Our Journey
• Our journey started in 2014, when the senior leadership at New College Pontefract used their “outstanding” Ofsted judgement as the platform for sharing that success with a larger number of young people and other educational providers. • We were successful in achieving teaching school status, forming a powerful alliance of partners from early years through to FE. • Re-designating New College Pontefract to an academy and establishing a Multi-Academy Trust enabled us to set up two sister colleges. • Together with the founding college, these colleges are located in areas of educational disadvantage in Doncaster and Bradford, with lower than average rates of attainment, university progression and low aspiration. • We want to provide a model for educational excellence which will enable young people to succeed and progress, transforming their own lives and enriching their communities. • Our small “portfolio” academy Trust’s mission is to replicate the outstanding educational model of the founding college in its sibling colleges in order to have greater and wider impact on the lives of young people and their communities. • In December 2020 the Trust welcomed its first secondary school Wingfield Academy from Rotherham, South Yorkshire which will help develop and will lead the secondary arm of the Trust. Wingfield Academy is located in a similar area of educational disadvantage as the three colleges, so fits the profile and the vision of the Trust and its Board of Directors.
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