Celebrating Our ATT Communities

This June marks the UK’s Month of Community. While each of our academies serves its own community, we are also part of something larger: a Trust-wide network of professionals committed to working together, learning from one another and improving outcomes for every pupil. Our ATT Communities bring this to life, creating purposeful spaces where colleagues connect, share expertise and develop practice together.

At a time when the education sector continues to evolve and face complex challenges, it is this focus on collaboration that enables us to grow collectively. By working across 22 schools, three phases, and hundreds of unique roles, we are able to deepen our collective professional knowledge, reduce duplication, and ensure that effective practice is shared widely and implemented consistently.

Most importantly, this collaboration is not an end in itself, but a powerful driver of impact. Across ATT, our communities are strengthening provision, improving systems and, ultimately, supporting better outcomes for children and young people.

Turning Collaboration into Impact

Across a wide range of communities, colleagues are coming together with a shared purpose: to improve practice and deliver meaningful change.

For example, within our PSHE, RSHE and CEIAG community, colleagues are working collaboratively to refine provision and ensure it is inclusive, relevant and responsive. Through shared expertise, academies are strengthening approaches to statutory curriculum delivery, improving access for students in alternative provision, and enhancing careers education to raise aspirations and support life chances. Discussions have also explored how to foster positive identity and belonging, reflecting a wider commitment to inclusive education across the Trust.

Similarly, our SEND Community is driving tangible improvements through a strong focus on evidence-informed practice and shared systems. By working together to analyse attendance, behaviour and progress data, colleagues are able to identify patterns earlier and implement targeted interventions more effectively. At the same time, co-construction of Trust-wide guidance is ensuring greater consistency in areas such as transition and neuro-inclusion- reducing barriers, improving experiences for pupils and strengthening outcomes across academies.

This commitment to collaboration is also transforming how we use data. Our Data Managers Community is ensuring that information across the Trust is not only accessible, but meaningful and actionable. By shaping shared systems such as our Central Data Portal, colleagues have created a consistent, transparent approach to performance information, enabling leaders and teachers to make informed decisions that support teaching and learning.

In our Attendance Community, practitioners are sharing practical strategies and case studies that bring inclusive practice to life. This includes a strong focus on relational and strengths-based approaches, helping colleagues better understand the barriers pupils face and how to respond with personalised, supportive solutions that improve attendance and belonging.

Strengthening Practice Across Every Classroom

Our Curriculum Communities are a cornerstone of this collaborative approach, bringing together colleagues across subjects and phases to refine teaching, assessment and curriculum design.

Across the curriculum, teachers are working together to deepen subject knowledge, align expectations and improve consistency. This includes developing shared assessments, moderating standards and exploring new approaches to teaching that strengthen both understanding and application. For example, colleagues in maths have worked on more effective approaches to teaching multiplication, moving the focus from testing towards deeper conceptual understanding. In English, communities have developed Trust-wide assessments that support both knowledge and disciplinary literacy, creating greater coherence across key stages.

This shared work strengthens classroom practice and builds professional confidence and expertise, ensuring that every teacher, regardless of location, benefits from the collective knowledge of the Trust.

“Drawing on shared expertise across academies, this work is strengthening consistency and ensuring guidance is practical and rooted in day-to-day practice”.

Secondary SEND Community

A Collective Commitment to Inclusion and Safeguarding

At the heart of all ATT Communities is a shared commitment to inclusion; ensuring that every child feels safe, understood and able to succeed.

Our Safeguarding Community exemplifies this, bringing together Designated Safeguarding Leads to strengthen both systems and practice. From improving digital safety and aligning with national guidance, to embedding trauma-informed approaches, these sessions are equipping leaders with the knowledge and tools to build safer, more supportive environments across our academies.

Across communities, there is a consistent focus on removing barriers, supporting vulnerable pupils and fostering a sense of belonging. Whether through SEND provision, attendance strategies or curriculum design, collaboration is helping ensure that inclusive practice is embedded at every level.

What unites all of our ATT Communities is a shared belief that we are stronger together. By creating space for collaboration, we are not only developing individual expertise but also strengthening our organisation as a whole. We are building shared systems, aligning practice and fostering a culture of openness and professional generosity.

The impact of this is clear in more consistent provision, more confident staff and, most importantly, better experiences and outcomes for our pupils. As we recognise the Month of Community this June, we celebrate the colleagues across ATT who contribute so generously to this work. Their commitment to collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement is what makes our communities so powerful.