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St Crispin’s School is part of The Circle Trust. The Circle Trust is an educational charity which exists to do one thing and that is to promote education for the common good.
By being part of The Circle Trust our school benefits in many ways. We learn from one another, share the workload and enjoy the economies of scale of many schools working together. Put simply we can do much more than by working alone.
Our “family circle” includes schools in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire, all geographically clustered within a half an hour journey to the Trust’s main offices where we gather for meetings and training. You can learn more about our Trust and the schools that are a part at www.thecircletrust.co.uk
The Trust Board is legally accountable for our Trust and all its schools.
The Board sets the Trust’s strategic aims and priorities and ensures these are met efficiently and effectively in line with its vision and values. It delegates responsibility for all day-to-day operations (including safeguarding, educational outcomes and resource management) across the Trust to the Chief Executive Officer and in individual schools to the Headteacher, as detailed in our Scheme of Delegation.
In order to engage more widely with stakeholders, leverage the professional expertise of the Trust executive team and eliminate duplication and in turn reduce workload, the Board has opted not to delegate governance to a local tier.
There are now two reserved positions on the Board for parent Trustees and the Resolution Circle for pupil suspensions and exclusions, complaints and certain personnel processes.
Channels are under construction for direct, two-way communication with key stakeholder groups (staff, pupils, parents and carers and local communities and civic actors) at school level via Headteacher Roundtables and across the Trust via our Stakeholder Circles. These will provide opportunity not only to hear stakeholder voice to inform strategy and decision making but also to build a relational approach to communicate the work of our Trust and its schools.
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Should you have any question, query or even concern about this school or any policy of the Trust you can use this email address (governance@thecircletrust.co.uk) and the Trust’s Governance Professional team will respond to you directly.