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Academies Battle For the Cross Trust Spelling Bee Shield!
On Tuesday the schools across the Trust travelled through the bitter winter weather to Bolton for the 2nd Annual Great Schools Trust Spelling Bee. Players

Principal’s Blog: Principle 8: Sweep the shed
From the age of 16, through to my penultimate year of university, I worked at McDonalds, both in my home town of Bromley and York,

Principal’s Blog – Principle 6: All Leaders Empower Others
In one of the most iconic scenes in British television comedy, Trigger, the butt of so many ‘Only Fools and Horses’ jokes, proudly reveals that

Uniform Recycle Programme
As we approach the end of the year there are several updates I would like to bring to your attention. Firstly, at King’s we always

Principal’s Blog – Principle 5: Shoot for the stars
Our next principle applies to our expectations of ourselves as well as our students. In terms of the latter at King’s we want our staff

Principal’s Blog – Principle 4: Lifelong Apprenticeship
One of the wonderful things about working for the Great Schools Trust is that a number of teachers who I worked with in the first

Principal’s Blog – Principle 3: Narrate the Why
In the early stages of my career I was often asked by students, in numerous different situations, why do we have to do this? (usually

Principal’s Blog – Principle 2: See it, Own it, Do it
During my training year (2009/10 for the historian’s amongst you) I had an amazing mentor called Kevin. He was coming to the end of his