Dixons Manningham

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We’ve just launched our new Instagram account! 🎉
Follow us for the latest stories, celebrations, and behind-the-scenes moments from our academy.
First up: sneak peeks from our Year 6 residential to Buckden House! 📸✨
Join us on Instagram: https://t.co/2bUX6DY63M

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"Data is just data until you decide what to do with it."

The final episode of our meetings #OpenSource series is here. Discover how we turn insight into action through our cycle review, align our strategic priorities and focus on what matters most for the next 13 weeks.

Watch👇

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🎨 Journey is now live!
Explore our annual virtual art exhibition featuring incredible artwork from students across 20+ Dixons academies, from Reception to Sixth Form.
Celebrate their creativity, talent and artistic journeys.

View the exhibition: https://t.co/XjvkKiOyr5

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Some of our primary students gave their all in a Matilda the musical medley 🎭
So impressive to say how young these children are! Showing so much courage 🤩

#DixonsCollaborationConcert2026

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"We spend two days at the end of every cycle doing the thing that feels least urgent: slowing down."

Our latest OpenSource episode explores why stepping back to review data, observations and priorities is one of the most valuable things a school can do 💡

Watch below 👇

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In this week's OpenSource episode, we take a look inside one of the most important rituals in our operating rhythm: cycle review.

Every 13 weeks, we dedicate two days to stepping back, reviewing the evidence and ensuring we're solving the right problems 💡

Watch below 👇

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💡“The meeting where we get the most done has no pre-set agenda, a stopwatch, and up to 20 people across four cities.”

In this week's OpenSource episode, we unpack the weekly tactical meeting that has become the operational heartbeat of our organisation.

Watch below 👇

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The most important meeting of the day might only take 10 minutes.

No slides. No strategy. Just a quick team huddle to align priorities, spot issues early and keep the day running smoothly.

We call it Run the Day. Patrick Lencioni calls it the "what's for dinner?" meeting.👇

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@Dixonscr @dixonsmnp would like to thank Mrs Saqid! 👩‍🏫🍎

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Your meetings are exposing your leadership team.

In the first episode of our brand new OpenSource series, we explore why meetings are the clearest reflection of organisational health, and why great organisations don't leave them to chance.

Watch episode one 👇

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This week, we’re re-sharing an OpenSource episode with Dixons Unity, where Sarah Clynes and Angi Germain discuss building a true community hub through their Unity Community initiative, supporting local families and strengthening connections beyond the classroom 💚

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🔁 We’re continuing to re-share our civic responsibility mini-series:

Jim Lauder, Trust Civic Responsibility Lead, gives an overview of our work to amplify student voice and support young people to challenge educational and social disadvantage in our communities.

📽️ Re-watch 👇

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🔁 Throwback to one of our OpenSource episodes:

Jim Lauder, Trust Assistant Principal for Civic Responsibility, shares how we’re giving students and families a real voice, building community hubs, and strengthening local partnerships.

📽️Worth a (re) watch 👇

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Final episode in our series on flexible working 💼✨
Flexibility can’t stop with teachers - at Dixons, it also applies to our associate staff. #WorkplaceFlexibility #Education

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What if one change kept 50 more teachers in classrooms: in a single year?

At Dixons Academies Trust, our nine-day fortnight cut turnover by 43%, reduced absence, and increased applications.

But the real impact? Energised teachers. Better outcomes for students.

🎥 Episode 4 👇

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Exploring a nine-day fortnight in schools? 👀The biggest risk isn’t ambition, it’s underestimating the design work.

Key lessons:
📌 Start with principles
📅 Use a two-week timetable
👥 Group days off
⏳ Protect staff time
🔁 Test and reset

Watch this week's episode below 👇

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A nine-day fortnight only works if you redesign the system.

You can’t squeeze 10 days of work into 9 and call it flexibility.

Learn more in our latest OpenSource episode below 👇

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🚀 New series alert!

What would make teaching sustainable again?

In episode one of our new flexible working series, we explore why we introduced a nine-day fortnight, not a trend, but a response to the growing recruitment & retention crisis.

📅 Launching Monday. Stay tuned!

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💭Barristers practise. Surgeons practise. Why wouldn’t teachers?

In this the final episode in our OpenSource mission map series, we unpack the non-negotiable: socialisation. We rehearse the fundamentals until they’re automatic, and reset when culture drifts. Watch below 📽️👇

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Ramadan Mubarak to all of our community observing this holy month🌙

May this Ramadan bring you peace, reflection, and spiritual growth. We wish you a meaningful month filled with reflection, connection, and blessings.

#Ramadan #RamadanMubarak #Ramadan2026 #Community #Kindness

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“We all know what we mean” causes cultural drift.

High-performing cultures are built on shared clarity, not mind-reading. Clarity is kindness. Structure liberates. Discover how micro-scripts create calm, focus and alignment.

🎥 Watch this week's OpenSource episode below 👇