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Healing Multi-Academy Trust

Newsletter Issue 1 October 2018

2018 Results

2018 saw some fantastic results in all of the Trust schools.

Key Stage 2

The overall percentage of pupils in our schools that achieved the combined expected standard rose from

72% in 2017 to 78%. This is a superb achievement and is the result of a lot of hard work from staff and pupils.

Thank you for the support from all of our schools and The Humber Teaching School for the significant impact on the

percentage of pupils achieving the combined expected standard in the three schools joining our Trust from the Link

Education Trust. This figure rose from 35% to 43%.

Key Stage 4

GCSE exams have seen major changes over the last two years with more rigorous exams and grades moving away from

the traditional A*-G grades to a new 9 to 1 grading system. Despite these changes, the Year 11 results were superb.

WELL DONE to all staff and pupils.

Welcome to Healing Multi-Academy Trust’s first newsletter.

There are a plethora of fantastic events, opportunities and successes to celebrate in all the schools in our Trust every

week. The purpose of this newsletter is to share a very small portion of those events and successes.

A warm welcome to our new Senior Leaders

As the newly appointed full time CEO, I would like to wish a warm welcome to Leaders in new roles this term:

Anna Coney Executive Headteacher across the three new Academies

Becky Wakefield Headteacher at Healing Primary School

Andrea Norman Headteacher at Great Coates Primary School

Lynn Deans Deputy Headteacher at Great Coates Primary School

Michelle Dewland Appointed as the substantive Principal of Healing School

Healing Multi-Academy Trust Update

Every year each Multi-Academy Trust has a review meeting with the Regional School Commissioner (RSC). Our review

took place in Sheffield on the 5th October. The RSC was very impressed with the progress and outcomes achieved in

every one of our schools and also commented on the positive impact we have already had on the three schools joining

our Trust in November (Hartsholme Academy, St Giles Academy and Woodlands Academy).

In order to ensure the Trust continues to operate with our current high standards, we are currently seeking new

Trustees with three specific skill sets to compliment the existing MAT Board. The skills required are ‘Business and

Commerce Management’, ‘ Educational Expertise’ and ‘Real Estate and Property Management’.

Mark Knapton C E O

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Healing Primary School

Tom Clarke was awarded the Healing Multi-Academy Trust

award for Overall Academic Achievement. We are incredibly

proud of Tom, and wish him every success as he continues

his educational journey at Healing School.

Healing School

The Trustees ‘Pupil Progress’ Award for

the Year 11 pupil who made the most

progress was won by Jessica Easter.

Great Coates Primary School

Elivia Frampton, Holly-Ann Hardy, Ellie Parker, Charlie

Holmes, Sophie Martin, Evan Hutchinson and Jasmine

Crow were all chosen to receive a Trust medal by their

class teachers to recognise the pupils who most embod-

ied the school values.

Trust Awards

William Barcroft Junior School

The selection of Red team members collecting their award from the

HMAT Trustees for Overall Achievement in Sport.

William Barcroft Junior School

Overall team winners for academic achievement went to Blue team.

William Barcroft Junior School

Well done to Green team for winning the HMAT trustees award for outstanding

behaviour over the year

This page celebrates the pupils who won the

new “Trust Award” in each school.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS.

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Over the past few years at William Barcroft, we have really tried to push our sports and PE provision in order to make it the best it can possibly be for our children. In recognition of this, this year, we are incredibly proud to have been awarded a School Games Mark Sil-ver Award for our efforts - building on our previous Bronze Award. This is a nationally-recognised award backed by organisations such as the British Olympic Team and the Youth Sport Trust, which awards schools for showing a commitment to sport. In order to receive our award, we had to meet a number of criteria. To achieve this, we offered a range of inter-school competitions, intra-school competitions and sports clubs to our children. Additionally, we took part in gifted and talented PE workshops, ensured that our least active children were given opportunities to participate in sport and giving our students the chance to manage, officiate and lead in sports-related activities such as our sports day.

This year, we're going for gold!

Sport

Maths

After year on year improvements in maths at William Barcroft, we have managed to secure more fantastic SATs results within the subject. Consistent, outstanding progress was also achieved in every class, in every year group, with an average of +3.51 for progress made across the whole school. This has been a target for a number of years and has been achieved due to the persistent hard work from all of the staff at William Barcroft. The percentage of pupils, who of which passed at the expected standard in Year 6, was 84.3%. This is 11.9% higher than the av-erage for good schools, 8.8% higher than the average for outstanding schools and 8.8% higher than the national average. We are particularly proud of this due to our high deprivation and pupil premium numbers. In addition to this, we also obtained our highest percentage for children achieving the higher standard since the implementation of the new curriculum. A fantastic 30.1% of our pu-pils achieved the higher standard in maths this year. This is 9.0% more than the average for good schools, 2.1% more than the aver-age for outstanding schools and 6.5% higher than the national average.

William Barcroft

Junior School

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Our summer production of ‘We have a dream’

was thoroughly enjoyed by all. It was wonderful to see the children so incredibly driven and

motivated to succeed. All of the children grew in confidence and had a fabulous time. It was

amazing to see them shine on stage and see how much they impressed the rest of the school and

their parents: such a good feeling for them. We are well underway with preparations for our next production in December: the children are

working hard in their own time on dances, routines and songs. We can’t wait to see the

children on stage again.

Drama

William Barcroft

Junior School

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Mrs Woods’

Leaving Day

After 6 years’ service at Healing Primary

School, Mrs Wood retired In July 2018.

The pupils, staff and governors at HPS

recognised her dedication to the school,

and in thanks for her excellent service

named the new outdoor learning area

‘The Wood Barn’. Mrs Wood’s retirement

was celebrated via a staff pantomime,

performed for the pupils and governors.

Tag Rugby

On 27th September, Healing Primary School

entered an inter-school tag rugby competi-

tion, hosted at Havelock Academy. Both of

our teams worked tirelessly throughout the

competition, and were commended by other

schools for their sportsmanship. One team

made it through to the quarter finals, and our

other team made it to the finals. After a very

close match, we were pronounced the inter-

school cup winners. As the match was so

close, our winning team very kindly gave their

medals to the runners up. We couldn’t be

more proud of them.

Healing Primary

School

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Behaviour

Policy

School Values A new improved Behaviour Policy

has been put into practice across

the school

This new policy was based on

extensive training the whole school

received from ‘The Nurture Lady’

around Social Emotional and

Mental Health of young children

Great Coates Primary School has in-

troduced a new set of school values;

Resilience, Reflection, Respect, Pride

and Aspiration

The introduction of school values is

helping bring the whole school com-

munity together

Maths

The standards that have been attained

and achieved in Maths. Last year were

fantastic!

The children at Great Coates love maths,

the teachers have increased the level of

challenge in lessons and these two factors

have impacted on standards across school

Great Coates

Primary School

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Pupils’ aspirations were recently raised when

three students and an admissions tutor from

Oxford University visited Healing School. Pupils

in Years 9, 10 and 11 were given a Roadshow

presentation by Gemma O’Sullivan, Alice Knapton

and Tim Mallinson.

Oxbridge Schools’ Liaison Officer Katie Osmon

said the aim of the roadshow was to inform

pupils of the benefits of a university education

and, in particular, Oxford and Cambridge. “We

want to raise their aspirations about future

opportunities available and give them confidence

to apply to the top universities” she said.

Gemma, Alice and Tim, all from northern

Lincolnshire, worked with the pupils in small

groups. They explained about student life and

highlighted the opportunities available.

Acting Principal Mrs Michelle Dewland thanked

the Oxbridge team for visiting Healing.

“It’s about encouraging all of our pupils to make

the most of their talents,” she said. “For quite a

number, this will mean attending top universities

in the future.

The roadshow, hopefully, planted seeds that top

universities including Oxford and Cambridge are

not an exclusive club and could be for our pupils.

Healing School -

A Science Academy

Oxbridge Visit

The new academic year has already been filled with

sporting success for Healing School.

Four Year 9 girls won the Lincolnshire Tennis

Tournament in Lincoln. Their success now takes

them to Loughborough University, where they will

represent Lincolnshire in the next round.

This month, our Year 11 boys football team came

from behind to win a fantastic match at

Wintringham Academy. From trailing 2-0, Healing

pulled out all the stops to secure a well deserved

3-2 win.

September saw pupils from all year groups

competing in the Yorkshire County Swimming

Championships in Leeds. The Year 8 boys won gold,

silver and bronze medals for breaststroke and the

individual medley. Four Year 7 pupils also swam

well to set personal bests.

Pupils from Years 8, 10 and 11 were selected to

compete at the English National Swimming

Championships.

Sporting

Achievements

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Quality in Careers Standard

Award

In July, Healing Academy gratefully received the coveted ‘Quality in Careers Standard’ award for

delivering exceptional guidance, opportunities and information to young people.

The Quality in Careers Standard is a key element of the work conducted by the Humber Local

Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

Working in alliance with 4 local authorities, the aim is to raise aspirations and deliver a spectrum

of opportunities and choices to young people. Funded by the Humber LEP, the Deflog VQ trust

and the European social fund, the project is designed for Schools, Academies and further

Education providers in the Humber locality.

The award criteria are assessed using 8 separate standards, which culminate in delivering the

highest standard careers guidance possible to young people.

Assessors were very impressed by the plethora of opportunities pupils at Healing Academy had

access to in the form of work experience, University visits, hosting speakers from local employers

and colleges and holding post 16 careers events. It was also noted how Healing pupils engaged

with the careers information presented to them and conducted themselves in a

mature manner.

Healing School -

A Science Academy