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
Our reception children transformed into junior detectives last week embarking on an exciting school exploration! 🕵️♀️ The children turned their classroom curiosity into a full-blown investigation, wandering through different school areas to craft their very own maps🗺 ✏
The highlight? A special VIP visit to Mr Wallace's office! 👀 One of the children really enjoyed playing headteacher, while some budding professionals participated in an adorable "board meeting" that had everyone giggling😂😊 … See MoreSee Less
🎉 We're delighted to announce that we have been approved by the DfE to run the Paid Teacher Internship Programme from 2026
This programme gives university students in priority subjects the chance to gain hands-on teaching experience before committing to a career in education. It also supports schools and ITT providers in recruiting the next generation of teachers.
Interns can earn up to £1,365 for taking part in the programme.
Further information and the application form can be found on the Achievement through Collaboration (AtC) Trust website.
The programme is delivered through AtC Trust’s accredited Initial Teacher Training provider, Kingsbridge EIP SCITT.
www.atctrust.org.uk/work-for-us/internships/ … See MoreSee Less
Year 4 created their final piece for their cityscape drawings last week. Some of the children even compared the first draft they did at the beginning of our topic to our final piece! The improvement is amazing!⭐️✏️ Well done year 4!👏✨ … See MoreSee Less
Our little artists in year 3 have been hard at work crafting magical cards and calendars that are sure to bring smiles to their families' faces🎨☺️
The classroom has been buzzing with excitement, giggles, and festive spirit during the build up to Christmas🎄 ✨
We can't wait for everyone to see the love and creativity these amazing kids have poured into their special gifts! 🎁❤️ … See MoreSee Less
Music magic in 5B! 🎵✨ One of our talented young musicians shared her flute skills in a delightful mini concert last week. Her dedication to practising and growing her musical talents absolutely shines through – we couldn't be more proud! 🎶👏 … See MoreSee Less
4B had a lovely time in their spirituality session this week. They shared what brings them joy, what message they’d like to share with the world and what they wish for the future 🔔🪽⭐️
Their beautiful reflections are now proudly displayed, transforming our school walls into a canvas of hope and inspiration 🌟✨ … See MoreSee Less
Year 3 turned ordinary cereal boxes into extraordinary medieval masterpieces this week! 🏰✨
Students crafted incredible castles complete with working drawbridges that actually go up and down using clever hinge and pulley mechanisms 🛠️🏗️
Who knew breakfast packaging could become such an awesome engineering project? 🤩 … See MoreSee Less
Spreading holiday magic at Belong Wigan! 🎄🎶
This week our incredible school choir had the chance to visit and perform for the wonderful residents at Belong. The children were exceptional, bringing smiles, laughter and Christmas cheer to our community's cherished seniors 😊✨ … See MoreSee Less
We had a very special visitor at Thames Primary Academy this morning… 🎅🏼🤩
A huge thank you to Father Christmas (aka Santa!) for squeezing us into his super-busy schedule. The children were SO excited to see him again and absolutely loved their class gifts 🎁
Everyone from Nursery all the way up to Year 6 got to meet him — and there are plenty more smiles (and photos!) to be found in your class private groups 💜
P.S. We heard lots of promises about being extra good between now and Christmas… let’s see how that goes! 🙊🎄✨ … See MoreSee Less