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Athelstan Argus
Trust Staff Newsletter
Caring, collaborative and excellent
Message from the CEO, Tim Gilson
It is not easy to
c a p t u r e a l l t h e
c h a l l e n g e s a n d
achievements of our
schools over the
past year. While in
many ways this has
been an academic
year that none of us
ever expected or
would wish to repeat, as ever, when faced with
seemingly insurmountable issues all the staff
working across Athelstan Trust have risen to
the challenge and exceeded everyone’s
expectations of what was possible.
Our students are so fortunate to have such a
creative, optimistic and professional team of
staffing working together to support them and
provide the highest quality education.
The past year has shown how much power
and value there is in strong effective schools
collaborating and helping each other solve
problems and sharing ideas and resources. It
has been great seeing the development of
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networks and groups of
colleagues across all the schools in the Trust
getting together, supporting each other and
building our capacity to deal with challenges.
You have all demonstrated what a resilient
organisation we have become.
I would like to take the opportunity to point all
staff towards our Flexible Working website
https://theathelstantrust.org/fwas/ and to
remind all colleagues that we welcome
conversations about flexible working and will
try to find a way to accommodate requests
where possible.
Having had the privilege of speaking to groups
of our students in all our schools I want you to
know that they really do know how lucky they
are and that they feel supported and valued.
Like all schools we have been talking to
students about how safe they feel from sexual
harassment and senior staff and governors
have carried out a review of this area. There
will be further staff training next year and
schools are re-examining their sex
relationships and health education
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