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Published: 3:42 PM April 28, 2021    Updated: 6:17 PM April 28, 2021 Pupils at Diss Primary Academy, which is part of the St Benet’s Multi Academy Trust. - Credit: St Benet’s MAT Norfolk schools that are not part of academy trusts will be offered a period of “try before you buy” in an effort to entice more of them to leave council control, the education secretary has said. In a speech to the Confederation of School Trusts' virtual conference, Gavin Williamson said all schools should join academy chains in a bid to replace the current "pick and mix" system with a "single model" scho...

All schools in England 'should become academies' in a bid to end the current 'pick and mix' system, Gavin Williamson has said. The Education Secretary believes the pandemic has shown that it is 'no longer viable for schools to be single entities' as they need the 'safety net of a strong family'. In a speech to the Confederation of School Trusts' virtual conference, Mr Williamson said he wanted to work towards a 'single model' school system where 100 per cent of pupils across the country are taught in academies. He announced plans for a 'try before you buy' scheme to allow schools to link up w...

PUPILS and staff at staff at ten schools in York and North Yorkshire have embraced their inner poets. Hundreds and pupils and staff got involved with a poetry competition which looked forward to life after lockdown – with all proceeds from the sale of a poetry book publishing their efforts going to children’s charity the NSPCC. The ten Ebor Academy Trust school which took part include York primary schools Hob Moor, Lakeside, Osbaldwick, Park Grove and Robert Wilkinson, plus schools in Camblesforth, Tadcaster, Brotherton, Hull and Scarborough. Winners and runners-up collected book ...

Commissioners approve open bidding for its largest grazed landholding -Colorado State Land Board DENVER — At its monthly, public meeting, the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners voted to offer the 86,211-acre Chico Basin Ranch for a 10-year agriculture grazing lease to one operator via a public competitive bid process in 2023. The Colorado State Land Board has existed since statehood to steward Colorado’s working trust lands on behalf of Colorado public schools. The agency owns 2.8 million acres of trust land — commonly called school section land — and has earned $2 billion in ...

Great Hollands Primary School (Bracknell) Speaking in a video on the trust’s website, Angie Morrish, chair of trustees at the Berkshire School Trust, and Angharad Brackstone, CEO of BST, have outlined the reasoning behind the plans. Ms Morrish said the last year of coping with Covid-19 has enabled the trustees to spend time considering the future of BST and realise their financial vulnerability. Ms Brackstone said the trust has been working very closely with Maiden Erlegh Trust in the past year and both trusts recently concluded that combining the two trusts would create an “effecti...