Two MAT policies have been updated from December 2020:

• Designated Teacher for Looked After and Previously Looked After Children Policy
• Exclusions Policy

Go to Policy page for all MAT policies

Congratulations to Archbishop Cranmer Church of England Academy for achieving a ranking in the top 250 state primary school in England, as published in the Sunday Times.

Archbishop Cranmer, in the Nottinghamshire village of Aslockton, was awarded this ranking based on the aggregated average scales scores achieved by children in reading, grammar and maths from SATS taken in 2019.

The Aspire MAT is delighted to welcome Winthorpe Primary School to Aspire from 1st November as its latest converter academy.

Winthorpe is the 7th academy to join the Aspire family.

Ongoing guidance is being issued from the Aspire MAT which has been sent to all parents in our academies via headteachers.

This advice goes further in some areas than the current guidance for schools from the DfE. It is appreciated that this is a rapidly changing issue and that guidance and information in the letter will have to revised in the light of new information and national recommendations. Any revised information will be made available here, as well as through our academies.

Letters to parents

• 10 July 2020 – September return to school   New
• 8 July 2020 – Summer holiday club provision  New

• 29 June 2020
• 15 June 2020
• 15 May 2020
• 2 April 2020
• 27 March 2020
• 20 March 2020
• 19 March 2020
• 17 March 2020
• 13 March 2020
• 4 March 2020

The latest edition of the Aspire Newsletter, April 2020, is now available – click here

It’s my experience that many organisations pay lip service to well-being and talk about valuing their staff whilst really having very little time for them. We want Aspire to be different. …Read More

On the subject of schools joining us, there’s a good chance that our group of 5 will grow over the next 12 months or so and I’ll use this newsletter to keep you all posted. …Read More

The consultation relating to school holidays for academies in the Aspire MAT has been completed. Maintained schools in Nottinghamshire are changing their term dates from 2019/20 onwards in response to their consultation from which …Read More