic leadership support at all levels improves the quality of education for all. Bespoke support targets areas of improvement across any aspects of school provision. Our facilities improvement programme targets capital funding and the skills of our site teams where it is most needed to improve the facilities within our schools. We also provide advice and guidance on admissions policies and strategies.

Culture and Inclusion

Our annual safeguarding reviews, training and audits ensure our schools are providing the best possible care for their children and that safeguarding is embedded throughout each school. Practical advice and guidance on strategies for maximising attendance at school is part of our culture. This, together with support with inclusive behaviour policies, procedures and processes means more children attend school regularly and engage positively with their learning. We assist with recruitment, retraining and retention within our schools.

Leading and Developing People

Continuing Professional Development opportunities for all staff, both to be trained and be the trainer, exist across all our schools. Staff and leaders network to share best practice successes as well as areas for improvement. This training extends to preparation for OfSTED inspections and, for our Church Schools, SIAMS inspections. We aim to be the employer of choice locally. Staff well-being and workload reduction initiatives are key to our development planning. Wellbeing days and weeks, access to BUPA, strategic use of IT to reduce assessment, and an Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme are just some of our successes.

Growing and Developing Our Community

We provide a complete package for any school to join our Trust from initial conversations through to consultations, legals, working with the LA, the Regional Schools Director and the TUPE process. We look to provide development opportunities to staff to widen their professional experience, learning from and with other colleagues both within Agape and beyond. Leadership development is a core part of our offer providing headteachers and senior leaders with opportunities to learn across all aspects of school and system leadership. Governance and Trustee induction and on-going training is a vital part of our of core offer.

Operational Effectiveness

Our Executive Team, together with external partners, provide advice and guidance on all aspects of operational effectiveness and compliance, including policy formulation and implementation. This includes Governance, Legals, Health and Safety, Data Protection, Human Resources, IT, Finance, Budgets, Payroll, Tendering, Contracts and Best Value. We seek to invest our capital resources to improve and expand schools’ facilities together with maximising revenue. We are working to reduce our carbon footprint and reduce energy costs through investment in solar energy capture (PV panels) and battery storage.