Join Ebor

Where to next for your school? Considering joining Ebor?

“How can my school best collaborate with others in a strong and resilient structure to ensure that each child is a powerful learner and that adults have the opportunities to learn and develop as teachers and leaders?”

If this is the sort of question governors at your local authority maintained school are asking, perhaps the time is right to consider joining a multi-academy trust (MAT) and becoming part of a supportive family of schools.

Ebor is a primary focussed MAT with no lead school. It is one of our founding principles that we are open to all community, voluntary aided and voluntary controlled schools and are pleased to accept Church of England schools into our trust.

We, of course,  put the best interests of our children at the centre of everything we  do, but ways in which Ebor differs is:

• Comprehensive career opportunities for staff – in a large group of schools such as ours, we can retain and reward talented staff by offering opportunities at other schools, raising standards for everyone.
• Excellent in-house CPD, including offering highest Ofsted rated apprenticeships and a key partnership with our regional training school.
• Enriched curriculum opportunities for our children, allowing smaller schools access to specialist teaching.
• Thorough knowledge of SEND through our special primary school.
• Safeguarding and wellbeing experts – in the pandemic, our work for vulnerable children was highlighted in Parliament as an example of best practice.
• Trust-wide procurement for key products and services, delivering value for money savings that are reinvested in front line teaching and learning.
• Last, but certainly not least, is that Ebor schools are very much at the heart of our communities and we actively encourage and celebrate community involvement. Our staff, school and executive leaders are also parents and carers too, which gives us a real, ingrained understanding of our area, its issues and its people.

Who we are and what we stand for – in the words of our headteachers and governors:

• This is a Trust that invests in its people and develops talent, it grows leaders.
• It has quality specialists who are current practitioners and practice is shared across the Trust. There are opportunities for all, we feel valued.
• Ebor is about forward thinking, innovative, creative solutions, about collaborative partnerships and shared responsibility.
• We’re not competitors – we are a support network, a genuine family of schools that want to help each other. 
• The Trust values the diversity of its schools, and celebrates their uniqueness. Wider links are part of Ebor’s cultural capital.
• Ebor has high aspirations for its pupils, it has morals and a heart. It is driven by education and not business or profit.

If you would like a no-obligation meeting to find out more, email admin@ebor.academy and we’ll be pleased to talk to you.

Or, download our leaflet here.