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