WELCOME

Hello! Welcome to the first edition of our brand new Inspire Magazine, where we will be recapping on all the brilliant things that have happened in Autumn Term 1, Autumn Term 2 and Spring Term 1 across our trust and the schools we very proudly sponsor.

At the start of this academic year we made our Eco-Commitment in support of the Department of Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, pledging to reduce our energy consumption by 20% across the entirety of our trust. I am delighted to say we are currently hitting this target and I am so proud of how our staff and students have embraced this, driving this change through the implementation of a number of forward-thinking initiatives.

We’ve also been lucky enough to witness a number of sell-out performances, with our students performing everything from ‘Annie’ and ‘Matilda’, through to ‘Sister Act’ and ‘We Will Rock You’, as well as us hosting our first in-person Carol Service since Covid.

It has also been a year of growth; we’ve continued championing music and sport with the number of pupil premium students taking up music tuition rising by over 150% and the number of trust-wide sporting events increasing from six to nine!

Our trust has grown too! In September we opened the doors to our brand new sixth form - Sir Isaac Newton East, based at the brilliant Great Yarmouth Charter Academy and we’re looking forward to its first set of A-Level results next year. Two Thetford-based schools - Diamond Academy and Queensway Infant Academy and Nursery also joined our trust - two fantastic new additions which will allow us to provide top-quality education to the children of Thetford from 3 years old right up until they are 19. Finally, we were also awarded the opportunity to open a new Free School in Cringleford, with its building works currently underway.

This growth is a testament to our excellent staff and the fantastic outcomes both they and our students have achieved, with us not only bucking trends nationally seeing Maths, Reading and Writing exceed national averages across our primaries, but our KS4 and KS5 provision being ranked in the top 10% in the country too!

I hope you can take the time to celebrate these achievements (and many others) throughout this magazine with us - we’re already looking forward to the next edition.

Best,

Gareth Stevens, CEO, Inspiration Trust