I am delighted that you are considering a future at Iveshead School for your child.

It is a very exciting time for our school. Iveshead was been formed from the merger of two highly respected and successful schools – Shepshed High School and Hind Leys College. The result is the creation of one ‘through’ school where students have the opportunity to study seamlessly from age 11 through to 19, within one extremely well resourced campus.

We have built on the reputation and results we have achieved in recent years and continue to provide a caring place of learning for our students. Here they can develop the skills and confidence they need to make their way through to the next stage of their lives whether that is higher education, an apprenticeship or employment.

The character of our school can be defined by our three core values – ‘respect’, ‘enrich’, ‘succeed’. We offer a supportive and welcoming community environment with respect for all, a dedicated staff and a strong blend of activities, which create an enriching and successful education for all students at Iveshead.

I am incredibly proud to be Headteacher here. I hope that after finding out more about our school you will want to visit us and I look forward to meeting you.

Judith Johnson, Head of School

Our Trust was created in 2014 and like a lot of trusts at the time, built a very strong central support offer for schools first.

Our Trust changed direction in June 2017 to focus entirely on school improvement and is built around the fundamental premise that schools should be better as a result of being in a trust. We do not aim to just ‘manage’ a school’s central services: we aim to help the school to improve rapidly, even if its current performance is strong. It is our ambition that all of our schools will be recognised as performing at an outstanding level by their local community, and by other external agencies. We have built our school improvement model around this simple ambition.

As a head teacher leadership team, we have built a very strong sense of moral purpose – where we share responsibility and accountability for all the schools in our trust. We also work collaboratively to ensure that all of our schools thrive. For example, head teachers have organised secondments between them as a way to hold on to their most talented teachers. We also recognise that we will only thrive by being able to tap into the strengths of the entire team. This has led to a very distributed model of leadership, where a head teacher is responsible for running their school, but also leads an aspect of trust school improvement. We are determined to offer every person the right opportunities. We do not want to be a trust that does things to its schools. We want the best people in our schools to lead the way – and have room and space to scale up their impact!

By joining us, you will be buying into our culture which is centred entirely around our vision: Children First. As a Trust, we work together to ensure that EVERY single young person has the very best chance to thrive. The benefit of being in a trust is that the resource and opportunity to benefit pupils is multiplied many times.

To find out more about the Trust, please click here.