Achievement through Collaboration (AtC) is a Trust of five strong schools across Blackpool, Blackburn, Wigan, and Lancashire. The Trust is also an accredited ITT provider, operating a network of Teacher Training Hubs across the North-West to deliver high-quality teacher training programme in schools and trusts.
Achievement through Collaboration is a Trust with a purpose! We want our children, our staff and our schools to Achieve, Belong and Collaborate.
CEO Jane Chambers
A Multi Academy Trust is a charity with a single purpose- to advance education for the public benefit.
But, if every Trust has the same single purpose, what is it that sets Achievement through Collaboration apart from other Trusts? What is our promise to our children, staff, parents and communities? How do we ensure that children attending an AtC school are receiving a better education than they would have had should their school not be a member of our Trust?
Achievement through Collaboration is a Trust with a purpose! We want our children, our staff and our schools to Achieve, Belong and Collaborate.
To achieve our purpose, we know there are things we need to get right!
Through a clear definition and articulation of the values and beliefs of Achievement through Collaboration, we’ve built an organisation with children at the heart of everything we do. Our schools have the individuality to make the right choices for their pupils, staff and communities within a culture of collaboration.
Our Trust Board owns the strategic plan, holding the executive team to account to deliver it whilst delegating the correct things to the Local Governing Bodies. LGBs are supported to build their role around the children, parents and staff of their individual school whilst expressing the “we” of the Trust.
Key to maintaining our successful educational standards is a clear trust wide school improvement strategy/plan that meets the needs of every school wherever they are on their journey. Our Trust Wide strategy for capturing the most effective practice and transmitting it between more classrooms is in place and underpinned by a workforce talent management strategy that facilitates staff development and deployment.
A strong central team connects the academies enabling leaders and teachers to concentrate on educational delivery. Achievement through Collaboration is financially stable which enables the strategic allocation of resources that enables standards to be maintained and improvements to be achieved.
We believe that all children, staff and schools benefit from belonging to a family of schools within a strong collaborative multi-academy trust. We are an outward organisation, we embrace innovation and opportunities that benefit our pupils. AtC has invested in staff to build capacity to collaborate with other schools and we are now actively looking to grow further.
If you share our values and are interested in joining one of our schools as a member of staff or your school joining our Trust, we look forward to hearing from you.
Jane Chambers
CEO
Achievement through Collaboration Trust
Our Academies
With lots of excitement and a sprinkle of Christmas magic, Reception poured, stirred and mixed their own reindeer food to light the way for Santa’s reindeer on Christmas Eve! 🦌✨🎅 … See MoreSee Less
Reception A and B had a very special mystery reader on Friday – Josh Simons, the MP for Makerfield! 🤩🎉
A big thank you to Mr. Simons for making reading an unforgettable experience and showing our little learners that every story matters – whether it's in a book or in the community! 📖✨ … See MoreSee Less
Year 4 have been learning about how different foods and drinks can affect the enamel on our teeth. They ate a biscuit and then used mirrors to observe how long the biscuit (sugar) remained on their teeth. 🦷🪥 … See MoreSee Less
Year 4 have been learning about polygons. The children worked together with a partner to create a range of different polygons using craft straws and lolly sticks. 😃👏 … See MoreSee Less
Year 4 invited parents and carers into school for the afternoon to take part in Christmas crafts with their children. It was a lovely afternoon enjoyed by everyone. 🎄✨ … See MoreSee Less
The Reception Christmas party was full of festive fun! The children enjoyed lots of dancing, singing Christmas songs, making Christmas crafts, and decorating delicious Christmas biscuits.
What a wonderful afternoon! 🎄✨ … See MoreSee Less
We need your help! 📣
We are politely asking for any parents/carers who work in the trade industry to donate any surplus, larger items (pallets, nets, traffic cones, larger planks of wood, crates, cable reels etc).
Any item/s will be warmly received as we look to build a stock of den building equipment for our children to access at playtimes.
If you're unsure as to whether an item can be repurposed then please don't hesitate to ask. May we also take this opportunity to sincerely thank everyone for their donations so far, as part of the OPAL bingo. … See MoreSee Less
A big well done to all of our certificate winners from last week! And a big well done to class 3A, as the whole class was awarded Star of the Week! Brilliant work all of you 🎉🤩👏 … See MoreSee Less
Year 4 have started their Christmas Poem in English! ❄️⛄️We read our poem 'The Snow Monster' and then used the Chromebooks to collect pictures to create our own mood boards to describe the poem! 💻✨ … See MoreSee Less