Collaboratively Unlocking Potential

Windsor Academy Trust is a family of 1,000 staff collectively serving 7,000 young people across the West Midlands. We are currently nine schools: four secondary and five primary schools in close geographic proximity allowing for strong and meaningful collaboration.

In September 2023, Windsor Olympus Academy, a brand new secondary Free School in Winson Green will also open.

We are incredibly proud of each and every school in the WAT family. Each brings something unique and each is supported to improve, including the very best.

Academic and Personal Potential

All students get a great education that unlocks their academic and personal potential. This comes from a deeply collaborative, researchbased and innovative approach to the quality of education. Students also have many opportunities to come together across the WAT family to engage in activities that develop them academically and personally.

Over the last 12 months, this has included student leadership events, sustainability summits, sports, arts, dance and cultural capital building events, ‘Operation Smash It’ for year 11, subject challenges, debates and events and national and international visits.

WAT Primary Games

In September, 120 children from across Windsor Academy Trust’s five primary schools came together to compete in the WAT Primary Games at Aldersley Stadium in Wolverhampton. Children took part in hockey and tag rugby throughout the morning, before an afternoon of athletics. The sports chosen were inspired by the Commonwealth Games, given the way the Birmingham Games had captured our imaginations earlier in the summer. Year 9 sports leaders from Cheslyn Hay Academy supported the primary school pupils throughout the day in refereeing, score keeping, judging, and presenting medals. Congratulations to Colley Lane Primary Academy who finished the day on 169 points fighting off the challenge from our Walsall Schools Rivers Primary Academy and Goldsmith Primary Academy who finished in second and third respectively.

Student Senate and Student Leadership

Our Student Senate is made up of 100 student leaders from second and third year upwards across our family of schools. The Senate was created to further our mission of unlocking academic and personal potential by empowering students to become self-regulating, take responsibility for themselves and others as contributing citizens.

The Senate provides extraordinary enrichment experiences that help students become the best learners and best people they can be. It is a place for students to express their voice, to take action and through their leadership to positively impact the Windsor Academy Trust family, the wider community and the planet.

Student engagement opportunities, such as the Senate, empower our students to speak about issues that are important to them and influence decision making. Our Student Senate demonstrates to students that their voices and opinions matter and that they can help shape the future. For example, the Senate is playing a critical role in sustainability development across our family of schools.

The WAT Pledge

The WAT Pledge was developed by our Student Senate. It is our promise to students that they will gain key personal development experiences and accomplishments before leaving school. We have 11 pledges in primary and 12 pledges in secondary. Alongside a huge range of extracurricular activities, the pledge expands learning beyond the classroom, builds cultural capital and helps students unlock their academic and personal potential.