
Achievement through Collaboration (AtC) is a Trust of 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













📢 Attention Yr 11 – Mock Exam Week ahead
⏰ Set that alarm clock
☀️Wake up bright & early
🥯Have breakfast (free @ breakfast club)
✨Have the right mindset
🏆 Achieve your best
📖 Be the best version of you
💯 Aim for 100%
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Our Reception friends have been time-travelling this week! 🕰️ They have been learning about past and present and discovered what laundry day looked like before washing machines came along.
Scrubbing, wringing, and hanging clothes to dry—our students got a genuine taste of how much harder life used to be. It's amazing what a simple activity can teach us about how much things have changed!
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🎉 Another incredible success story to share! 🎉
Well done to Gracie! We are thrilled to announce that another of our primary trainees has secured employment for September. Gracie is over the moon to be starting her teaching career at her placement school, and Kingsbridge Initial Teacher Training – North West couldn't be prouder of her achievement! 👏
Gracie’s employment is testament to the high employment rates our trainees consistently enjoy. Because our trainees spend so much time immersed in real classrooms, they are exceptionally well prepared for the classroom and role of a teacher!
Ready for a career where you are highly sought after? If you want to step into a rewarding profession with excellent job prospects, we would love to help you get there.
Choose Kingsbridge and start making a difference today! Discover more about our teacher training programmes and start your application:
🌐 Website: www.kingsbridgeteachertraining.co.uk
✉️ Email: kingsbridge@atctrust.org.uk
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Today on International Women’s Day, we celebrate the remarkable women whose courage, creativity and compassion help shape stronger communities every day.
Across our schools in Blackpool, Blackburn, Wigan and Lancashire, the women of Achievement through Collaboration (AtC) inspire, lead and support the next generation. This includes the incredible women involved in our Kingsbridge Initial Teacher Training – North West SCITT, which operates across schools throughout the North West of England, helping to train and develop the teachers of tomorrow.
Achieve. Belong. Collaborate.
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Year 3 have been enjoying their new indoor unit on Tennis. They have learnt all about the different parts of a racket and begun to control the ball using the face of the racket 🎾 … See MoreSee Less
Our Reception friends have been absolutely loving their book of the month: The Little Red Hen! They've taken the story straight from the pages and onto our outdoor stage, where they're bringing that hardworking hen and her reluctant friends to life 🎭✨ … See MoreSee Less
Great to see our team representing our Trust SCITT Kingsbridge in Manchester today and highlighting the opportunities to train to teach across the North West through our extensive network of partners. Well done, Charlotte, Amy and Kirsten! 👏 … See MoreSee Less
3B have been on a word-building adventure in English! 📝 They've been discovering how adding a prefix to a root word is like giving it a superpower—suddenly "do" becomes "undo," "happy" transforms into "unhappy," and ordinary words get a whole new meaning. It's amazing how a few letters at the beginning can completely flip what a word says! ✨ … See MoreSee Less