The Wichelstowe Trinity Learning Campus is the heart of learning and community engagement in the new Wichelstowe development.

Kingfisher CE Academy and The Deanery CE Academy is (to all intents and purposes) an all-through school, under a single leadership and management structure, a single staff, and single Academy Council focused on the provision of the highest quality, sector-leading education which is underpinned by our distinctive Christian foundation and vision for education, and our outstanding community-focused activities. Leading in Swindon and the surrounding area in lifelong learning, with 2 – 18+ years educational provision, regional and national sporting and arts centres of excellence, adult-learning, all within an integrated campus providing wrap-around care, out-of-hours and enhanced provision for all children, young people, and for the community.

The campus site operates as a single entity, reflecting the shared provision and ethos established through the original design and layout of the schools and environment. This will enable further access for the children and young people, and the community to an extended facilities offer on site, growing the provision to meet our aim for sporting, arts and community excellence.

The Deanery CE Academy

The Deanery CE Academy is a new school, in the heart of Wichelstowe with the most amazing facilities, inspirational staff and incredible students. We believe that we have a duty to enable all our students to flourish when they are at school, to enable them to live life in all its fullness - this is the foundation of our ethos and will form a significant part of our dialogue in all aspects of school life.

Kingfisher CE Academy

Kingfisher CE Academy will be a brand-new, state of the art, two-form entry primary school, due to open to Nursery and Reception pupils in September 2021. It will grow incrementally year by year and when full, the school will have 420 pupils age 4-11, plus 76 nursery places. It will serve both the new Wichelstowe development and families from across Swindon. 

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DBAT was founded in 2012, enabling the Diocese of Bristol’s Board of Education to sponsor academies.

The management of its affairs are overseen by its Board of Directors which operates a flexible Scheme of Delegation. This is based on the principle of detailed monitoring against and evaluation of Ofsted and Diocesan Distinctiveness criteria of all academies in the MAT and increasing ‘earned autonomy’ once academies demonstrate they are ‘good’ or better.

Mission Statement

DBAT’s core purposes are to:

• focus on improving the educational experiences, employment prospects and life chances of young people, especially those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds;

• demonstrate that children’s life-chances are improved when their formal education is within the context of an Academy that is founded in the Christian tradition, establishes an ethos that is distinctively Christian and embraces the very best practices in teaching, learning, leadership, management and safety;

• accelerate students’ levels of attainment and achievement, and raises student, teacher and parental aspirations and ambitions;

• help to create more cohesive communities enhancing opportunities for social mobility by striving to eliminate the attainment gap between students from disadvantaged backgrounds and young people who by circumstances of birth and inheritance take for granted their automatic right to a good education;

• transform the overall performance of underperforming schools in deprived areas, helping to improve and innovate in all aspects of teaching, learning and leadership and promoting the development of future leaders.

Vision

Diocese of Bristol Academies Trust (DBAT) aspires to transform the educational landscape of the Diocese, working with all Church academies (including educationally under-performing academies in disadvantaged socio-economic areas) to accelerate student attainment and contribute to community cohesion, so transforming academy performance and students’ life chances through excellent leadership.

Values

DBAT adopts the Diocesan values for schools which is that families of schools collectively meet all students’ needs and are based on the fundamental belief that all students can achieve, succeed and thrive. We own that it is our job to ensure this happens so that:

• Families protect all their member schools

• Families of schools meet the needs of all employees

• Families facilitate knowledge transfer

• Families distribute innovation

• Families save time and money

• Families ensure that all students can achieve, succeed and thrive

• Families deal effectively with special educational needs

• Families support new and existing leaders

• Families embed the capacity to improve/manage change

• Families build leadership capacity and succession

• Families aid the integration of Children’s services

In all Families there will be stronger and weaker partners but all are valued.

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