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MET 2017

AGM Tuesday 6 March 2018

www.tmet.org.uk

Our vision for MET

is to grow a family of schools and colleges which are individual in character but united by a passion that…

MET Values

Our family of schools will be bound by a shared set of values:

• We value world class outcomes in progress, attainment and

development for all

• We are a community of responsible, caring individuals who

values the promotion and creation of a collaborative culture underpinned by positive human relationships

• We value the opportunity for all to engage in lifelong learning

with creative freedom, enabling them to continue, develop and progress

• Wholly inclusive, we celebrate diversity and understand

individual needs; we will cultivate a global outlook & prepare all to be international citizens

Our schools

Highlights for 2017

• Witchford Village College formally joins the Trust (April 2017)
• DfE approves The Cavendish School (April 2017)
• Impington Sports Centre Ltd becomes MET-Living Ltd (July

2017)

• Impington Village College secures GCSE outcomes which

place the college once again in the top 10% of schools in England

• Excellence work undertaken by the Trust team to develop the

work of the Trust (Fran Difranco, Amanda Hartwright and Alasdair Perrin)

Impington Village College

• Outcomes in 2017 placed the College in the top 5% of

schools nationally (KS4 progress)

• The college’s self-evaluation is that it is now

‘Outstanding’

• Strongly positive external review by Phil Garnham (LA

Adviser)

• 264 First Preferences for September 2018 (against

PAN of 240)

• Post-16 continues to develop (IB and BTECs), plus

scholarship programmes (football)

• Developing very strong programme of staff well-being

Witchford Village College

• Outcomes dropped in 2017 with P8 significantly below

average

• Attendance, an Ofsted key issue, dropped in 2016-17

to below 94%

• The Principal and Vice-Principal left at short notice

before Christmas

• Action plan in place to improve behaviour, teaching &

learning and put in place new curriculum and pastoral structure for September 2018

• Interim arrangements for 2018 with a new Principal

(Dan Baxby) for June

MET-Living (MET-L)

• ISC Ltd became MET-L Ltd in July 2017,

amalgamating Impington & Witchford Sports

• We now have staff working across both sites
• Will eventually comprise all ‘non-school’

activities across the two sites (and beyond when others join)

• FDF is currently overseeing the development
• f MET-L in his new role of Chief Operating

Officer (COO)

The Cavendish School

• Formal approval from DfE granted April 2017
• A Steering Group (led by DJ) is overseeing ‘pre-
• pening’ and has a project plan to ensure successful
• pening
• Surveys and pre-build briefs have been drawn up
• We now plan to have 80 on roll starting from Year 3
• Building work should commence later this year and

we still hope to open in September 2019 but…

MET – The Future

• Growing into primary to encompass all phases and settings;

we are engaging closely with four local primary schools

• Approached by St Ivo as one of a number of prospective MATs
• Developing the work of the Morris Teaching School Alliance

(initial teacher training, professional development and school- to-school support)

• Working to create stronger Trust-wide activities, building on

the successes we have had with IT (and to include Finance, Site and eventually HR)

• And the challenge remains of reducing expenditure and

securing increased funding/income

Governance

Trust Board & LGBs

• MET board now fully recruited
• IVC LGB - fully recruited & running well
• WVC LGB - transitioning from SLT-led to

governor led

• TCS LGB – chair designate recruited

Trustees

• June 2017 – 2 new trustees:

– Joanne Garner, Worldwide FC Biovia (a Dassault subsidiary) – Keith Thompson, former Group HR Director Ultra Electronics

• December 2017 – Kate Brierton steps down

– Many thanks for a critical contribution to establishing the MAT

• February 2018 – new trustee:

– Victoria Stubbs, Chief Risk Officer, CBS

Any questions?