We know we will be successful if students love coming to school, staff love coming to work and our communities love our schools. 

Each year, we gather valuable insights from our nationally benchmarked parent, student and staff surveys, ensuring that every voice is heard. They are really useful in helping us to continue to improve the experience of students and families across our schools. 

Each of our schools will share the key headlines both in terms of celebrations and areas for improvement with their community once the results have been analysed and schools have had an opportunity to develop action plans with their Director of Education and their Chair of Governors. This will usually be the half-term after the survey has been completed. 

As a Trust, our Executive Leaders consider key themes across our schools and we have introduced Trust wide changes as a result. For example, all our schools have a strengthening communities strategy and are supported by national partners to enhance their work, including Reach Foundation, as a direct results of feedback.  

In 2025-26, several of our schools received national and regional awards from Edurio (our listening platform provider) based on their school performance and feedback directly from students, parents and staff. You can read more about the awards here. 

Alongside this yearly listening survey, there are plenty of informal opportunities for listening across the Trust throughout each academic year, from our Executive teams regular visits to our schools to our new Trust Student Parliament which is launching in 2026/27.

As a family of schools, we are passionate about working in partnership with our local communities. There are many ways to get involved and make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people. 

One of the most important ways to support our schools is by becoming a governor. Each of our schools has a Local Governing Board made up of parents, staff and members of the local community who work together to support, challenge and champion their school. Governors play a vital role in ensuring schools continue to provide the best possible education and opportunities for students. 

If you are interested in becoming a governor, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at [email protected]. You can also view our current governor vacancies here. 

Governors regularly visit their schools, helping them to develop a deeper understanding of their school and provide informed support and challenge. They attend a minimum of three formal Local Governing Board meetings on site each year, alongside our annual Governance Conference held during the summer term.  

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. Whether you have professional expertise, community knowledge or simply a desire to make a difference, your contribution could be invaluable. 

If you are a local organisation interested in working with our Trust or one of our schools, we would be delighted to explore opportunities to collaborate. Please contact us at [email protected]. 

Collaboration is one of our three values within the Ted Wragg Trust and there are often many informal opportunities for children from across our schools to meet and collaborate with other students.  

We are also increasingly creating opportunities for this to happen more frequently: 

• Student leadership and student voice: Alongside school-based opportunities, we offer extra student leadership and voice opportunities to help our young people grow their experience and confidence. From our Sixth Form students mentoring younger students to our Trust Student Parliament, which is launching in 2026/27, these students also offer valuable contributions to enrich and strengthen our school communities. 

• Innovation Competition: This year marked the 3rd year we brought students from across our schools together to take part in our Trust wide Innovation Competition. Students from Y3 to Y11 work together to develop project ideas to tackle some of societies biggest issues and pitch their big idea to a panel of experts. This is a wonderful event that brings together all of our schools and builds key skills for our students around teamwork, public speaking and turning their ideas into real world solutions. 

• Ted Wragg Awards: Each year we hold our Ted Wragg Awards evening to celebrate the extraordinary efforts and achievements of students, staff, volunteers and governors from across our schools and shared services teams. You can read more about it here. We were delighted to be able to welcome so many students, families, staff members and volunteers to join our celebrations. 

• Moving Image Competition: The Moving Image Competition, now in its second year, offers students from across our family of schools a chance to grow their skills and experience in creating short films. Students submit their short films with a chance of winning across 15 categories, from best editing to best performance. Hosted in the 360° Dome Cinema, the event brings together students, families, staff and industry professionals to celebrate the creativity and storytelling of young filmmakers. 

• Ted Wragg Choir: In 2022 we launched our inaugural Ted Wragg Choir bringing together student and staff representatives from across the majority of our schools. We are looking forward to continuing to grow this in the coming years and find increasing opportunities for them to perform together. For more information, or to get involved contact [email protected] 

• Primary Competitions: Throughout the academic year, we run various competitions across our primary schools. These have included a Christmas Poetry Competition and Easter Story Competition open to all children to enter and a Maths Challenge for teams of Year 4 children. Our primary teachers regularly meet to share their curriculum ideas for the term and arrange opportunities for children in their classes to meet virtually with those in other schools to share learning. 

• Sports Events: Our schools take part in a number of intermural sports events with other children across our trusts and with other schools locally. These include a wide range of sports from cross country and multi skills to tag rugby, along with competitive league football and netball opportunities.  

Being part of the Trust helps schools to achieve more together than they could alone. Through collaboration, shared expertise and specialist support, our schools benefit from the strength of a wider network while maintaining their unique identity and serving their local communities. 

Here are some of the many ways schools benefit from being a part of our Trust: 

• Leadership development and professional networks through our Ted Wragg Institute, alongside access to both national and international partnerships, enable colleagues to learn from best practice and develop their expertise at every stage of their career. We offer a wide range of collaborative networks, professional learning programmes and training opportunities for teachers, co-professionals and leaders, creating opportunities to share expertise, learn from one another and drive continuous improvement across our family of schools. 

• Our professional development offer includes fortnightly instructional coaching for every teacher through Steplab. This personalised coaching model supports continuous improvement in classroom practice and helps teachers refine their craft throughout their careers. 

• Our school improvement support draws on expertise from across our Trust to strengthen teaching and learning, share effective practice and improve outcomes for all pupils. 

• Specialist support in areas such as safeguarding, speech and language and SEND provide schools with direct access to experienced professionals who offer guidance, training and strategic support to help meet the needs of every child. 

• A strong sense of partnership ensures school leaders and staff never feel isolated when facing challenges, making important decisions or responding to change. And being a Trust firmly rooted in Devon means we can get to our schools quickly to provide support when needed. You can see some testimonials from our team here.

• Expert support across key operational areas, including estates strategy, human resources, employment law, finance, procurement, compliance and cyber security. By providing access to specialist expertise and shared services, we reduce administrative burden and help school leaders focus their time and energy where it matters most: delivering excellent education and supporting children, staff and families within their school communities. 

• Financial efficiencies and economies of scale, with collective procurement and shared services delivering better value for money and enabling resources to be directed where they will have the greatest impact. As a Trust, we also generate significant additional income through our school improvement work with schools beyond our Trust, alongside the contribution of our wholly owned subsidiary, Fusion School Services. Operating to support our charitable mission, Fusion reinvests its surpluses back into our schools. This helps to generate hundreds of thousands of pounds each year that are invested in opportunities for pupils and support for our schools. 

• Significant capital investment including through School Condition Allocation (SCA) funding, enabling the Trust to take a strategic, long-term approach to maintaining and improving school buildings. This year (2025/26) an additional circa £3 million has been provided by the Schools Condition Allocation fund. Through their five-year investment plan each of our school’s benefit from investment in estates and infrastructure projects that support safe, high-quality learning environments without needing to rely solely on individual funding bids. 

Ultimately, being part of the Trust means schools have access to the people, expertise, resources and support needed to help every child, every colleague and every school thrive. 

You told us that consistency matters. Through our student, staff and parent surveys, we regularly hear that children and young people benefit most when they are taught by familiar adults who know them well. 

That's why, during 2025/26, our schools worked hard to reduce their use of external supply teachers. As a result, we achieved a 52% reduction in supply spend across our schools, helping to ensure greater consistency for our young people while also making the best use of public funds. 

We're particularly proud that five of our schools did not use any supply teachers during the entire academic year. This achievement reflects the commitment of our school leaders and staff teams, who have worked collaboratively to maintain high-quality teaching and learning while building a stable and sustainable workforce. 

This work goes hand in hand with our wider focus on workforce wellbeing and retention. Across our family of schools our staff are increasingly happy with our most recent staff survey showing that 80% of colleagues love coming to work, up 5% from the previous survey. As staff increasing love coming to work and absence levels have reduced, schools have been able to provide greater consistency for students, maintain stable staffing teams and reduce the need for short-term cover arrangements. 

We are proud to support both aspiring teachers and existing education professionals to gain qualifications and develop rewarding careers in education. 

Through the Ted Wragg Teacher Training Partnership (TWTTP), in partnership with the University of Exeter, we help train the next generation of teachers. This partnership enables us to develop our own talent pipeline, nurturing future educators and creating high-quality routes into the profession that benefit both our schools and the communities we serve. We continue to train on average 100 new teachers each year, making us one of the biggest providers in the South West. 

We are also committed to supporting colleagues who are already working in education. Through our partnership with the Centre for Children's Workforce (CCW) and the Reach Foundation, staff can continue in their current roles while studying towards a Foundation Degree. This flexible pathway allows professionals to gain recognised qualifications, enhance their skills and knowledge, and progress their careers without leaving the workplace. 

These programmes are part of our wider commitment to investing in people at every stage of their journey, helping to build a highly skilled, sustainable workforce that can make a lasting difference to children and young people. 

Find out more about our training opportunities here.

Wherever possible as a Trust we look to reduce the administrative burden on schools so that they can spend their time teaching and supporting the young people in their schools. This means that wherever possible we try and support schools by creating best practice policies we can all use. However, we believe strongly in the importance of local leadership, particularly given the different contexts and communities of our schools. 

The Trust has identified 13 key policies that are all adapted and tailored by school leaders to their local context and therefore approved locally, either by the Headteacher or Local Governing Board. These policies are those most closely linked to the day-to-day operation of individual schools and may vary to reflect the needs of different communities and settings. They include behaviour policies, safeguarding and child protection policies and admissions for example. 

Annually you can view our performance data as a Trust via the DfE website here. This is routinely published in February each year. 

We conduct student, parent and staff surveys annually across all of our schools. Thank you so much to everyone who takes the time to fill these in. They are really useful to us in helping us to continue to improve the experience of students and families across our schools. Each of our schools will share the key headlines both in terms of celebrations and areas for improvement with their community once the results have been analysed and schools have had an opportunity to develop action plans with their Director of Education and their Chair of Governors. This will usually be the half-term after the survey has been completed. 

A summary of this data is now published every year as part of our Annual Report and you can find the latest Annual Report here. 

Lesson removal is used as a last resort to ensure students can learn in a calm environment where students feel safe and secure. We want to be as transparent as we can about the use of lesson removal across our family of schools and continue to explore what we can do in our schools to reduce the need for lesson removal.

Our Lesson Removal average across the Trust in 2025/26 to date is 0.78%, a reduction on previous years. This means that on average across schools this year so far, children are in lessons 99.22% of the available time.

You can read more about how we are reducing lesson removal here.

And from December 2026 we will publish data annually for the previous academic year showing permanent exclusion, suspension and lesson removal data across all our schools.