St Robert’s Primary School has today become the third school in the Harrogate district to join a catholic academy trust based in Leeds.
The primary school, on Ainsty Road in Harrogate, is now part of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust.
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Harrogate and St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Knaresborough already belong to the trust, which now has 11 schools in north and west Yorkshire.
St Robert’s has 276 pupils, aged 5-11. Although many are catholic, it admits children of all faiths.
Headteacher Jill Collins said:
“The support and care we have been given over the last year shows how the trust will enable St Robert’s to continue providing an outstanding Catholic education to our children.”
The school was rated ‘outstanding’ in its latest Ofsted inspection. Chair of governors, Dr Matt Blackamore said:
“We are so pleased to be joining our fellow Catholic schools in the Bishop Wheeler Trust and we are looking forward to working closely with them to continue providing great education together.”
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Darren Beardsley, interim chief executive of the trust, said bringing another school into the trust helped to fulfil the vision of the Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend Marcus Stock, of a family of schools working together to share resources and raise education standards.
The trust is named after Bishop William Gordon Wheeler, who was Bishop of Leeds from 1966 to 1985.
It is one of five multi-academy trusts in the Diocese of Leeds. It plans to expand in the next few years to include 18 Catholic schools in the area.
