Primary trust schools
Moving towards trust status may offer different concerns for
primary schools: capacity to take on initiatives, less experience
of managing finance, challenge of gaining support, etc.
However, gaining trust status brings many benefits
Benefits:
- Legal partnership, long term sustainability
- Develops creativity and renews inspiration
- Own land and assets
- Close relationship with colleagues, regular meetings with a
shared agenda making school improvements seamless
- Being a charity allows application for grants and use of Gift
Aid as a fundraiser
- Ability to widen scope of the school through collaboration, use
of expertise, shared accountability and leadership
- Masters of your own destiny