NET Academies Trust is a family of six academies: Latton Green Primary Academy, Katherines Primary Academy, Longwood Primary Academy and Nursery, Jerounds Primary Academy, Abbotsweld Primary Academy and Waltham Holy Cross Primary Academy.

They have now announced that Harlowbury Primary, Fawbert and Barnard and Tanys Dell have all joined their group.

A NET Academies spokesperson said: “Across the trust and all our schools, our over-riding focus is on ensuring the children get the best possible education and care, and our decision-making is always guided by that objective. Our collaboration as a network of academies, and the benefits that come from that, has been really important in our success, and this success has been a team effort, with everyone playing a key part – pupils, governors, trustees, staff and you, our parents and carers. So we want to thank you for your invaluable support.

We always want to maintain our ongoing improvement and recently have been exploring how merging with another academy trust can help take us to the next level. NET is a small trust, with six schools, and there is much evidence that there are many advantages to being bigger – all, ultimately, in the interest of the pupils.

Therefore, following much careful discussion and extensive consideration, and looking at several options, we are considering a merger with Templefields Multi Academy Trust (TMAT). TMAT consists of three primary academies in Harlow, has the same values as we do and shares the same commitment to high standards. We firmly believe that coming together will mean a number of very important benefits that we already have, will be enhanced:

• Staff will be able to share, and learn from, best practice from new and more colleagues to enrich learning experiences for every child.
• We will be able to offer greater expertise and specialised support for children with special educational needs.
• We will achieve even greater financial efficiencies across shared services like utilities and IT, which means we can invest more in children’s education.
• We will further secure the long-term stability for all schools within the trust.

“We want to emphasise that every school within our expanded Trust would continue to retain its ethos and values. The aim of the partnership is to add new opportunities to what we already do”.

Click below for more details.

https://netacademiestrust.greenhousecms.co.uk/NET–TMAT-Merger