Future plans for Stour Valley Educational Trust
Following a thorough and extensive investigation, we have been exploring the possibility of joining a like-minded, values driven multi academy trust. We are pleased to announce that our board of trustees has identified Anglian Learning as the multi academy trust we wish to join. It is important to us that Stour Valley Community School and Clare Community Primary School are in a trust that has the right foundations, values, culture, structures, systems and resources moving forward.
The trust boards of both organisations need to agree to the transfer and this will be dependent on a period of due diligence and engagement with stakeholders, including our staff, parents and our wider community which is now taking place. If both trust boards agree to proceed, the Department for Education Advisory Board will make the final decision about the transfer of SVET into Anglian Learning. This decision is currently expected to be by the end of the Summer term. More detailed legal and human resources work would follow with a transfer expected in early 2025.
Rachel Kelly, SVET’s CEO said: “We think that Anglian Learning will be a good fit with the community culture and ethos of our two schools in SVET. Both our schools are in a strong position and we will be entering into this process with plenty to offer as well as looking to benefit from being a part of a larger, collaborative group of schools. The resources we will access will mean we can be proactive in addressing school improvement needs and enhancing the school experience of students and staff. Exciting times ahead.”
Jonathan Culpin, Anglian Learning’s CEO, said: "We are delighted to be working with SVET who share our core vision and values, a commitment to a broad and balanced curriculum providing the best possible educational opportunities for young people and development opportunities for staff. This is potentially an exciting period of growth for Anglian Learning."
Welcome to Clare Community Primary School
I am delighted to introduce you to our welcoming and aspirational school, part of the Stour Valley Educational Trust. At Clare Community Primary School our sincere wish is that we can work in partnership to give your child the best possible education and start in life. We want to encourage and inspire creativity and give as good a foundation as we can in those vital basic skills such as reading and number; but also help our pupils to develop as caring and thoughtful people, able to work and play sensitively with others.
We are very fortunate to be housed in a modern and well-equipped facility, which was extended and completely refurbished in 2010; and benefits from spacious, carefully designed and laid-out classrooms, and a large school hall. Outside we have a generous school field, school pond and a wooded area, as well as two playgrounds with play equipment and a trim trail. We are situated within a quiet and secluded corner of the 17th century market town of Clare, backing onto ancient common lands.
At Clare Community Primary we aim to give each individual the opportunity to grow and learn in a caring and well-disciplined environment, teaching them how to attain the best from their ability, to develop high self-esteem, to respect others and to enjoy the world, embodying our core values of Community, Learning, Aspiration, Respect and Enthusiasm.
We want your child to be excited to come to school in the mornings, and I hope that we can work together to achieve this. We welcome visits, so please take the opportunity to come and see our setting, have a tour around the school and meet some of our staff and pupils.