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The Havering Festival of Education is back. Clear your diaries & join us for some free, extensive, purposeful CPD opportunities for everyone in education. Registration details coming soon. Look out for information about the speakers we already have lined up.
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It's world book day and we were delighted that our CEO Julian Dutnall has recorded reading a Bedtime story with our LIFE Mascot Zoe Bear, for all our pupils and their friends and family to enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUL... Happy World Book Day Everyone.
#worldbookday #wbd #everyoneflourishes
In 2025 we started the LIFE Million Pages initiative to help improve pupils’ vocabulary & literacy skills. We read over THREE MILLION pages. The winning schools who read the most number of pages per pupil...
1st Place - Margaretting
2nd Place - Roxwell
3rd Place - Holy Trinity
#reading #literacy
Fantastic celebration at Margaretting following their amazing KS2 results; TOP in Maths & Reading in Essex. We thanked Niall Robinson for his role as Assistant Head, welcomed back Sarah Kirk as Head of School, & presented Ops Manager, Sue Monger with a trophy as winner of LMP Apprentice of the Year!
We are so proud of Sue Monger, our Operations Manager for Mid-Essex who has been awarded the LMP Best In Programme - Apprentice of the Year Award. Well done Sue, what a great achievement!
#educationexcellence #apprenticeshipawards #operationsmanager #mutliacademytrust #everyoneflourishes #LMPawards
Yesterday our CEO Julian Dutnall attended MAT Networks Conference discussing AI, ethos & culture. Meanwhile, CFOO Tamsin Owens was at the CST Finance & Ops Conference in Birmingham hearing useful sessions on the current funding landscape & how to use an apprentice levy wisely.
Congratulations to Sue Monger, Operations Manager for Mid-Essex, who has been shortlisted as 'Apprentice with the Biggest Impact' in the LMP Group Education Awards this week. Entries came from across the UK & the winner will be announced next week. Good luck Sue!
#educationawards #everyoneflourishes
Great to attend the Diocesan Annual School Leaders Conference today in Halstead to explore the topic of SEND through a Christian Lens. Heard some fascinating insights from Bishop Roger Morris-Chair of the Diocesan Board of Education, Carrie Prior-Director of Education. #education #churchschools
We are a looking for Governors' Clerks in Essex. To find out more contact khardy@lifeeducationtrust.com
#governorsclerk #clerkjobs #clerking #adminjobs #everyoneflourishes
At LIFE we're all about the people who make our organisation who we are. As part of our 'meet the team' series, we would like to introduce one of our fantastic Operations Managers...Lisa Davids - Operations Manager (Harwich) Find out all about Lisa here: lifeeducationtrust.com/our-team/
LIFE attended Bett Global 2026 on Friday. Met existing suppliers Bromcom IRIS Software Group & potential new ones. Great talk from Secure Schools in the innovation theatre on cybersecurity & the questions we need to be asking ourselves as a Trust.
#everyoneflourishes #BETTUK2026
Attended a truly inspiring Festival of Flourishing yesterday led by the National Society for Education. Great to hear from Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education. Extremely proud of pupils from Roxwell Primary who put on an amazing performance as part of the event.
Thrilled to share this beautiful video which was produced last week for one of our newest additions to the Trust, Dr Walker's Primary School in Fyfield, Essex.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSV...
Find out more about the school here: drwalkers.co.uk
#everyoneflourishes
Great to have our CEO Julian Dutnall attend the Zen Educate roundtable meeting last night with US Superintendents in advance of BETT 2026.
#networking #collaboration #everyoneflourishes #BETT #education #educationleadership
Session 3 of our 'Headship Excellence' programme took place last week, where we were once again joined by senior leaders from several Trusts across Herts & Essex. Thank you to our inspiring speakers, to Dr Walker's Primary School for hosting us, and to everyone who attended this valuable session.
It was great to welcome Dr Daniel Pampuch & Dr Darren Iselin from Christian Schools Australia to the Trust on Friday. CSA supports over 200 schools through advocacy, research, training & development.
#collaboration #education #churchschools #everyoneflourishes #MultiAcademyTrusts
We are incredibly proud of what the Trust achieved in 2025 & our Annual Report for the year has now been published which provides a round up of Trust-wide results & initiatives, as well as future plans. A copy can be found here: lifeeducationtrust.com/wp-content/u.... We hope you enjoy reading it.
We were delighted to welcome back Professor Alex Hill, author of Centennials, to our LIFE Executive Leadership Team meeting yesterday. Once again Alex shared some fascinating insights into what makes organisations successful. #everyoneflourishes #timetoshine #leadership #education #strategicplanning
The Trust has been focussing on developing our People. Following our recent Employee Survey, we are delighted to see the positive impact of this. We are in line with or above National Benchmarks in all areas of employee satisfaction & wellbeing. "It is a great place to work".
We are recruiting an Administrative Support Officer at Ford End Primary School in Essex. You will be working with friendly colleagues in a stimulating and welcoming learning environment.
Find out more and apply here: mynewterm.com/jobs/148210/...
#schooljobsessex #adminjobsessex
It's been a year since the start of our Million Pages initiative to help improve pupils’ literacy skills. It was a huge success with pupils & colleagues reading over THREE MILLION pages & is a great platform to launch the Trust into the government's National Year of Reading!
At LIFE we're all about the people who make our organisation who we are. As part of our ongoing 'meet the team' series, we would like to introduce you to...
Meet the Team: Vicky Smith - Operations Manager (Havering Secondary)
Find out all about Vicky here: lifeeducationtrust.com/our-team/
We are delighted to announce that LIFE Primary school Margaretting, are ranked NUMER ONE in Essex for Key Stage 2 results in Reading & Maths in latest government league tables. Well done to our Margaretting pupils and colleagues.
www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/schools-by-t...
At LIFE Education Trust we're all about the people who make our organisation who we are. As part of our ongoing 'meet the team' series, today we would like to introduce you to...
Carrie Massey - Operations Manager (Colchester)
Find out all about Carrie here: lifeeducationtrust.com/our-team/
The second session of our new 'Headship Excellence' programme took place yesterday. This time it was a virtual session, and it was fantastic to have 31 senior leaders join us from five different Trusts across Hertfordshire and Essex. Thank you to our inspiring speakers, can't wait for session 3!
At LIFE we're all about the people who make our organisation. As part of our ongoing 'meet the team' series, we would like to introduce our fantastic Operations Managers, starting with...Sue Monger - Operations Manager (Mid-Essex) Find out more about Sue: lifeeducationtrust.com/our-team/
In Jan, we launched our Trust initiative A MILLION PAGES which challenged everyone to collectively read 1 million pages by the end of 2025. We are delighted that we have now doubled that target, with our current total of 2,182,348 pages!
Find out more: lifeeducationtrust.com/a-million-pa...
Today was our inaugural Professional Development Community of Practice bringing together PD leaders from across the Trust. It was wonderful to collaborate on expertise, ideas & learning from across our schools & consider what excellence in PD looks & feels like. #everyoneflourishes #LIFElonglearning
One of our Trust-wide initiatives to help our pupils flourish, is the LIFE Ambassadors Programme which brings together representatives in Years 5 & 7 from 12 of our LIFE Education Trust (UK) schools. The 2026 Ambassador Programme launched this week with an event was held at Fordham Primary School.
It was a pleasure to be joined by Iona Jackson, MD of Edurio, at our Executive Leadership Team meeting yesterday. Iona shared some fascinating insights into better understanding feedback and how to assess the listening maturity of our organisation.
#educationleadership #everyoneflourishes