This week we have much to celebrate across our Trust family of schools. Firstly, to everyone celebrating Eid this week, we wish you all; Eid Mubarak. Good health, peace, prosperity and happiness to everyone in our community. 

We are also celebrating the success of Upper Batley High School who visited London last week for the finals of the Modeshift STARS awards. We are absolutely delighted to announce that they won and are now the National Secondary School of the Year 2024/25! Well done to Miss Woods and the UBHS team. The learners were absolutely superb and a real credit to their school, and our community. Keeping everyone safe is a number one priority and their work is superb. 

Finally, we are also celebrating two new schools joining our Trust family from Tuesday 1 April. Purlwell, a Batley infant school, and Hyrstmount, a Batley junior school join us. We are delighted to welcome them to our Trust family and to Team Batley, which continues to go from strength-to-strength in providing a high-quality education for all our young people, and a great place for staff to work.