CEO Blog

• Batley Brilliance

  Mon 28 Apr 2025

  This week we would like to celebrate the Batley Brilliance seen at Healey. Healey School hosted this half term's Batley Breakfast event, and it was great to see so many Members, Trustees, Governors, leaders, colleagues and friends of the school, in attendance. The Headteacher, Mrs Lang, shared her vision for Healey School, outlining the transformational journey the school has been on in recent years, and their exciting plans for future growth and development moving forward.

   

  Learners talked about what they love about Healey School and why, and there was not a dry eye in the house during their sensational singing performance. The children's passion, talent and commitment was inspiring. Visitors were given a tour of the school and the opportunity to see, first-hand, the site developments being undertaken in the school grounds to enrich the outdoor learning experience for children. This not only develops the curriculum, but is also a key part of Healey School's environmental sustainability work. Children learn about growing plants, nurturing living things, and about where food comes from. It was then time for the official grand opening of the brand new, bespoke school pond, as part of the curriculum enrichment work, with Governor Sam Hartley proudly cutting the red ribbon.

   

  Healey School maximises every opportunity for learning both during the school curriculum, the extracurricular visits and experiences, the visitors coming into school for expert coaching, or careers/motivational talks. There are no limits to what children at Healey School can achieve. 

  

• Welcome back

  Tue 22 Apr 2025
  Welcome back! We hope everyone has enjoyed the Easter break and time spent with friends and family. Wishing everyone good health, peace, hope and happiness.

   

  Today we start the summer term, and the last term of this academic year. Time flies by and we have achieved so many great things this year across our Trust family of schools. As well as welcoming in the new term, we welcome two new schools to our Trust family. Purlwell Infant and Nursery School and Hyrstmount Junior School have now joined our Trust. We welcome staff and learners to our team and families to our Trust community. We now employ over 750 adults across our schools, and serve over 4,500 children. From 2 year olds who join our nursery provision and start their educational journey with us, to the 18 and 19 year olds in our sixth form, as well as the adults who train to teach with us in our Yorkshire Rose Teaching Partnership.

   

  In addition, we have our two community centres each called 'The Fields' - one based at Manorfield Infant School, and one based at Field Lane School. These community centres are where we offer classes, activities, training and support to families and individuals all across our community. We are a major employer in Batley, focused on improving the life chances of young people in our local area by delivering a great education. 

   

  Batley is filled with brilliance and we cannot wait to share more of that with you in these weekly blogs throughout the term ahead. The fantastic work in our schools has been recognised nationally. At Batley Girls' High School we have the CDI UK Careers Leader of the year 2024. Careers is the golden thread of the curriculum in all our schools and great careers education permeates every area of our work. Upper Batley High School was recently awarded Modeshift STARS Secondary School of the Year for their superb work on road safety and environmental sustainability. They received their award at a prestigious event in London and we congratulate the whole community on their hard work and huge success. Congratulations also goes to Field Lane who recently became a Neurodiversity Champion School. It is inspiring to see both colleagues and parents/carers embracing the journey and working together to learn more about neurodiversity - it truly reflects the spirit of unity and progress. 

   

  It is going to be a fantastic term ahead, filled with many successes and achievements for all.