Happy New Year! I hope you have enjoyed a relaxing Christmas break. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a very happy, healthy, peaceful and prosperous new year. 

Across our Trust family of schools we are excited for what 2025 will bring, and for all that we can achieve together this year.

Our Trust family of schools continues to go from strength to strength with strong outcomes, excellent attendance, high quality teaching, great behaviour for learning and fantastic community work. The brilliant work of our schools has been recognised in a recently published book called, 'Beyond Boundaries' where our schools feature as a case study for leading great SEND provision across a Trust. Our Smart Academy was described as exceptional by Ofsted, and UBHS has been chosen from over 400 entries to become a UK Education Ambassador for language diversity. UBHS is one of only six schools in the UK to partner with Pocketalk, a global leader in translation technology. The Fields community spaces are doing extremely well, and The Fields at Manorfield has been running a wide range of activities, classes and training sessions to benefit our wider community, as well as our learners and their families.

We are the Trust at the heart of the Batley community. Here's to all that we can achieve together in 2025 and beyond.