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Message from Dan Thomas.

Welcome to our ﬁnal newsletter of the year. There has been so much to celebrate across our schools, with some of them highlighted here, including our ﬁrst art exhibition which forms part of our Trust Premium offer.

TLP Art Exhibition.

CEO, The Learning Partnership

I would like to thank every single person involved with our schools for the dedication you have shown this year to our young people.

As part of our TLP Trust Premium we have launched our ﬁrst art exhibition - featuring work from schools across the trust – it is now open to the public in a gallery space in Crewe town centre. On display are almost 300 pieces of artwork from pupils in nursery through to Year 12 A Level students.

On the ﬁrst weekend over 400 people visited the exhibition and a VIP viewing event on the 17th July will see local MP Connor Naismith attend and Mayor of Crewe, Councillor Sally Graham.

The artwork was also assessed by three local artists with an award for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each school year group and all participating artists have had the opportunity to attend the exhibition through arranged school visits.

Kate Baddeley DCEO Education

“This exhibition represents the culmination of months of dedication and creativity. The quality of work on display—from our youngest nursery pupils to our Sixth Form pupils — is truly outstanding. We are incredibly proud of what our students have accomplished. A heartfelt thank you to all the art leads, whose hard work and support made this

The exhibition will be open until Wednesday 30th July @ Crewe Makes ArtSpace, The Market Shopping Centre, Victoria Street, Crewe, CW1 2NG. Mon & Weds 10am - 2pm, Sat 11am - 2pm.

Education.

INSET Day

On the 11th July, staff across the trust came together to focus on Reading. Our Disadvantaged Strategy outlines the importance of all pupils being able to access the curriculum and how we plan to address this by embedding a three-tiered aligned approach across our schools (building on current practice) to the teaching of Reading.

The sessions primary and secondary colleagues attended, delivered by both school based practitioners and members of the central team, explored how we can build on our ‘Universal Offer’ for all, through: developing our explicit teaching of ﬂuency further in primary classrooms; ensuring that any 1:1 reading undertaken with identiﬁed pupils is meaningful; ensuring all secondary teaching and support staff are aware of the key strategies to support pupils outlined in the new ‘DFE Reading Materials’ and upskilling staff who will be delivering our new KS3 Reading Curriculum from September 2025. This is a key piece of work moving into the next academic year and the trust INSET gave us the perfect platform to launch it!

Attendance

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, attendance continues to be a real challenge for schools. We have seen a rise in the numbers of persistently and severely absent pupils and an increase in pupils who are not attending school because they are struggling with their social, emotional and mental health. This is particularly prevalent within our disadvantaged cohort.

Attendance leads in schools have been working collaboratively to co-construct our aligned approach to ensure all of our pupils’ display ‘every day’ behaviours in terms of attendance and that we are best equipped to support pupils and families, where this is a challenge. Work next year will focus on how we create a culture of ‘belonging’ across our organisation, which the most recent research suggests is key to encouraging pupils in wanting to come to school. Every member of staff has a role to play in this and just like safeguarding, we believe attendance is the ‘responsibility of all’.

Governance Conference 2025 at The Learning Partnership.

We held our annual Governance Conference on 14th June at Crewe UTC, attended by over 40 school governors, trustees, members, headteachers and directors. The event was a great opportunity for governors to meet colleagues from all levels of governance across the trust. Following a welcome presentation from our CEO Dan Thomas and Chair of Trustees David Wootton, we ran a variety of workshops including Exclusion Panels, Supporting New Governors and School Performance Data. Thank you to all those who attended this event and to all our governors for volunteering their time in support of our schools throughout the year.

Dr Allan Howells, Director of Quality commented; “We were delighted to be able to bring so many of our volunteers together for a morning, providing a structured opportunity to meet, connect and share ideas and experiences. We value the important contributions that our governors make, all done in a voluntary capacity, and the impact this has on improving the life prospects of our pupils. However, the value of the day is best summed up by some of our governors…”

“It was extremely useful to be given the opportunity for experienced governors to share their experiences of the role both within sessions and during break times.”

“All of the workshops I attended were excellent. The presenters were knowledgeable and their presentation prompts created a lot of opportunity for thought provoking discussion and challenge.”

“The new governor session was very informative and engaging. It was a great session.”

Schools News.

SWS Teacher Wins National Award.

Sara Randle, Head of Food at Sir William Stanier School, has been named Food Educator of the Year at the 2025 Jamie Oliver Good School Food Awards, recognising her exceptional work in turning food education into a powerful, hands-on experience for every student and much of the community too.

Click here to read the Jamie Oliver article: www.jamieoliver.com/schoolfo odawards/winner/sara-randle/

Sara’s impact runs deep and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. She was nominated not just by colleagues, but by her own family and local MP Connor Naismith, who praised her unwavering commitment to building conﬁdence, community and healthy habits through food. Over the past 25 years, Sara has created a school-wide culture where food brings people together, inspires careers, builds conﬁdence, and offers real-life skills that last far beyond the classroom. Congratulations Sara!

SIR WILLIAM STANIER SCHOOL

Crewe UTC Female Engineers' Plinth Honours Ada Nield.

A blue plaque has been unveiled by the Mayor of Crewe, Councillor Sally Graham and students from Crewe UTC to commemorate the suffragist and women’s rights campaigner, Ada Nield Chew. The plaque has been installed on a beautiful custom-made plinth, that an all-female student team from UTC were responsible for designing and project managing.

The plinth design of a bobbin and needle represents Ada’s position as a tailor at Compton’s Clothing Factory in the 1890s. The funding, design, production and installation of this plaque is thanks to a collaborative project with Crewe Town Council, Crewe UTC, South Cheshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Area Welding Services Ltd. Will Chitty, Principal at UTC says “It is wonderful that the students will be able to lay claim to an important landmark in our town for years to come. "

Click here to read BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c wyqql079n6o

CREWE ENGINEERING & DESIGN UTC

VE Day

Dove Bank Primary School had a great day celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day. They shared songs from the 1940s, dressed up wearing red, white and blue, had a picnic lunch, and were lucky enough to be visited from a serving member of the RAF!

DOVE BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL

Egerton Primary's VE Day celebrations included a teachers' hokey cokey and class congas! They finished off with a cake, dancing and a party on the field. Thanks to Multiflex School Sports for leading the afternoon.

EGERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

OPAL at Shavington Primary.

Shavington Primary School has implemented the Outdoor Play And Learning (OPAL) progamme, extending their play offer at lunchtimes so that children from nursery to Year 6 have access to all the grounds. Play facilities include trees for climbing, a mud kitchen, digging area, den building, a Ninja warrior course, bikes, scooters, quiet areas and a dressing up area. The impact of this project has reduced playtime fall-outs and injuries, even with increasing risky play. Parents also report that children talk excitedly about the project at home.

SHAVINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

Year 6 Graduation Challenge Ceremony.

On 9th July Daven Primary School had their ﬁrst Graduation Challenge ceremony at Congleton Town Hall. In order to graduate, Year 6 pupils had to complete a range of challenges in addition to the National Curriculum. Jenny Gosling, Headteacher explains "This is to enable our pupils to become brave, kind and curious learners with a drive to conquer new experiences and challenges. The pupils challenged themselves in ways to exhibit these behaviours, all of which were shared and celebrated during the ceremony."

DAVEN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Newly-built Learning Space at Wheelock.

The Nest (named by their Year 5 and 6 children) is a purpose-built separate building for upper Key Stage 2. The new building has four bright classrooms, two intervention spaces, toilets and a spacious cloakroom area, and gives their older pupils a sense of maturity and ownership over their learning. Alongside the building is a garden area that pupils have been fundraising for, to help bring it to life with more ﬂowers and shrubs.

WHEELOCK PRIMARY SCHOOL

Connor Naismith, MP for Crewe and Nantwich, visited Sir William Stanier School to take part in a food lesson with students and teacher, Sara Randle, as part of Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food scheme. He praised the school's efforts to ensure young people leave school with the knowledge they need to live healthier lives.

SIR WILLIAM STANIER SCHOOL

One Month - Two Universities.

Leighton

The Oaks Academy has introduced students in Year 10 to what university life might be like. Recent trips included exploring different courses, campus life and taking part in some eye-opening critical thinking and problem-solving workshops at Chester University. They also took part in an Academic Chemistry Taster Session at Keele and were 'wowed' by their Stardome Planetarium and Observatory experience.

THE OAKS ACADEMY

pupils dream big about STEM.

Year 5 pupils at Leighton Academy have taken part in The Dream Big initiative from Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Healthier Futures team. Pupils took part in activities relating to health, engineering, enterprise and construction. Sam Thompson, Principal at Leighton Academy says “The whole event was well-organised and I would love to roll this out to other year groups because of the beneﬁts it would bring to all the children.”

Leighton Academy

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