Best Practice Network Academies Trust

Educational aims and objectives

Our aim is to provide inspiring and life enhancing educational opportunities for the current and future children and young people attending BPN academies. We seek to achieve this by providing teaching and learning of the highest order and via a curriculum that actively seeks to engage both pupils and parents.

The ethos of each of our academies will be underpinned by an expectation that all children can achieve their potential and will be supported by a commitment to strive for excellence, in an environment that is innovative, stimulating and caring. Our academies will be inclusive and value diversity, respecting people for who they are and will treat parents as partners and engage in outreach activities to ensure that stakeholders have a strong sense of each institution being their academy.

We will use our school improvement processes based on ‘Narrowing the Gaps’ research to deliver transformation in pupils’ learning and rates of progress. Our team of school improvement professionals bring with them a wide range of expertise and experience in relation to helping to improve and transform educational outcomes for children. We will draw upon personnel of the highest calibre to improve the quality of teaching and learning so that the focus is relentlessly on children’s learning and achievement. This team will be used to provide deliver targeted interventions and relevant professional development programmes. Our approach is

Trust, Governance and Strategic Planning

The Academy Trust will set the strategic direction for each new academy to deliver the aims outlined above. It will be responsible for the transition process, governance, property, finance and HR functions. It will work with DfE to agree targets for improvement and monitor and evaluate the success of the new academy towards achieving them. Trustees include:

• BPN’s Chief Executive, Colin McLean, has a proven record of establishing and growing successful organisations responsive to the changing requirements of government departments, agencies and local authorities. He has wide ranging experience of school improvement including working with KPMG in Liverpool, Southwark and Sandwell. He facilitated the National College’s Leadership Programme for Serving Heads (LPSH) and was an OFSTED Registered Inspector.
• Brenda Bigland CBE – Until July 2011 Brenda was the headteacher of Lent Rise Primary School in Buckinghamshire which under her leadership was designated as a Nationally Outstanding Primary School. She is a National Leader of Education and won the Leadership and Collaboration Award for ICT Excellence in 2010.
• Dame Enid Bibby CBE– Enid was the headteacher of two Outstanding 11- 18 Schools: Silverdale in Sheffield LA (1995-1998) and Wood Green College of Sport, Mathematics and Computing in Sandwell LA (1998-2010). She has the experience and credibility which comes with having ‘turned round’ two large mixed comprehensive schools both of which have sustained the improvement started under her leadership. Enid had the honour of being appointed DBE for her work in improving education in the West Midlands.
• Jayne Clemence is our Director of Special Educational Needs Support Service. Jayne has been head of two special schools and worked as a HMI. She has worked internationally with government and NGOs in Africa and Eastern Europe and has wide ranging leadership and governance experience in the voluntary sector as Chair of the Shaftsbury Society.

If you would like to find out more about Best Practice Network Academies Trust contact Mike Ion mike.ion@bestpracticenet.co.uk 07775 596 168