Core Purpose

Wellsway Multi Academy Trust’s purpose is to ensure that each academy within the trust achieves outstanding outcomes and high standards in all aspects of its work, so that children and young people receive a first class education that enables them to realise their potential and leave school as confident, caring and well-rounded individuals.

We will achieve this through excellent teaching that challenges and inspires and through providing enrichment opportunities that support each child’s development. We want children and young people to enjoy school and to have positive experiences they will remember for the rest of their lives.

We will build a strong and cohesive identity for our trust whilst recognising that each academy within the Trust has its own unique characteristics. Through collaboration and joint working, we will ensure that all our academies share in, and benefit from, each other’s strengths

Values –

Our aim as a multi academy trust is to work together to:

The Governance structure at Wellsway Multi Academy Trust is best illustrated by the following diagram:

The Board of Trustees – the Board is responsible for setting high standards and levels of student achievement and for monitoring performance and ensuring accountability.   It is tasked with driving continuous improvement through regular review planning and evaluation activities.  It also manages  corporate communication and stakeholder engagement.   Once strategies have been agreed, the Board delegates most operational activity to the Executive Leadership Team.

There are four Trust standing committees which have duties to support the Board of Trustees in these responsibilities, to focus on the delivery of the vision against the Trust’s standards and engage with stakeholders internally and externally to ensure that their needs are being met, as follows:

Finance & Estates Committee:

The committee’s core functions cover all financial services and estates management. It has a critical role in overseeing budget formulation, monitoring, and treasury management. Its financial functions extend into value for money and procurement. It also has a wider brief covering asset and facilities management.

Audit & Risk Committee:

This committee has a number of core functions that include internal controls, external and internal audit, fraud, risk management and health and safety. The committee also receives and considers in detail the statutory accounts for the Trust and recommends them to the Board of Trustees for approval prior to presentation to Trust Members at the AGM. It also recommends the appointment of the external auditors to the Board of Trustees for subsequent approval by the Trust Members at the AGM.

HR Committee:

This committee’s role is to oversee all matters relating to strategies and policies for human resources and organisational development. It also has a wider brief in monitoring key performance indicators such as staff turnover and absence and promoting and monitoring staff wellbeing. The committee has a remuneration sub committee to review a framework for the remuneration, benefits and incentives of the executive team.

Education and Standards Committee:

This committee's core functions are in relation to the overall performance, attainment and achievement of the Trust's academies. It has a wider brief to include curriculum, governance effectiveness and monitoring of high performing and disadvantaged groups.

Academy Governance Committees (AGC):

The Board has also established committees known as Academy Governance Committees for each academy within the Trust.  Their role is to oversee all matters relating to students’ learning and well­being. The core functions of an AGC cover all factors which relate to, and underpin, good teaching and learning. It has a critical role in monitoring the progress and impact of personalised learning interventions to ensure high standards and student outcomes in line with the Trust’s vision and strategy. 

The Board of Trustees (Directors)