A family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share good practice and learn from each other. MATA's Small MAT of the Year 2024.
1/12 As part of our Trust development, we have the following aims to achieve our Trust Dividend:
1. We grow our own future leaders at all levels; we have high quality CPD. We care about staff development, no matter the pay grade or position.
1/20
🧵about literacy
A key part of our Trust Dividend is for our approach to literacy to be outstanding to change students' lives and ensure access to education.
We have put lots in place and are starting to reap the benefits
@4StonesMAT
A stunning entry for the
@4StonesMAT
Photography Competition from Aleksandra
@TDMS_Evesham
. They say; 'The colour white relates to the purity as we have to show integrity to our loved ones. And the colour pink is the love we obtain and offer.'
#creativity
#photographychallenge
We are proud to announce that
@haybridgetsh
have been re-accredited, allowing us to continue to support the schools in
#Sandwell
and
#Dudley
. We are thrilled with this news, which allows us to continue to work and build on our relationships with these fantastic schools!
Huge congratulations to all at
@TDMS_Evesham
for being finalists in the Worcestershire Education Awards for Secondary School of the Year! An amazing achievement.
#welldone
#welldeserved
We are thrilled to announce that TDMS are finalists in the ‘Worcestershire Education Awards’ in the category of ‘Secondary School of the Year’!
#Worcestershire
#TDMScommunity
Today is National Employee Appreciation Day. We wanted to take a moment to thank our staff for all they do; from their dedication & hard work to their passion & positivity, they each play a part in bringing our values to life & shaping our success for the benefit of our students.
What a great topic and lovely to see so many students participating. Thank you Miss McSweeney for offering such an interesting club where students can expand their knowledge beyond the school day. Well done everyone
@TDMS_Evesham
#CharacterAcademy
#commitment
#lifebeyondschool
⭐️Exciting news⭐️
Three Year 7 students from
@KC1school
- Zoe, Kamile and Ava - who entered the Young Writer competition 'The Glitch' last term have received certificates of excellence and a letter to parents/carers requesting permission to publish their writing in a book! 👏🏻
Year 11 and Ivy were listening to Mr Parrott's during morning meeting this morning and celebrating the achievements of our brilliant Year 11s this half term.
Wishing all our Muslim students, friends and community, a peaceful and happy holy month of fasting. May you all have a great time with your family and friends, full of wonderful memories and festivity.
#RamadanMubarak
Congratulations to
@4stonesMAT
for winning 'Small Multi Academy Trust of the Year 2024' awarded by the Multi Academy Trust Association. Well done team!
We are thrilled with our Ofsted report as it shows how much we care for trainees and the quality of our curriculum. Thank you to all the schools who were visited and everyone who spoke to the inspectors.
1/🧵about Languages
A key part of our Trust Dividend is to have partnerships with outstanding provision.
Our brilliant Personal Development Programme Manager
@BatraMini
has developed lots of links this year to help bring the curriculum to life for our students.
This term, Year 6 are learning how to play the ukulele and they are making fantastic progress. Here they are being accompanied by Ed Sheeran playing Bad Habits!
New Writing Competition
This will be launched via the Head of Year bulletin next week, so this is your chance to get ahead!
Start planning your spooky story today 🎃🏰
Wishing our staff, students, parents/carers and school communities a wonderful Easter break. We hope you have a relaxing time with friends and family and look forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday 8th April.
#HappyEaster
#relax
#family
A great meeting with Alex
@TheKilnCo
learning about this great space in the heart of Worcester, and the amazing businesses accessing it. Looking forward to seeing how we can
#collaborate
for the benefit of young people here
@4StonesMAT
#CharacterAcademy
We have been so fortunate to welcome
@pedalsingh
to TDMS today to speak to students in Years 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and sixth form about the importance of remaining safe on and around railways. It was fascinating and so informative. Thank you for coming to visit us.
@networkrail
Yesterday, Aleksandra in Year 11 had the opportunity to visit the Mazak Company in Worcester and attend their 'Future Female Engineers Event'. She had the chance to look around the site and meet colleagues as well as finding out about engineering and apprenticeships.
Hendrix Year 7
@HaybridgeSchool
took this image during a visit to Dublin and entered it for our light photography competition. The image of
@customhouseopw
from across the water, not only showcases the beautiful lighting, but the reflection in the water too. Thanks Hendrix!
This morning, some of our fantastic dancers took part in a dance festival organised by
@SG_SouthWorc
. It's amazing to see the talent on show and the range of dances that they performed. Well done to all involved!
We have received some great feedback from the students about their encounter with the employers from the Living Languages Project - have a read about key messages the students learned.👇🧵
1/🧵about Languages
A key part of our Trust Dividend is to have partnerships with outstanding provision.
Our brilliant Personal Development Programme Manager
@BatraMini
has developed lots of links this year to help bring the curriculum to life for our students.
This fiery sunset with the silhouette from the trees makes for a stunning competition entry from Finn in Year 10
@TDMS_Evesham
. Finn's captured the sun in it's glory as it leaves us for the day.
Ms Smedley is talking to Year 9s and Year 10s about doing the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and all the benefits you get from getting involved in this brilliant opportunity. Come and find out more on Thursday 25 January at 5pm.
"Does it matter if some can’t read? It matters to the individuals, whose lives are enmeshed in a complicated web of compensating behaviours to disguise their problem."
Absolutely right! 👇🏻
Illiteracy costs the UK billions economically and socially, and far more in uncountable human misery. What price is too high to solve that? Our blog explains more: ‘Does it matter if some can’t read?’ (4 min read).
#EduTwitter
We
@4stonesMAT
would like to wish our students, staff, parents/carers, governors, trustees & community a very Merry Christmas and joyous New Year. Thank you for making this year a success with all your hard work and dedication. We look forward to our continued success in 2024.
Year 12 Criminology students spent this afternoon with 2 lecturers from Arden University learning about reasons for unreported crime and consequences of not recording crimes. There was also discussion about validity and reliability of methods of collecting statistics about crime.
***NEW BLOG***
Trust Spotlighting Activities
Thanks to
@simonsinek
,
@Andy__Buck
and
@teacherfeature2
for their inspiring reads along the way about leadership, change and culture.
A big well done to Jools in Y12 who has been selected for Gloucestershire U18s womens Rugby team. Jools is loving every minute of being involved in this squad especially when they beat Cornwall U18s at the weekend!
#commitment
#ERFC
#thisgirlcan
#womansrugby
#rfu
Mrs Batra, our Personal Development Programme Manager had a great time meeting all of the talented winners of the
@4StonesMAT
photography competition
@TDMS_Evesham
. The students were thrilled to have won the VIP invitation to James' Photography Masterclass!
#Representability
On Friday we had the honour of welcoming Mrs Batra into school to announce the winners of the Four Stones MAT photography competition. The photos were judged by professional photographer James Greenough and he was extremely impressed by the standard of all the entries.
Poetry competition success for Emily and Sophie in Year 12! Delighted to receive our copy of the 'This Is Me' anthology for our TDMS library featuring the two poems. Well done girls; we are so proud of your success!
#Ambition
Today is Day 6 of our Haybridge 'Wellbeing Advent Calendar' created and developed by our Sixth Form Student Leadership and Officer Team! Today's topic is 'Identifying'
#wearehaybridge
#wellbeingadventcalendar
Calling all current or aspiring Head of Years or Phases. The NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture is a fully-funded programme designed to further your knowledge and understanding of leading on whole-school behaviour!
Sign up below for a Feb ‘24 start:
The English department love creating writing Friday!
To be match fit for Monday's Paper 1 mock exam, Year 11 have been busy today producing wonderful writing and getting on the spot feedback.
Some great ideas on atmosphere and perspective!
Welcome back from half-term!
We're off the mark with our next SEND CPD, being facilitated by Pens Meadow School. As a SEND school, one area of focus will be strategies for pupils who are working below levels supported by phonics schemes
Sign up here 👇
The moon's reflection over the water on a dark night has been captured by Ishbel in Year 13
@KC1school
. An excellent example of light shining through the dark. Do you have an image you can enter? Are you a student/staff member at our schools? Send to competitions
@the4stones
.co.uk
What a fantastic experience for our winners, one we hope they will remember for a long time. We would like to sincerely thank
@jamesgreenoff
for giving up his time and supporting our 'Let there be Light' competition. Thank you also to
@TheKiln
and
@WorcCathedral
for having us!
We were lucky to be a part of the Study Tour
@RGSWorcester
and
@RGSTheGrange
today - it was fantastic to see technology built into the curriculum in a meaningful way. Thank you
@mrjones_EDU
,
@MattWarne
and to your staff and students for an inspirational day!
Today we hosted our 2nd Digital Learning Study Tour at
@RGSWorcester
&
@RGSTheGrange
🏫
We toured both schools to see how digital technology is integrated across the curriculum where it adds value & meaning to learning. ✅
Huge thanks to our amazing staff, pupils & guests! 🤩
🧵about period anxiety/poverty. At TDMS in Evesham
@4StonesMAT
as an SLT we met with HoYs in Autumn 1 focusing on attendance, behaviour & achievement. One HoY raised a link between female non-attendance & students being on their period.
The research backed up this theory⬇️
Thank you to all of the prospective Year 12 students and their families who visited us yesterday for our Sixth Form Open Evening!
Apply via the link below! We can’t wait to welcome you in September 2024!
#wearehaybridge
We are interested in finding out from prospective partners if they have a need we can meet, & if we have a shared vision. We don’t work with every school who enquires. It’s all about ‘fit’.
Read more about working with us (2 minute read).
#EduTwitter
We had so many wonderful entries for the Ivy drawing competition and this morning we had the pleasure of awarding Helen in Y9 first prize for her amazing drawing. Helen’s drawing will be displayed in the entrance hall for all our visitors to see.
Thank you to all of our Yr7 parents/carers who attended our Learning to Learn Workshop last night! Thank you also for such positive feedback about the session:
"Excellent presentation from an enthusiastic and knowledgeable teacher. Thank you."
"Very good and clear. Well done!"
During the masterclass
@jamesgreenoff
shared his photography skills, his best work, career journey and his plans for the future. Students
@HaybridgeSchool
and
@TDMS_Evesham
then had the chance to get to know each other over lunch and share their winning pictures
#Pizza
#NCW2024
⭐️WE ARE RECRUITING!⭐️
The Four Stones MAT is looking to recruit a Trust Finance Manager, to be based at King Charles I School.
Please visit the link for further information
Sol in Year 7
@HaybridgeSchool
created this beautiful effect using water and clingfilm to showcase
#Diwali
for the
@4StonesMAT
photography competition. If you're a student or member of staff in our trust, you can enter too, send your entry to competitions
@the4stones
.co.uk
Delighted to welcome alumnus Tom back to
#TDMS
to host a Sixth Form lecture. He spoke about his time at the University of Exeter & his current position at DePuy Synthes, Johnson & Johnson's orthopaedics company.
Although the light photography competition is now closed we still have some excellent entries to share from over the holiday period.
@KP4Stones
has brought some of that southern glam with this image from the
#Nashville
concert! The beam lighting and smoke on stage is so powerful.
Sixth Form enrichment afternoon continues today. Last week students in The Good Life with Mrs Clive produced some tasty and autumnal warming fruit crumbles & custard!
#Delicious
#Budgeting
#LifeSkills
Joseph in Year 6
@TDMS_Evesham
has entered this beautiful Christmassy image with tinsel, fairy lights and baubles all sparkling, ready for the big day! Enter your image today - competitions
@the4stones
.co.uk
#creativity
#Christmas2023