Northern Education Trust is a

multi-academy trust Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) or academy chain is an academy trust that operates more than one academy school. Academy schools are state-funded schools in England which are directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local aut ...

operating in the North of England, established in 2010. It operates both primary and secondary

academies An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

. The Northern Education Trust (NET) is a founder and member of the Northern Alliance of Trusts.

Academies

, there were a total of 29 academies run by the Northern Education Trust.

Secondary academies

* Buile Hill Academy *

The Blyth Academy The Blyth Academy is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Blyth, Northumberland Blyth () is a port town, port and seaside town as well as a civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the so ...

* Denton Community College *

Dyke House Academy Dyke House Academy (formerly Dyke House Secondary Modern School, Dyke House Comprehensive School and then Dyke House Sports and Technology College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. ...

Essa Academy Essa Academy (formerly Hayward Grammar School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in the Great Lever area of Bolton in the English county of Greater Manchester. Previously a community school administered by Bolton ...

Farringdon Community Academy Farringdon Community Academy is a co-educational secondary school with academy status, located in the suburb of Farringdon in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. The school was built along with the estate of Farringdon in 1956. The school ha ...

Freebrough Academy Freebrough Academy is a Mixed-sex education, coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Brotton, Cleveland, Yorkshire, Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. Previously known as Warsett School, it later was renamed Freebrough Speci ...

* The Grangefield Academy * Hetton Academy * Kearsley Academy * Kirk Balk Academy *

Manor Community Academy Manor Community Academy is a secondary school in the Owton Manor area of Hartlepool, County Durham. It is an academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. T ...

* North Shore Academy *

Red House Academy Red House Academy (RHA, formerly Hylton Red House School) is an 11–16 mixed secondary school with academy status in Hylton Red House, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly a community school and adopted its present name afte ...

Thornaby Academy Thornaby Academy (formerly Thornaby Community School) is a coeducational secondary school located in Thornaby-on-Tees in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. Background The school was previously known as Bassleton School b ...

Thorp Academy Thorp Academy is a large 11–18 secondary Academy (English school), Academy in Ryton, Tyne and Wear, Ryton, Tyne & Wear, England. The academy is named after the 19th century churchman and rector, Charles Thorp, who went on to found Durham Univ ...

* Walbottle Academy

Primary academies

*Abbey Park Academy *Badger Hill Academy *The Ferns Primary Academy *Frederick Nattrass Primary Academy *Hilton Primary Academy *Merlin Top Primary Academy *Mount Pellon Primary Academy *Norton Primary Academy *The Oak Tree Academy *Whitecliffe Academy

Northern Alliance of Trusts membership

In 2017 it was instrumental in setting up the Northern Alliance of Trusts. In 2019, the academies minister,

Lord Agnew Theodore Thomas More Agnew, Baron Agnew of Oulton, (born 17 January 1961) is a British businessman, Conservative life peer, and former Minister of State at the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. He is the founder and current chairman of the board ...

, announced a new growth fund to support smaller academy trusts to merge to create bigger trusts and share resources, in response criticisms of the efficiency academies. Northern Alliance of Trusts received a grant from the

Department for Education The Department for Education (DfE) is a Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for child protection, child services, education in England, educati ...

Strategic School Improvement Fund. This was funding aimed at in-need schools to improve school performance and pupil attainment, and favoured schemes in which schools helped each other. Funding opened in 2017 and gave grants for two years. The Northern Alliance is the first formal partnership of its kind between larger chains. Members share resources but continue to act as independent legal entities. The Alliance works on common procurement, leadership standards, fund raising, and strategies for the recruitment and retention of teachers. It has eight members:

References

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