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The strategic intent of Great Academies is to grow in a considered fashion, building partner primary school clusters in geographical proximity to our secondary academies. The partnerships will be built around our GREAT values to ensure that our Trust and schools are values-led organisations.
Potential Partners;
- Preferably graded by Ofsted as Good or Outstanding and who are outward-facing and willing to bring capacity to the Trust to share our work on school improvement.
- We welcome partnership with Requires Improvement schools, and schools in any category of concern, and these must be open to full engagement with the Great Academies School Improvement model and have the capacity to improve, indicated in recent s5 or s8 inspections.
- A commitment to establish or maintain the school at the heart of its community, fulfilling its civic obligations as well as providing the best possible education for the children, leading to their best possible outcomes.
- A commitment to the continuing professional development of all employees, including Initial Teacher Training (ITT), the Early Career Framework (ECF), National Professional Qualifications (NPQ) and all other professional qualifications across teaching and non-teaching staff bodies.
- A desire to ensure that the family of schools working together in a MAT is beneficial for all, including a commitment to work for the greater good of everyone.

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We had a nice visit from @jreynoldsMP today. He met with students at @copleyacademy who asked some challenging questions about leveling up, education, environment, and local business life in parliament.
Year 11 have had an amazing day at Blackpool Pleasure Beach…now on the way back home a little later than planned to get on with some revision!!
We are helping our schools reach and capture the attention of their audience through #videomarketing, with support from @ShootBusiness @copleyacademy
We are seeking a Trust Data Manager to lead our approach to data management and work with our Trustees, Local Governing Committees and Principals. View the role details: https://t.co/l6Vw8WWxs9
We’ve had a really good morning with Reach Church and @WeActTogether Tameside looking at the ways we can work together on projects both in the academy and in the community. Exciting times.
Great to see E Ashton (former Copley student) being so successful with the Manchester United Women U21 team! Well Done 👏🏻 Northern title: ✔️
National title: ✔️ @ManUtdWomen @ManUtd @MU_Foundation
Latest News! We are so pleased to have launched our new range of websites with the team at @gainline_ after investing in a major redesign project for our schools in #Tameside and #Rochdale https://t.co/Ni5jxr1Cjx #edchat #edtech.