Victoria Academies is an established primary-only multi academy trust created on 1st January 2014. Led by our chief executive, Andrew Morrish, we continue to build a family of like-minded schools who share our passion for real, immersive and purposeful learning. As a result we have a proven track-record for transforming our schools. Our academies are currently situated in a number of local authorities across the West Midlands including Staffordshire, Birmingham, Sandwell, Walsall and Worcestershire. All of our schools are within a one-hours’ drive of each other.
Our core purpose – our reason for being – is to make our people become the best they can be. We have an audacious and ambitious goal that drives all that we do: To be most known as a trust that transforms its academies into brilliant, pioneering schools that stand-out through innovation and social change.
Our vision statement aims to describe the future by setting out how we intend to meet our audacious stand-out goal. It is values-led and serves to describe what it will be like to achieve our goal. We attempt to describe it in such a way that it becomes tangible and real.
In a way, our vision becomes our charter, a written statement of intent consisting of six key elements:
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Having been transformed from special measures to outstanding in exactly 1000 days, our DfE-approved sponsor school (Victoria Park Academy) brings a unique understanding of the challenges schools face in transforming the life chances of the families we serve. Our academies will have the highest expectations of our pupils ensuring they stand out as powerful learners and future leaders. Our values serve us well as we continue to focus on family, insist on excellence, do good as we go, embrace innovation and seize success. Academies that join the trust are expected to show a clear commitment to these values. In order to achieve these behaviors we expect everyone involved in our schools to be loyal, tenacious, brilliant, courageous and kind.
We are a unique trust. We are entirely independent and consist solely of like-minded schools that share a passion for innovation. Typically, at any one time almost half of our schools have been in special measures at some point and are on the journey to standing out. We are committed to enabling each individual school to flourish with a high degree of autonomy whilst at the same time providing a culture of collaboration and mutual support.
Trust us to create stand-out schools.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Now go out and change the world. — Walt Disney