Benefits
Joining the Kite Academy Trust brings many advantages for children, families, staff and communities. Due to its size and organisation, there are three over-arching benefits of being a part of our Trust:
- Ability to provide the very best resources to support both our teaching and administrative functions
- Pooling and sharing information to promote faster, more sustainable improvement in teaching and learning across all academies
- Flexibility to respond to changing needs through utilisation of resources across the Trust
Specific areas of benefit include:
| Area | Benefit | Reason | Impact on Pupils |
| Strategic Management | Ability to manage the development of the Trust to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency | Experienced Trustees with a wealth of relevant skills | Ensures the Trust is focused on the quality of teaching and learning |
| Organisational Structure | Ability to utilise Senior and Specialist leaders across the Trust | Utilising experienced Leadership Staff & Academy Improvement Teams within a hub structure | Ensures all pupils benefit from the best teaching and support skills within the Trust when they are needed most |
| Facilities | Ability to share resources across the Trust | Supportive, collaborative ethos | Access to facilities to other academies |
| Economies of Scale | Ability to reduce out-going costs | Trust spending power | More funding can be spend on curriculum |
| Specialist Resource | Ability to provide specialist resources which would not be available to a stand-alone school | Spreading the cost over a number of academies allows for additional support to be provided | Makes specialist support more readily available to those pupils and families who need it |
| Central Team | Ability to provide non-academic functions in a cost-effective way | High quality and experience Central Staff responsible for 'back office' functions | Ensures that the focus within an academy is on the quality of teaching, learning and achievement |
| Staff Recruitment & Retention | Ability to recruit high-calibre staff and to retain them | Employer of choice; reputation of Trust; excellent training provision, staff benefits; cross-academy opportunities; good career progression opportunities | Provision of high quality teaching meeting the needs of the pupils; consistent high quality teaching within academies and across the Trust; less in-year teacher changes |
| Staff Training | Ability to provide cost effective, high quality, focused training across all academies | Able to include all staff; spread the cost; offer to non-Trust schools | Well-trained teaching & support staff better prepared to meet the needs of the individual pupils |
| Pupil Transfer | Ability to support Year 6 children with secondary transition through 'Friendship Day' organised in 'secondary school' groups | Number of academies in Trust | Enables pupils to meet and make friendship groups with children form other academies who will be in their year group at secondary school |
| Trust-wide Events | Ability to provide inter-academy events covering sports, arts, maths, science etc. | Competitive yet friendly ethos | Provides opportunities to meet and work/compete with pupils from other academies |