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CEO Blog – Destinations Champions

CEO Blog – Destinations Champions

  CEO Blog - Destinations Champions I can't quite believe that we've made it to December already, but here we are, and the countdown to Christmas is well and truly underway! This week, I would like to point you all in the direction of our newest New Bridge...

CEO Blog – 24.11.23

CEO Blog – 24.11.23

CEO Blog - 24.11.23 Happy Friday, everyone. I'm keeping it brief this week, but I wanted to give you an update on what's been going on behind the scenes at New Bridge... I met with the Directors at New Bridge Horizons, talking about the exciting partnerships we build...

CEO Blog – 17.11.23

CEO Blog – 17.11.23

CEO Blog - 17.11.23 This week has been another busy week for all of us at New Bridge, and I'm proud of our staff teams for pulling together and continuing to offer our students and young people the very best, even when it's already dark by the time most of them are...

CEO Blog – 10.11.23

CEO Blog – 10.11.23

CEO Blog - 10.11.23 This week, it has been good to see each of our sites commemorating Remembrance Day in their own way. The creativity and thought that our staff have put into these 'Remembrance' themed activities is brilliant, and testament to their ingenuity. It...

CEO Blog (3.11.23) – Welcome Back

CEO Blog (3.11.23) – Welcome Back

CEO Blog (3.11.23) - Welcome Back To everyone who has just had half term, I want to say, 'welcome back', and that I hope you had the opportunity to spend some quality time with friends and family over the break. This first term is usually the toughest, and the October...

Graham
Can I take this opportunity to welcome everyone back to our schools and centres? I trust you have all had a wonderful break. I know many of the staff team have worked over the Summer vacation to ensure that we are ready for the challenges that will no doubt come our way. I’d personally like to thank these teams who ensure that all of the ‘compliance’ issues are dealt with so that the teams who work directly with our children and young people can use all their energies to plan, organise, teach and assess our learners.

This has been the busiest Summer I have ever known. We have admitted over 100 new children and young people into our schools and have had to recruit over 50 new staff. I’d like to welcome you all to our Trust. We know that New Bridge and Hollinwood Academy will be subject to Ofsted inspections this year. I am certain that both will perform particularly well.

The new Ofsted framework relies heavily on information being available on our websites. Our teams are redesigning our websites and we would welcome any feedback and suggestions that you may have here. The new Spring Brook Academy websites will be launching soon and we have changed the main page at www.newbridgegroup.org to better reflect all the different areas of our growing Trust; from there you can navigate to the school your child attends. We hope it is easier to understand and more importantly gives you all the information that you need. I know that families have really enjoyed seeing pictures, videos and updates on Facebook and we are hoping to keep you all informed in a similar way this year.

From a personal perspective I am hoping that schools will now have a period of stability. Last year many of my blogs centred on politics rather than education. I really hope that school and trust leaders can support our colleagues by improving teaching and learning rather than constantly liaising with politicians and civil servants!

Anyway, it’s a really short blog this week – I still think I’m on a beach in Turkey!! Have a great weekend,

Graham

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