St Leonard’s CE Academy

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We celebrated Earth Day this week and thought about how we can tackle environmental challenges that damage our planet. These are just some of things we did. Our power, our planet #EarthDay26

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What a first week back our Trust has had. We welcomed Sarah Bloomer who is our new Director of Safeguarding and Sharon Dickman who is our new Head of People. They have had a brilliant start and have achieved so much already. The ability and quality of staff in our whole central team is something that I am immensely proud of and together we will take our Trust to such a strong place.

We have formed another partnership within our Trust, joining two more schools together with an executive Head. This has allowed one of our Heads to move to a school that was without leadership. Such a wonderful opportunity for staff to develop and grow. Thank you to Sarah Young NPQH and Sarah Evans 

We now have 6 schools with executive heads, allowing excellent leadership to be spread across many establishments, joining our vision together and creating financial stability for our schools. This has grown from 2 schools in the last year.

We have a new logo which we are proud of, and it has been great to hear from staff how much they like it.

Our amazing Director of Education Vicki Morrall FCCT has worked with the schools making the leadership moves smooth, liaising with Governors, staff and parents. She has so much to celebrate that she has already achieved in just one term such as…
- brilliant subject networks
- writing Moderation, subject leadership in Maths, English, DSL, SEND, EYFS, Key Stage, RE. - focused professional discussions at school visits on standards, curriculum development, target setting and progress to targets
- SEND Ladders to track progress in small steps
- Ofsted SEF template
- writing assessments have been aligned across all schools
- ‘Great Habits of Teaching and Learning’ document is in draft form and
- education Strategy is in draft form

Looking forward to a successful and busy term

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Proud to support #Place2Be #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek to create inclusive and nurturing environments where our pupils feel that they belong and can say “This is my place”

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Big birthdays are always celebrated at St Leonard’s. Happy Birthday Mrs Parish, we are very lucky to have such a brilliant school kitchen manager! 🎉

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This week has made me so proud. The lived values between our staff was in abundance. Care and support for our schools brought many to tears this week and from colleagues outside of our Trust. I have watched leaders strive forward and show relentless drive. The best part being able to see the impact this is having on pupils we serve.

Happy 60th to Gilly Riach who also got lots of nominations for her care, guidance and support from our heads and central team.

We finished the week with a fabulous day with our heads and central team. We looked at education, reaching higher attendance, how to achieve our aspirational targets, what is going well and what we can develop.

It is just over a year on from us centralising Finance. It was great to talk through how well this is now working, how we have worked through teething issues and how this is enabling our head teachers to focus on education.

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Christmas Fayre time.. come and join us. 11-2. 🎄🎄

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Children in Need ready.. high quality continuous provision in reception class!

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Come and join our team. This is a wonderful role.

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Today at Manshead CE Academy Amjad Ali delivered CPD to staff across the MAT and Manshead on adaptive teaching. All sessions were very beneficial to our staff both teaching and support staff.

On my CEO walk around Manshead today I could see these strategies being put into practice. Super atmosphere around the school and engagement in lessons.

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Come and join our wonderful team and growing Multi Academy Trust.

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In 1846 the wonderful school, St Leonard’s opened and in September 2025 they joined the Diocese of St Albans Multi Academy Trust. We are so proud to be custodians and we look forward to supporting the staff and pupils to flourish within our great trust.

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