1. The Beckfoot Trust Academy Ambassadors Board Development Day 19 September David Horn CEO Beckfoot Trust

2. A Bit about Beckfoot School
Beckfoot is an Co-ed school with 1650 students.
Located in Bradford, West Yorks
We believe in the following:
Every young person has talent
Positive and visible leadership
A collectively owned vision – the ‘absurdly aspirational’. Smash glass ceilings
Students should be leaders and own their learning
An unrelenting focus on teaching and learning
A curriculum personalised and matched to need
Balance up accountability with liberation – we nurture talented educationalists.
We abandon the unnecessary and cherish staff and students

3. A Bit about Beckfoot Trust
The Beckfoot Trust was formed in 2013 and now looks after seven schools with approximately 6400 students cross phase.
We never approach schools to join our Trust
Our Trust is:
Ambitious with a hard edge
Collaborative and inclusive (best idea wins!)
Based on high challenge and high support (Outcomes count)

4. Our Core Purpose
Beckfoot Trust schools create remarkable learning environments in which students expect success because of their ambitious attitude to learning, the challenge provided by staff and the support they receive at home. Top 20% by comparison with similar schools within three years of joining the Trust

5. Growing our Trust For a school to join the Trust:
The RSC must consider the proposal to be beneficial
It must be a Bradford school
Be comprehensive in status and ethos
Be co-educational
Be located within a 20 minute off peak drive-time of Beckfoot School
Actively want to join the Beckfoot Trust
Adopt the Trust Values, Core Purpose, Learner and Organisational principles
Balance the educational and commercial risks of the Trust

6. September 2016 Seven schools and 6,400 students Cross-phase
The Beckfoot Trust
Secondary Schools
Special Schools
Primary Schools
Outstanding
Beckfoot
Hazelbeck
Allerton
Good
Not yet Good
Beckfoot Upper Heaton, Oakbank, Thornton
Heaton
Total 4 1 2

7. Due Diligence – What do you want?
Matching values:
Type of Relationship:

8. The Process School approaches the Trust
Trust speaks to RSC about the opportunity
Trust carries out Due Diligence Stage 1 (private).
Governors pass a Resolution to become an Academy and to join the Beckfoot Trust.
School ‘Registers its Interest’ with DfE.
Trust complete the Due Diligence process Stage 2.
Complete an Application to convert (when the Trust’s due diligence is complete).
Obtain an Academy Order after the DfE due diligence is complete.
Start the TUPE and Commercial Transfer work.

9. Beckfoot Trust Governance
Parents, Students & the Community
Headteacher
Education Committee For School Improvement
(Teaching School)
‘Members’ of The Beckfoot Trust Company
Business Committee for School Improvement
(Central Services)
The Beckfoot Trust Board
RSC
EFA
Ofsted
Compliance Committees (Audit etc.)
Local School Committee
Community
Local School
Central Improvement Team Committees
Trust Governance
Department For Education