We have so much to celebrate across our Trust family of schools this week. Myself and Rajinder, our brilliant Trust SEND and Safeguarding Lead were asked by Optimum Education to speak at a national conference in Manchester last week to share the great work being undertaken across our Trust family of schools on ensuring we always deliver a first-class education for all learners, including those with SEND.    Field Lane held their first ever Iftar event and the school hall was absolutely packed with family and friends of the school. The children were excellent, and very confident in delivering superb performances; our learners in Reception were truly excellent. A wonderful evening was had by all, and this was a great precursor to Eid celebrations all across our community this weekend.   Batley Girls' High School then achieved national success with Afeefah competing in the Historical Association's national finals of the Great Debate. Afeefah was awarded a special commendation award. She came in the top 4 of 21. She was absolutely brilliant and will be sent a certificate and appear on the Historical Association's website. We are all incredibly proud of Afeefah and she is a winner in our eyes. Well done, Afeefah!

This week we have so much to celebrate across our Trust family of schools. We have excellent attendance with our whole community demonstrating the importance of High Attendance = High Achievement. Thank you to all parents/carers who ensure their child attends school each and every day.   Batley Girls' High School are launching a superb new framework all about Belonging In Batley. This work is based on educational research, and evidence-informed practice and is all about how a fantastic curriculum, coupled with engaging enrichment experiences supports young people to thrive academically and personally. Watch this space for further details in the coming weeks.   Myself and our Trust SEND lead are speaking at a national conference in Manchester on Thursday about how to deliver great SEND provision across a Trust family of schools. We are delighted to share our work in Batley more widely across the sector.    Then, at the end of the week many members of our school and local community will be celebrating Eid. Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating and we wish our whole community good health, peace and happiness this week and always.