It is a pleasure as always to take the opportunity to reflect, and to thank everyone in our Trust community for their contribution and support throughout this year. A recent highlight has been to warmly welcome three schools into the Trust from June 2025. St Benedict’s Midsomer Norton, St John’s Bath and St Mary’s Bath are all pleased to join our family of schools. Their transfer was helped by our continued strong working relationship with colleagues at Clifton Diocese Schools and Colleges team. We have regular contact through Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers and Chairs of the three multi-academy trusts in the diocese. Diocesan support was further reflected through the recent Trust reviews to offer transparent and independent assessments of each Trust’s progress and capacity for our further growth to deliver the Bishop’s vision for schools in the diocese. The review for DCET confirmed our own assessment and further stated ‘the Trust is very well led [and] has established rigorous processes to ensure that children and young people in the Trust’s schools receive the very best Catholic education’. We celebrate that but recognise there is always more to do, and we continue to drive forward together. One of the ways in which Trust Board directors keep informed about and in touch with our schools is through visits. We are grateful to all our headteachers – and their staff and governors – for letting us share in some wonderful assemblies, sports days, chaplaincy events, public speaking competitions and school walks. This also helps us at key times such as our annual Strategy Day, this year in early June. We reviewed our current Trust Strategy and drivers, reflected on recent government development on inspection, and on current and forecast demographics shifts in the school population. Our focus remains on being a strong Trust with a clear purpose to enable our children to be the best they can be, to flourish at school and beyond. On behalf of the Trust Board directors, I wish everyone a very well earned, relaxing, happy and peaceful summer break. Catherine Christie Trust Board Chair of Directors
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