Ascent Academies Trust

Congratulations to Carolyn Morgan on being awarded an OBE in the King’s NY Honours List 2026.
Carolyn, our former CEO, retired in December 2024, after giving many years of service to education, particularly specialist education. Carolyn was a founder of Ascent and became our first CEO.

It’s has been a regal week at The Ascent Academies' Trust with two separate visits to the palace. On Monday two colleagues joined Barbara Priestmans young people who achieved their DoE Gold awards and on Wednesday Adele Pearson-Atkinson attended the education and skills garden party.

VE Day 80th Anniversary celebrations and reflections. All schools across our Trust planned activities for our young people to take part in, from tea parties, war time meals, meeting veterans, visits, EHCP goal activities linked to VE Day and much more.
#wewillrememberthem

It was our pleasure this morning to host Chris McDonald our MP for Stockton North. He came to see and discuss our breakfast provision as part of the Early Adoptor Government scheme.
He saw the importance of a healthy breakfast giving a strong start to the school day for our pupils!

Lost learning crisis: 10 solutions to keep kids in class Schools with 'least representative' cohorts should be banned from growing, study says

@TheDifferenceEd has today launched a major report into the 'lost learning' crisis. Here are the 10 recommendations it says could help tackle it...

Today is National School Governors’ Awareness Day. The hard work, commitment & impact is immeasurable.
Lynn Watson OBE our wonderful Chair shares her reflection on the role.
#SchoolGovernorsAwareness
#EducationSupport
#VolunteerForEducation

Katie Stevens really champions the value of Governance in her roles as Chair of the Finance Assets and Resources (FAR) Committee, Vice chair and link Trustee fo Governance. Read Katie’s feedback on what she gets out of the role.

#SchoolGovernorsAwareness
#EducationSupport
#VolunteerForEducation

Katie Stevens really champions the value of Governance in her roles as Chair of the Finance Assets and Resources (FAR) Committee, Vice chair and link Trustee fo Governance. Read Katie’s feedback on what she gets out of the role.

#SchoolGovernorsAwareness
#EducationSupport
#VolunteerForEducation

Today is National School Governors’ Awareness Day. The hard work, commitment & impact is immeasurable.
Lynn Watson OBE our wonderful Chair shares her reflection on the role.
#SchoolGovernorsAwareness
#EducationSupport
#VolunteerForEducation

Exclusive: The boss of an academy trust that provides insurance cover for thousands of schools will now cover legal costs for staff who want to sue social media trolls.

Thank you to Jeremy Bird and Tom, Kirsty and Jack who have spent three days carrying out a Challenge Partners Quality Assurance Review at Portland Academy. Great professional dialogue and insights that validated and challenged the work of the school, its leaders and colleagues.