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
Miss Wheatley's children LOVE the story The Colour Monster and it's really helped them to understand and talk about their emotions. 💛🩶💚❤️🩷
#NationalStorytellingWeek … See MoreSee Less
A huge thanks to the amazing children, parents, governors, and staff who spoke to the Educational Psychologists from Wigan Council yesterday. Their contributions helped provide evidence toward earning the gold award for Emotionally Friendly Schools 💚 … See MoreSee Less
In English, 2A have been sentence building. We have been exploring subordinate clauses and looking at how to correctly punctuate sentences with commas and full stops 📝
We have also been using talk tokens when having discussions about our new text “Vlad and the Great Fire of London.” 📚
The talk tokens have helped us to ensure our contributions to the discussions are valuable, important and that everyone in the group has a chance to speak 🗣️ … See MoreSee Less
Our preschool came alive with joy and imagination last week as parents joined us for our special Stay and Play session, where we celebrated our love of stories!🌟 We performed and enjoyed activities linked to our bear hunt story, turning storytelling into a delightful shared experience 🐻 📖
It was a heartwarming reminder of how stories can connect us, spark imagination, and create magical moments 🤗✨ … See MoreSee Less
As part of National Storytelling Week, Hayley, our Nursery Manager would like to share a story 💜
Can you spot her cheeky dog who wanted to listen to the story too? 🐕 … See MoreSee Less
A huge thank you to Ashton Tyre & Exhaust Limited for their incredibly generous donation and delivery of tyres to our nursery outdoor play area!
They’ve completely transformed the space and it’s already a firm favourite with the children. From climbing over car tyres to hiding and playing inside the large tractor tyres, the children are having so much fun while developing their physical skills, confidence and imagination.
Our outdoor area is looking fantastic and is full of excitement, exploration and smiles — we’re so grateful for your support! 💚 … See MoreSee Less
WOW! Check out these amazing research pages by year 8 artists! Miss Moss was blown away 🎨 Can you spot yours 🔍 … See MoreSee Less
Dear Parents and Carers,
With the colder weather now firmly upon us, we are writing to ask for your support in ensuring your child comes to school dressed warmly and appropriately for the conditions.
We want all our children to be comfortable and able to enjoy their time outdoors, including during break times and lunchtimes. Please ensure your child is wearing a warm coat to school each day.
For our girls, we would recommend wearing warm tights under their uniform skirts/pinafores to help them stay warm throughout the day. Layers are always the most effective way to keep warm in the cold weather.
We appreciate your understanding and support in helping us keep all the children warm, well, and happy during this winter period.
Thank you,
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Our young composers in year 4 have been hard at work creating their own unique motifs and weaving them together into stunning musical masterpieces based on Hans Zimmer's 'Earth' 🎵🌍 … See MoreSee Less