Our Trust Educational Visits Coordinator and Science Teacher at Harrogate Grammar School, Joanne Sutcliffe, reflects on the value of school trips, not just for students but for the colleagues who make them possible.
In this inspiring case study, Mrs Lisa Seton, Headteacher at Templenewsam Halton Primary School, shares how a bold rethink of professional development has transformed both staff growth and pupil outcomes.
Richard Sheriff, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the Red Kite Learning Trust has made the decision to retire from his leadership position and look to pursue his many other interests both within and beyond education.
All Red Kite Learning Trust and Red Kite Education colleagues are warmly invited to join us for our Red Kite Foundation Reservoir walk to raise funds for the Red Kite Foundation.
We are proud to share the news that Rossett School has been rated ‘Good’ in all areas by Ofsted, marking a major milestone in the school’s improvement journey.
Headteacher of Whitkirk Primary School shares how she has transformed outcomes through technology, with a strategic approach to raising attainment in a budget-constrained primary school.
Whitkirk Primary School are delighted to announce that it has been awarded £146,980.79 in government funding to establish a brand-new school-based nursery, set to open its doors in September 2025.
On Wednesday 26 March, Red Kite Learning Trust proudly hosted a special open evening to launch its latest Art Exhibition, featuring stunning artwork created by students from Rossett School. This exhibition highlights the artistic talent of Year 9, 10, and 12 students.
Saltergate Schools are proud to officially become part of Red Kite Learning Trust as of 1st April 2025. This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the school community, strengthening opportunities for collaboration, support, and educational excellence.
Oatlands Junior School is celebrating the outstanding results published in its latest Ofsted report.
Rossett School is delighted to announce a new and exciting partnership with Harrogate Town AFC, which will see our school become the home of the newly established Harrogate Town Football Academy.
Red Kite Learning Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Jonathan Timmis OBE as Chief Operating Officer (COO)
CEO of Red Kite Learning Trust, Richard Sheriff talks about the “tricky balancing act” of deciding whether to close schools during ‘snow days’ and the toll of abuse teachers face on social media.
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Rossett School and The Sixth Form at Harrogate Grammar School work in partnership within the Red Kite Learning Trust family of academies. By working together, the partnership offers a greater breadth of provision.
We are delighted to annouce that the DfE has approved the proposal for Saltergate Schools to join our Trust.
As we approach the end of the academic year we want to share some of our Cluster Team highlights, successes and feedback from the past year.
ed Kite Foundation is designed to enhance the life experiences and opportunities of children in its care facing challenging circumstances.
Rossett Acre Primary School has achieved the School Games PLATINUM Mark Award for the 2023/24 academic year.
Leeds Manufacturing Festival’s Women in Manufacturing event, held in May at Crawshaw Academy, was designed to provide inspiration and insight into the industry, bringing 160 girls from across the school together with a panel of nine women working in a range of professional roles in West Yorkshire manufacturing businesses.
With five secondary schools serving very diverse catchments we have looked to achieve a state of ‘aligned autonomy’ which celebrates the difference of our schools and allows leaders at all levels to make decisions which best serve their communities.
As part of Red Kite Learning Trust’s Rewilding Project, children from the eco-committee at Rossett Acre Primary School in Harrogate got out mapping the habitats in their school grounds last month
Year 5 and 6 boys from Oatlands Junior School victorious at Yorkshire Dynamo County Finals 2024
Following its recent Ofted inspection, Colton Primary was described as a 'school where anything is possible' and rated as 'Outstanding.
Our schools are all part of Red Kite Learning Trust, a multi academy of 14 schools who benefit from centralised support and collaboration.
Our Youth Board have been discussing rewilding, sustainability, election plans and the first Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics.
The first Red Kite Learning Trust Olympics took place this week with year 5 and 6 pupils from all our Trust schools competing in a number of sporting events.
We are excited to showcase the first art exhibition in our Trust Central Office and recently welcomed the Oatlands Junior School and Trust community to a special Open Evening.
This week, our Chair Trustees, Chris Tulley, and our CEO, Richard Sheriff, sent an open letter to local MPs and other senior politicians and executives in
the Department for Education about school funding.
Last month, Maths Leads from all our primary schools came together to collaborate and share best practice.
We are delighted to report that Western Primary School remains 'Outstanding' in its latest Ofsted report.
An exciting occassion for Temple Moor Sixth Form as the steel work for the expansion was installed and the bones of the building started to take shape.
Welcome back! It hasn't quite felt like the summer term at points this week and we've had all the seasons at drop off and pick up, but it has been great to see everybody back in school for the third and final term of the year.
If you are looking for a place for your child in September 2024, Temple Learning Academy in Leeds has places available.
Our Red Kite Learning Trust Youth Board met again earlier this month. Read all about their meeting and initiatives our young people are working on.
Rossett Acre Primary School has been awarded the Red Kite Alliance RED Award recognising the schools’ culture of inclusion.
This term, our Youth Board met up to discuss rewilding initiatives, Trust-wide sustainability, improving attendance and ideas for future meeting agendas.
We are delighted that TLA is the very first school in the UK to have a Story Cube, inspiring young writers and even staff to embrace reading and writing for pleasure.
Keen to learn from our young people, to give them a voice and an opportunity to help shape the future of our Trust, last year we set up our Red Kite Youth Board. Read our latest update.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Parents and Carers Consultations. It was wonderful to see so many of you and to share the successes of the term so far.
Meadowfield Primary School's Staff and students have developed an Eco Vision and Strategy working towards being more environmentally friendly and raising awareness of the harmful effects of plastic.
This week the children have been celebrating Harvest Festival and learning about firework safety.
Red Kite Learning Trust are holding a Recruitment Open Day where you can find out more about current teaching and operational career opportunities available across our Trust.
On 19th and 20th September, Temple Learning Academy welcomed Ofsted inspectors into school. Whilst the findings of this visit are yet to be published, staff described the experience as very positive and praised the impeccable behaviour of pupils as they enthused to inspectors about their school.
Ofsted has confirmed that Oatlands Junior School continues to be a ‘Good’ school with evidence to suggest that the school could be judged outstanding if we were to carry out a graded inspection now.
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We would like to extend an extra special welcome to our new families, joining reception, nursery and higher up school too. We have had a great start to the new term and the children have settled back into school very well.
As a new academic year begins, Rossett School and Red Kite Learning Trust celebrate the beginning of a mutually beneficial partnership, with Rossett becoming the 14th school to join the multi academy trust.
Friday 20th October at 9:15am and Tuesday 24th October at 14:30.
In this year’s report we have chosen to celebrate the successes of our schools, communities, colleagues, and young people by telling some of the stories from across our Trust.
In July 2023 we were delighted to be awarded the full Healthy Schools Award. This reflects our commitment to promoting Healthy lifestyles amongst our students across the areas of PSHE, Physical Activity, SEMH and Food.
Welcome Back! I hope you all enjoyed a lovely half-term break. The children have certainly liked sharing what they have been up to over the holiday with me, throughout this week
We are delighted to be able to share with you the findings from our latest OFSTED. Meadowfield has been judged GOOD with OUTSTANDING areas.
On Thursday, last week, we held a New Starters Information meeting for parents/carers’ of children who will join us in September. The event was well attended and it was great sharing information about our school and enabling those present to have a look at our Early Years classrooms and meet the teachers.
This week has been a little strange, the bank holiday and industrial action has caused the days to meld into one and nobody is quite sure what day it is! However, the children have been working hard and lots has been going on.
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Are you looking for a Nursery place? We are a caring and friendly family team who want the very best for your child’s education.
Welcome back, I hope you all had a restful half term.
Thank you for your donations towards the Turkey-Syria earthquake appeal on Friday before half term. We collected £250 which we have passed on the appeal.
Next week we are celebrating World Book Week in school and we have been fortunate enough to purchase about 50 new Little People Big Dreams Books using the money from September's Sponsored Read.
Welcome back, everyone. I hope you had a lovely half term break.
Here’s the last Headteacher update from Coppice Valley for this half term. We’ll see you all after the holidays on Monday 20th February.
I can’t quite believe that we have reached the end of another half term! It has been a busy week in school with lots of exciting things taking place.
We raised an amazing amount for Simon on the Streets, we would like to thank all the parents who were involved.
Wow—what a great term we have had! So many successes especially with writing which is our main focus. I am very excited to see what 2023 holds for us all.
All interested schools are invited to attend our two information evenings in January.
Next week sees the start of our Christmas concerts and we hope to see as many of you as possible
Welcome to December everyone! It was great to see so many people at our Christmas Fair on Wednesday and we hope you had a great time.
Whitkirk Primary would like to say a HUGE thank you to a family in Year 1 for their incredibly generous donation towards our preventative, safeguarding Personal, Social, and Health Education, (PSHE) curriculum.
Another busy and productive time at Meadowfield! The weather keeps threatening to spoil our fun but we are not letting it.
Meadowfield showed our respects last Friday with each class contributing a wreath to our remembrance garden to be placed alongside our Tommy soldier.
Last week, a selection of Meadowfield's Year 1 children went to the local care home to deliver and read their story books written in class.
What a great week and we ended it today with such a special remembrance assembly—held to ensure we never forget the sacrifices made by so many for our country.
All at Whitkkirk Primary were in awe on Tuesday as Mason, the newly elected Leeds Children's Mayor, met King Charles.
Ahead of the Brake National Road Safety Week (14th-20th November), and in
partnership with Harrogate Fire Station, we are delighted to present our ‘Safe
Roads for All’ Poster Competition!
We are now welcoming visits to Meadowfield Primary School to view our setting.
This week at Western, we have been celebrating Black History Month.
Year 2 at Meadowfield went to The Deep in Hull last week and had an amazing time.
What a brilliant and busy first half term to the year we have had.
The children have lovely exploring the Valley Gardens looking for signs of Autumn.
Check out what's happening at Western....
During this week at Meadowfield Primary we have been working hard on our writing wth the help of Ross Young from the Writing for Pleasure project
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We’ve received some lovely messages in response to our cards we made for the Queen’s passing
Friday 7th October 2022
Get active whilst helping combat climate change!
It’s been a busy year for Arts Committee and Art with three major artworks created and a lot to catch up on.
We're proud to present our Annual Report for 2021-2022. View online here.
CARING ABOUT TODAY, CREATING SUCCESSFUL TOMORROWS.
PB (our polar bear) stands on an iceberg made of 62 eco-bricks, each containing approx. 500-550g of single use plastic.
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After an incredible amount of hard work from all teaching staff and especially Mr Evans, we found out this week that we have been awarded the PSQM!
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Addressing how to ‘Close the Reading Gap’
Thursday, 24 March 2022 18:30 – 19:30
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Developed to support schools to review, strengthen and celebrate their provision in terms of equality, diversity, respect for individuals and community cohesion
We are delighted to welcome Amanda Lightfoot, Head teacher at Austhorpe Primary School, will look at Early Reading Strategies used at Austhorpe.
This event is free to attend and is suitable for school leaders, teachers, other school staff and governors.
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We are raising £5,000 to collect and re-purpose laptops and tablets
