In 2017 a group of Nottingham schools joined forces to establish the Nottingham Schools Trust (NST) – a collaborative partnership focusing on improving education for the children of Nottingham. This child and school centred initiative was led by serving Headteachers within Nottingham at the time: Pat and Sarah Fielding.
The trust is a company limited by guarantee run by a Board of Directors and an appointed Managing Director (MD). Every school that belongs to the trust will contribute to and benefit from a unique school improvement offer. The trust offers a unique opportunity to bring together all types of schools including maintained primary, special schools and standalone academies.
Our priority is to provide sustainable school to school support to all of the member schools within the trust and we take full advantage of the breadth and expertise that already exist in our member schools.
Our guiding principles are to challenge, support and improve our member schools and academies to ensure that all our children succeed. Over time we also intend to establish a system that delivers efficiency, effectiveness and growing economies of scale so that maximum resource is reinvested directly into classroom practice.
Every school, as a member, has a voice in the decision-making process, through the Trust’s open and transparent governance. The Trust values the diversity and unique community which exist in our schools and actively encourages schools who belong to the Trust to maintain and further develop its own distinctive culture and identity.
Nicky Bridges
Managing Director
