Our Trust family of schools have been celebrating over the past week. Our new Trust-wide attendance strategy, launched in September 2023, is having a hugely positive impact with attendance improving across all our schools and many schools winning attendance awards for their success. Every Day Counts, so reducing lost learning days by reducing absence from school is essential in maximising young people's outcomes. We thank our whole community for their hard work on securing high attendance for all.   Many of our families have also been celebrating Eid, and we wish our whole community good health, peace and happiness this week and always.    Our family of schools are also continuing to promote careers' education because high attendance, brings high achievement, and with a great education our young people are in the driving seat for an exciting future ahead of them. 

Welcome back; I hope you have all enjoyed a relaxing Easter break and spent time with family and friends. Easter is a time of hope, renewal and a brighter future. To everyone in our community celebrating Eid this week, we wish you Eid Mubarak, and we wish our whole community good health, peace and happiness.   This week sees the start of the summer term in our schools and the last 15 weeks of this academic year. Our learners have been working hard to prepare for their forthcoming examinations, with many of them attending master classes over the school holiday period. We praise them all for their hard work, dedication and commitment to securing a bright future. Education is the ticket to every young person's further education, employment or training; and to all our learners, regardless of their background or starting point, securing a job that they love and can thrive in. Here's to a great term ahead with everyone succeeding and achieving together.    "Education does not transform the world. Education changes people. People change the world."  - Paulo Freire.