Lydiard Millicent CE Primary is a one form entry school with approximately 200 pupils age 4-11, situated in the village of Lydiard Millicent in Swindon. It serves both the village itself and the surrounding area, with many families choosing to travel in order for their children to attend the school. The school was purpose built in 2011 and has outstanding facilities including state of the art ICT equipment, a beautiful library, a large hall for PE and concerts, and art and cookery class facilities. The school has been awarded “Good” by Ofsted, with high praise given for its consistently good outcomes through effective teaching and strong pastoral provision. It was also graded as “Outstanding” by SIAMS, with the report stating that “Lydiard Millicent is a school community in which all are enabled to flourish as unique individuals.” The school joined the Trust in December 2015 and formed an alliance with Ridgeway CE Primary in 2016. The schools are run by a shared leadership team and Local Board, allowing for exciting and valuable collaboration.

Ridgeway Farm Church of England Academy is a one-form entry primary school with approximately 190 pupils age 4-11. Situated on the Ridgeway Farm housing development in Swindon, it was newly built and opened as part of the Diocese of Bristol Academies Trust in September 2016. Since then it has quickly grown from three classes to seven, from Early Years Foundation Stage through to Year 6. The school has been awarded “Good” by Ofsted and SIAMs, which reported that the inspirational curriculum involving a range of clubs, visits and residential trips enriches pupils’ spiritual, social and cultural development. The school partnered with Lydiard Millicent CE Academy on opening and the two schools have a shared leadership team and Local Board. Ofsted have commented that this collaboration enables the schools to share good practice which strengthens the quality of teaching and leadership.

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

DBAT families of schools work together on teaching, learning and administrative work, ensuring that collaboration results in improved outcomes in all areas.

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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