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 β€œwe” 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.

CEO Jane Chambers

Jane Chambers
CEO
Achievement through Collaboration Trust

Our Academies

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Year 3 have been busy exploring the world of friction! First they made their predictions on how different objects would behave on various surfaces and then tested and recorded their findings πŸ“

These budding researchers are learning that the world around them is full of invisible forces just waiting to be discovered! πŸ”βœ¨
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Class 2A have been exploring the magical world of colour blending to create the most beautiful gradients and hues. They've also been learning how to add value to colours in order to add that extra depth to their paintings 🀩

The concentration on their little faces when they're mixing that perfect shade or creating that seamless blend… it's pure magic! ✨
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Year 4 have been practising their Yoga poses this week using our new mats πŸ§˜β€β™€οΈβœ¨

We learned how to empower ourselves as we flowed from pose to pose using "I am" affirmations. "I am strong!" echoed through warrior pose, "I am resilient!" powered their tree stands, and "I am capable!" carried them through every stretch πŸ’ͺ

There's something absolutely beautiful about seeing young minds connect movement with mindfulness and discover their inner zen ✨
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We're very proud of this young man in Year 5 – he has shown a huge improvement in his attitude towards writing ✍️ Well done and keep up the brilliant work! πŸ‘βœ¨ See MoreSee Less

The children have had a lovely Golden Time today decorating their class Christmas trees and getting in the festive spirit! πŸŽ„ Some classes also watched a lovely Christmas film with some yummy popcorn, where as some classes chose to have a Christmas dance party but one thing's for sure – every class had a blast! πŸŽ…πŸ»βœ¨ See MoreSee Less

A big well done to all of our Times Tables Rock Stars, Positive Pupils, Book Heroes, Scientists, Writers, Stars of the Week and Head Teacher's Award winners for last week! Brilliant work all of you πŸŽ‰πŸ€©πŸ‘ See MoreSee Less

βœ¨πŸ‘ Out of School Achievements πŸ‘βœ¨

A massive congratulations to this pupil from class 6B who won Senior Mascot of 2025 at her end of season Morris dancing championships last week πŸ†βœ¨

What a superstar! We can't wait to see what comes next πŸ‘βœ¨
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Our Year 6 students have been making good use of their new Chromebooks πŸ’»βœ¨ They have been using them to craft heartfelt thank you letters for all the wonderful toy donations we received for our Christmas Toy Appeal so far 🧸🎁 See MoreSee Less

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