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
Our Academies
This week, our reception children receieved some very special certificates 📜✨ These certificates celebrate their belonging to their individual key worker groups as well as our school community as a whole 🏫🤝 … See MoreSee Less
In PE, the students in 5B have been busy practising various circuit skills across a variety of different track and field events 🤾♀️🤾🏃♂️🏃♀️💨 … See MoreSee Less
In science, 5B have been investigating various materials to determine which are soluble 💧 and insoluble 🚫 They began by recording their predictions 📝 and then conducted experiments to verify if their hypotheses were correct 🧪✅ … See MoreSee Less
📣 OPEN EVENING REMINDER 📣
📅 Wednesday 30 September 2026
⏰ 6pm to 8.30pm
We can’t wait to welcome prospective Year 5 & 6 pupils, parents and carers to our Acadmey!
Come and meet our staff and students, explore our departments and discover how we succeed together through:
Success | Support | Social Growth … See MoreSee Less
📣 OPEN EVENING REMINDER 📣
📅 Wednesday 30 September 2026 at Witton Park Academy
🕕 6pm to 8.30pm
We can’t wait to welcome prospective Year 5 & 6 pupils, parents and carers to Witton Park Academy!
Come and meet our staff and students, explore our departments and discover how we succeed together through:
Success | Support | Social Growth … See MoreSee Less
Looks like a fantastic day of teamwork and collaboration at Bowland High! 👏
We hope the rain held off and our Year 7 pupils have a brilliant time building friendships and making memories. … See MoreSee Less
Fantastic learning in Year 6! ✍️📚 Great to see our pupils achieving through their writing, collaborating in their learning and building a strong sense of belonging. Keep up the great work. … See MoreSee Less
Fantastic historical thinking in 1TK! 🔎🌟 Great to see our pupils exploring, questioning and collaborating as they investigate the past. Well done! 👏 … See MoreSee Less
A fantastic achievement for Hindley Junior and Infant School! 🥈🏆 A wonderful recognition of the hard work, dedication and teamwork of both pupils and staff. Congratulations to everyone involved! 👏We are delighted to announce that we, Hindley Junior & Infant School, have achieved the School Games SILVER Mark Award for the 2025/26 academic year.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
With a total of young people competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
A special thanks to Miss Cameron, who leads PE across our school. Miss Cameron has completely revamped our PE curriculum, and overall sporting offer for the children. From organising engaging themed sports days and expanding our after-school offer to actively representing our school at network meetings, her passion and drive have been instrumental in transforming our physical education program. The Silver Mark is a true reflection of her vision and hard work.
We look forward to applying once again in 2027!
#hjiexperience … See MoreSee Less