Annual Review

The Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust was established in 2015 so that South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College could support the setting up of Hunsley Primary School, the East Riding’s first Free School.  Since then, a further ten schools in the region have joined:

In addition to the twelve schools, the trust also operates Yorkshire Wolds Teacher Training, the only Outstanding SCITT based in East Yorkshire, which is training a new generation of primary and secondary teachers in East Riding and Hull.

At the start of the academic year, an external review of the trust’s governance took place. This involved conversations with various TEAL staff, governors, trustees and members, as well as meeting observations and the assessment of all governance processes. Following the four-month review, we were delighted with the feedback received, and any recommendations shared within the report have since been considered and implemented to help further influence the education of our pupils. Thank you to all staff who were involved during the review.

The Autumn term of 2023 saw a change to our central governance structure. Due to the continuing growth of the trust, it was agreed outsourcing governance activities to York City Council would be more beneficial to our schools. Throughout the year, the York team worked well with our Headteachers and Chairs to build agendas, support with meetings and monitor the training of all members across the trust.

Throughout the year, we said goodbye to some of our long-standing members of the Trust Board and Sub-committees. Anne Barker, Paddy Hall and Andrew Steele played a huge role in TEAL’s growth and decision making and we thank them for all their support over the years.

YWTT also said farewell to Chris Abbott, Chair of the Strategic Board after completion of her term of office, Chris was the driving force behind the decision to launch YWTT and we wish to thank her for everything she has done. 

Staffing remained stable throughout the academic year and retention rates have continued to be high.  Teaching vacancies have continued to be advertised to Yorkshire Wolds Teacher Training colleagues where possible (in line with our trust policy).

As ever, we should congratulate all of our students for performing strongly across all our schools, having faced significant disruption before and during their GCSE years.  This disruption included periods of lockdown, high levels of Covid-19 cases, regular isolation both individually and as cohorts.  There can be little doubt that this has had a significant impact on student outcomes not just in our schools but across all schools nationally.  This year saw more variability in outcomes across our schools, especially those where attendance has been more of a challenge; this pattern is repeated regionally and nationally.

Nationally, the pattern of results emerging shows that in schools and communities with higher levels of disadvantage and higher levels of absence, results have been lower.  Conversely, where schools have a higher number of pupils who are not disadvantaged, had plenty of support outside school during the pandemic and have attended well, those pupils and schools have done well.

Year 1 Phonics pass rate = 82% / National = 80%

Year 6 achieving expected standards in RWM = 66% / National = 61%

Year 11 achieving English and maths at 4 or above = 67% / National = 65%

Year 11 disadvantaged pupils Attainment 8 = 35.5 / National = 35.0

Progress 8 = -0.05 / East Riding (-0.13) & Hull = (-0.52)

Year 11 grades at 9-7 = 19% / East Riding & Hull = 17%

Year 11 grades at 9-5 = 53% / East Riding & Hull = 50%

Sixth Form Average Points Score per A level = 34.5 / East Riding = 32.2

We have our dedicated TEAL Strategy 2024-28 and to focus our work in the 5 key areas of our strategy, we wish to make a series of promises about what young people and adults who are party of the TEAL family will experience and what we will deliver for our communities and for the school system.  These promises are intentionally highly ambitious; we may not achieve them all but for the next four years we will focus all our work on delivering them and it will become the mission of leaders, trustees and governors and everyone who works for TEAL to deliver this strategy and truly fulfil our core purpose.