The Mead Educational Trust

We’re celebrating 2 award-winning schools! 🎉

Congratulations to Kibworth Mead Academy and Kestrel Mead Primary Academy who have both received Pearson National Teaching Awards for teaching excellence!

This is the second consecutive year that Kibworth Mead has received the accolade. Principal, Steve Piggot, says: “This award recognises the hard work and dedication of our fantastic staff who make such a positive difference. I also want to thank all of our students, families, members of our local community, and The Mead Educational Trust for their help and support, without which this recognition would not have been possible."

Meanwhile, the recognition places Kestrel Mead among a very small number of schools nationally to be recognised by the Pearson National Teaching Awards. Principal, Zoe Simpson, says: “It is a tremendous honour and reflects the dedication of our entire community. Everything we do is driven by our commitment to our children and families. Knowing that we are truly living our ABC motto - Achieving Excellence, Belonging and Creating Equity - fills us with immense pride. Our students are incredible. They inspire us every day, and this recognition reinforces our belief that together we are providing the strongest possible start in life.”

This week, we have been shining a light on the volunteers who made a positive impact across our Trust 💡

At Kibworth Mead Academy, the valuable support of volunteers has been momentous at various school events such as:

🌟 The Reading Buddies Programme that helped strengthen students’ reading skills

🌟 An art competition where Four members of the local Rotary Club took the time out to volunteer as judges

🌟 A Speed Networking day for Year 9 students to gain an insight about their careers in the future

'It was good to meet new people and find out about their jobs...'' - student in Year 9

Thank you! 👏

This National Volunteers’ Week, we would like to thank everyone who makes a positive impact across our schools 👇

Whether you are a school reading volunteer, you have supported our employer engagement events, serve as a trustee, or are a member of one of our academy councils 🏫

We appreciate you for your time, commitment, and the difference that you make towards our pupils, staff and school communities 👏🤝

If you’ve tuned into BBC news today, you may have seen Sara McAdam, Director of The Mead Institute, talking about the new ways that we’re trying to attract and retain teachers.

Sara, along with staff at North Mead academy, appeared on BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 4 Today and BBC News programmes as the government revealed that the school workforce has shrunk for the first time since 2019.

At our Leicester & Leicestershire SCITT, we’re focusing on ways to make teacher training more accessible, inclusive, flexible, and compatible with people’s real lives - whether they’re a parent, late stage career changer, or recent graduate. As an organisation, we’re also focusing on improving flexibility for teachers in our schools.

Interviews posted in the comments below 👇

We're so proud of students and staff at Brook Mead Academy for this brilliant solution to creating affordable and sustainable prom outfits! 👏

Students came up with idea of asking their local community, including local businesses, to donate outfits that can be hired by students and altered to fit them perfectly. The outfits will then be returned so that they can be used by students again in future years. 💡

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