Orchard Community Trust

I am pleased to welcome you to Orchard Community Trust. Our Multi Academy Trust consists of 7 schools, all withing Stoke-on-Trent. As part of our family of schools, we have 5 Primary Schools and 2 large Special Schools working proudly to be an inclusive, collaborative MAT ensuring that all children within the Orchard flourish together. The Orchard Community Trust vision; Working together, we enable everyone to flourish through high-quality education is supported by the values of courage, unity and equity. We continually strive to deliver the very best educational experience for pupils from ages 3–18. The Trust supports and improves its schools collaboratively and across a diverse geographical area of Stoke-on-Trent, maintaining a clear focus on raising standards, encouraging innovation, collaboration, sharing best practice and strengthening our shared values. This has a positive impact on the young people we serve. Our schools and staff provide environments which are welcoming, caring, calm, well-led and managed and purposeful. This allows our children to grow academically, emotionally and socially, helping them develop and progress successfully with resilience and aspiration to their next phase of learning, training and/or employment. Orchard Community Trust is supported by a strong Board of Trustees who have a diverse range of skills and experience that support and challenge leaders and schools. The Board provides strategic challenge and genuine partnerships to improve outcomes, share best practice and operate effectively and efficiently. In turn, our organisation and central support functions deliver efficiencies to the benefit of all. Our biggest asset to improving children's life chances is our wonderful staff. We love to see staff do well, learn and grow, enjoy their role and have great working relationships with colleagues. This culture is an enabler to provide the best educational experiences for all our children. Mr Sean Thomson Chief Executive Officer