Our team knows first-hand how to make education better for schools, pupils and their teachers.

For us, the future of UK education relies upon schools working closely together to share best practices, giving every child the best chance in life. We set up ATT to make this vision a reality.

As a not for profit trust, we work with our growing family of primary and secondary academies, and further education providers in the Midlands, East of England and South East.

Our mission is to provide the very best education for all pupils and the highest level of support for our staff to ensure every child leaves our academies with everything they need to reach their full potential.

ATT Institute

Our ‘Institute’ is an umbrella term for all people development available to all ATT stakeholders. It serves our whole ATT community: children and young people, parents and carers, employees and the wider community.  

We are committed to the very best people development. We empower all stakeholders through equality of opportunity and place the needs of our stakeholders and the communities we serve at the front and centre of all we do. We believe we are better together and value collaboration within and beyond our organisation. ATT People Development activities will be the very best learning our stakeholders have ever had. Through high-quality people development we will all transform lives and communities.

Our Institute is a learning eco-system through which all people within our communities and beyond can thrive. It starts with the belief that we are all leaders of our eco-system. Leadership does not just come from the top; it has to be genuinely stakeholder-led. Irrespective of our role: admin, education, estates, finance, governance and operations, we all have a responsibility to make things better for children and young people and to help ensure that teachers are delivering a top drawer education. Thus, we have a professional obligation to keep getting better through engagement in people development activities so that the ‘edge’ between schools and communities, where educators work with pupils, parents and carers and communities is the best it can possibly be.

We resolutely believe it is our moral and professional imperative to hear all voices and use our own agency to develop others within and beyond our Trust. ATT employees must use their local leadership to develop and lead others beyond their immediate setting and beyond our own Institute. The advancement of our Institute in this way, will lead to whole of system improvement and transform more lives and more communities.

Through delivering outstanding education, we seek to uncover and nurture the hidden potential we believe is in every child, giving them the best possible opportunity to succeed in a changing world. 

This commitment extends to our staff, whose skills and abilities are key to this success.

As a multi academy sponsor with 18 academies, we offer excellent opportunities for our employees to develop their career; all driven by our shared vision and commitments to pupils, staff and their wider community.

We are looking for staff who will:

• support our principles and vision
• always seek the highest standards for pupils
• responding positively to our requests and requirements
• work collaboratively across our family of academies
• support the development of The Trust, our profile and image, as well as their individual academy.

Testimonials

Abby Bayford, Director of Institute

I started a career with ATT in January 2014 as a Lead Practitioner of English at Bristnall Hall Academy. I was then given the opportunity to take on the role of Assistant Principal of Teaching and Learning as a maternity post. This opportunity was significant in developing my professional capacity to lead. It also helped to develop my leadership competencies and broaden my scope of influence. Fortunately, this became a permanent post. ATT is passionate about mobilising teacher agency and I was encouraged to drive improvement in areas within and beyond my remit. This led to an increase in responsibility and I became responsible for leadership and management and quality of education as Vice Principal. Through ATT's talent management processes, I was then identified as a potential system leader and was given executive portfolio responsibly for people development across our Trust. As such, I was given the opportunity to become Director of Institute, establishing a professional learning Institute as a vehicle to drive people development for all across our ATT family. This is my most rewarding role to date.

Amy Bills, Regional Education Director – Primary

It is wonderful to be part of an organisation in which people development commands such a high profile. My own career development within ATT from Assistant Principal to Principal, Executive Principal and now Regional Education Director is an example of the wealth of opportunities afforded to us all - whatever our role - and the high quality professional development available when part of a large MAT which has transformation and collaboration at its core.

Mia-Rae Brown, HR Apprentice

I began my career at ATT in October 2019 as the HR Apprentice. ATT gave me the amazing opportunity to do the CIPD Level 3 HR Certificate course. I have been given lots of great support from many colleagues throughout my course and have gained so much more knowledge from the many different opportunities provided to me. I have been able to attend different training courses to help with my development. The ATT Institute has also been a big part of my learning and development as the Institute offers many different webinars for HR and other areas as well. I have now passed all of my units and finished my course. Going forwards, I hope to stay at ATT as I thoroughly enjoy working here.

Martin Sexton, Assistant Faculty Leader for Business, Health & Computing

Working for ATT has given me many opportunities to progress my career. A move from Westbourne Academy to Mildenhall College Academy 5 years ago gave me my first step up from teacher to leading Computer Science. I received an ATT award for STEM which led to me becoming the STEM coordinator. To help develop my career further I now lead Team Network Group meetings with other Computing teachers from across the trust. ATT has also allowed me to develop my skills knowledge through attending a range of CPD with Computing at School, Barefoot, and Digital Schoolhouse all of which are helping to develop my practice.