1. ‪ Parent Consultation Meeting 1 st March 2016

2. Welcome and thank you for coming today

3. Background Haworth Primary School is currently a Local Authority maintained school. The school was judged as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in June 2015. It is proposed that Haworth will convert to an academy, within a Multi Academy Trust, alongside Oakworth and Lees primary schools. This is very different to previous our previous consultation with Focus Trust. It would mean we would not be a Local Authority maintained school.

4. Academies in England School landscape is changing and the demand to convert to academy status is growing rapidly The role of the LA is changing, many struggling to provide the level of support and challenge previously offered Schools are increasingly providing this support and challenge for each other through formal and informal partnership and collaboration. As at November 2015 (England): 65% of secondary schools 18% of primaries 2010 203 academies 2013 2,886 academies 2015 5028 academies

5. What will be the benefits?  Greater control of budgets  Freedom in delivery of curriculum  Strong collaboration / shared accountability and shared visions  School leaders and teachers can share thinking and planning  Governors can share strategic thinking, combine skills and support each other  School leaders, teachers and other staff can be shared across the schools  MAT can find it easier to find and fund specialist expertise  Shared professional development  Economies of scale and collective purchasing

6. What will stay the same?  The school name and uniform will stay the same  There will be no change to arrangements relating to admissions.  All existing pupils will transfer to the academy, unless parents choose otherwise.  The school will remain a community school.  There will be no change to arrangements relating to special educational needs.  The school will still have its own governing body with representation from parents/carers and staff, as now.  The school will still buy some services from Bradford Council.

7. What will stay the same?  The school will still offer a quality, broad and balanced curriculum and the distinctive ethos will remain  All existing staff transfer to the academy.  We will be subject to the law on employment, equality, admissions and special educational needs.  We will follow the same rules about pupil exclusion.  We will still be inspected by Ofsted.  We are subject to freedom of information.

8. What will change?  There will be an overarching Multi Academy Trust Board to manage more strategic issues across the schools in the MAT. This would replace the Local Authority for accountability to the DFE  The MAT will be called The Bronte Academy Trust  As a charitable company, the MAT has articles of association, legal documents that set out the governance composition and procedures for the Trust.

9. The Structure Members - Hands off but significant role. They monitor performance of the trust and hold trustees to account. MAT Board of Trustees - Includes Head Teachers and Chair of Governors, plus others. Have responsibilities around solvency, budgets, risk, personnel, policies. Individual Governing Bodies – remain as we have now. Have responsibilities around learning and teaching, curriculum and standards, holding the headteacher and senior leaders to account.

10. Process to becoming a MAT… 1.Governing Body pass resolution to convert (Completed) 2.Application made to DfE with proposals (Completed) 3.Consultation process with parents / carers and all interested parties (now) 4.Academy application approved and Academy Order provided by the DFE – conversion grant provided 5.Conversion process starts (due diligence, legal work) 6.Finalise Governance documents, resolve issues, sort bank accounts, new insurance etc) 7.Sign Funding agreement – N.B. Schools can withdraw their application up to this point in the process. 8.Conversion complete – open as anAcademy (Target date – July 2016).