Futures Learning Trust
the first all primary shared trust
Three primary schools in Lancashire have recently opened as
The Futures Learning Trust. Haslingden Primary School, Peel Park
Primary School and St Leonard’s CE Primary School and their
partners share a key focus to raise standards by enhancing skills
in communication through ICT.
Trust partners include: Life Channel and Burnley Football Club
with Liverpool John Moores University joining the newly established
trust this month. Each school is unique with significant strengths
and qualities that the trust will build on with a desire to improve
aspirations to ensure each school reaches its true potential. Trust
schools is the opportunity to sustain existing and develop new
relations as well as bring a new perspective and dimension to what
the schools are trying to achieve and the chance to do things
differently.
Projects underway include:
- Innovative educational approach to outdoor learning: The Life
Channel is supporting all three schools in developing their outdoor
environment in a number of ways. One of these is for the children
to invest their pocket money to purchase and plant a tree in order
to offset their Carbon Footprint. This is a project introduced to
the schools by Life Channel involving one of its partners,
Toshiba.
- Futures Learning Trust Youth Parliament: Four members from each
school council have been voted onto the new Trust Parliament to
ensure the pupil voice, shape the activities, address issues
and recommend solutions.
- Partners benefit too and Burnley FC 1st Team physiotherapist is
lecturing to LJMU students with exciting plans to develop work on
Nutrition in support of pupils and partners.
“Never lose sight of why you are doing this, it will not be easy
- change never is. However, you are doing this to improve provision
for your children, their families, the staff and the community.
Education cannot stand still; we have to be looking for ways to
improve on what we do all the time.”
Julie Bradley, Headteacher, St Leonards VA CE Primary
School