WISE Academies

Wise Academies Trust
FoundedFebruary 8, 2011 (2011-02-08)
TypeMulti-academy trust
Registration no.07521946
FocusEducation
Location
  • Borodin Avenue, Sunderland SR5 4NX [1]
Coordinates54°55′33″N 1°25′27″W / 54.9258°N 1.4241°W / 54.9258; -1.4241
Key people
Zoe Carr, CEO[2]
Fiona Hardie, former CFO
Websitewiseacademies.co.uk
UID 5370

Wise Academies Trust formerly the Bexhill and Town End Academies Limited is a multi-academy trust (MAT) that operates twelve schools with academy status across northern England: all are primary schools.[1] It is an exempt charity, regulated by the Department for Education.[3]

Philosophy

Headteachers should be leaders of learning, and issues of finance, estate management, governance, HR and IT should be handled by a shared back- office team of professionals.[4] Getting the correct leadership in place is important. The CEO will fill in as a headteacher if necessary until the right candidate is found. Children must start the primary school ready to learn; this means enabling them with quality pre-school education, giving each child the experiences provided by the most advantaged parents. Pre-schools are set up and use the Launchpad to Literacy skills based approach. Attendance problems challenge progress. One method of being pro-active is to use a walking bus That is led by a teacher.[2]

History

The trust was founded in 2011 with just two school and expanded to take on Hastings Hill and over extended itself to take on Welbeck which has financial difficulties. The CEO came back from maternity leave in 2013 and employed a qualified accountant, Fiona Hardie, as Chief Financial Officer. They established a new professional accounting system whereby all the schools used one central finance office- and the only delegated power was petty cash, and that had a top limit of £50. Though salaries was outsourced, financial planning was done by the finance officer. In one school, with falling rolls the salaries used up 103% of the budget.[2] The finances were sorted by creating two mixed classes; years 3-4 and 5–6. Two teachers were redeployed to other schools in the academy.

Carr received an OBE that December. More schools joined WISE, none were refused because of demographics or location, but only when the member schools didn't have the financial capability to absorb them.[2]

In a YouTube video made for Department for Education (DfE) in 2017, Carr and Hardie explained the approach they used in the next four years. As more schools joined the group, more staff were taken on centrally to handle the complex education bureaucracy.[4]

Academies

These are all primary academies.

  • Bexhill
  • Town End
  • Welbeck
  • Hastings Hill [2]
  • Haltwistle
  • Prudhoe West
  • Adderlane
  • Croftway
  • Shaftoe Trust
  • Northview
  • Malvin's Close
  • Morpeth Road [1]
  • Town End Teaching School Alliance

References

  1. ^ a b c "WISE ACADEMIES - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e Murray, Catherine (3 July 2018). "Profile | Zoe Carr, CEO, WISE Academies". Schools Week. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Regulation of schools and academies with exempt charity status". gov.uk. Department for Education. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b Archives, The National. "The National Archives - Department for Education (DfE) - WISE Academies - Maintaining Good Financial Health | Video Archive - UK Government Web Archive". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.

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