The Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust

Developing A First-Class Education

The development of education as a lever for improving social mobility and outcomes for all children is at the heart of our Trust’s Education offer.  With a strong central Education Team of experienced school leaders with core specialisms, LAAT is able to support, nurture and enrich the offer within our school so that all children benefit.  This support is included as part of the offer for all schools at no additional charge.

Whether outcomes and curriculum are excellent or need improving, LAAT, not only has the central expertise to support us, but more importantly, it has the collective strength of all educators within LAAT schools.  As well as the central School Development Advisers, the Trust has a team of internal experts based in schools who work as Specialist Subject Advisers and Associate Leads, working directly with individual schools, hubs and through central CPD, to help achieve this.

As Trust schools, we also work with strategic external partners such as LEAD, The English Hub, Read Write Inc., the Geographical Association and STEM to enrich our offer and to ensure that the support for education is strong.

LAAT is proud of its primary outcomes, many of which are above the national average and where they are not, the gap is narrowing significantly and more rapidly than the national picture.

Training

LAAT is dedicated to giving its staff top-notch training opportunities that boost their skills, inspire creativity, and lead to better outcomes for the students we serve. running around 80 different CPD training events for staff each year.

Find out more on the LAAT website

The Trust also actively supports our employees who want to pursue professional qualifications, such as the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH), which is designed to develop the leadership skills and behaviours needed to be an effective and high-performing headteacher or head of school or apprenticeships across the workforce.

Central Team

Thanks to the LAAT central team we can access a wealth of support services that allow our school’s leadership team to focus on teaching and improving child outcomes, including:

• IT: licensing and funding for new devices for pupils and staff
• Colleague services team: which help us to appoint and retain the very best staff.
• Governance services: to ensure that decision-making is transparent, fair and legally compliant
• Full business and operations: to enable us to concentrate on leading teaching and learning.
• Procurement of back-office services: including computer systems, waste contracts, insurances, photocopiers
• Estates management: to manage capital projects (eg new heating systems, roofs, playgrounds, decoration etc) and oversee buildings compliance, ensuring that our schools are safe and healthy places for learning

Improved Student Outcomes

LAAT provides us with unlimited education support – which includes access to 3 Education Development Advisers, a Trust Headteacher to provide additional support as required and a number of associate advisers and subject leads.

• Access to the English hub – An organisation which provides CPD, reading audits, etc
• An External Maths specialist to support in school as needed

Care And Support

Schools that join LAAT can also feel the care and support that comes from being part of a larger family of schools that share the same principles and values. And like all families we are there for each other during difficult times.

“We genuinely believe that together we can do so much more than we can do alone” Jackie Waters-Dewhurst, LAAT CEO

For more information about LAAT go to www.thelaat.co.uk

How LAAT Supports Our Schools

LAAT is a family of 24 wonderful schools, each with its own character, community and identity.

Our role is to support our schools and help them thrive. We bring together colleagues with expertise across education, finance, HR, estates, health and safety, data and operations, who work alongside school teams to provide advice, support and practical help. By sharing this expertise across LAAT, we can ease pressure on busy school leaders and give them more time to focus on what matters most: giving every child the best possible education.

What does LAAT do?

We provide specialist support in areas including:

• Education and school improvement – leadership development, curriculum, teaching and learning, assessment and inclusion.
• Finance – helping schools manage resources effectively and meet financial and regulatory requirements.
• People and HR – recruitment, employee relations, wellbeing, training and professional development.
• Payroll and pensions – providing accurate and reliable administration for school colleagues.
• Operations and administration – supporting the efficient day-to-day running of schools.
• Health and safety – helping schools maintain safe environments for pupils, staff and visitors.
• Data and insight – supporting informed decision-making and school improvement.
• Governance – working with school and Trust governance structures to ensure effective processes and compliance.

What doesn't LAAT do?

Being part of LAAT does not mean every school becomes the same. Schools retain their individual identity, character and connection to their communities.

LAAT does not:

• Decide how individual schools organise their classes or classrooms.
• Set day-to-day school routines.
• Choose class names, displays or decorations.
• Decide which trips, celebrations, events, clubs or enrichment activities take place.
• Interfere with PTAs or Friends groups.
• Decide which local traditions schools maintain.
• Replace the relationship between schools, parents and their communities.
• Dictate how schools engage with their local communities.
• Set each school's calendar and events programme.
• Control how schools communicate with families, provided they meet Trust standards.
• Make every spending decision for schools; school leaders manage their delegated budgets within the Trust's financial framework.