Abingdon Learning Trust
Quality – Opportunity – Collaboration – Ambition – Community
Fitzharrys School is proud to be part of the Abingdon Learning Trust, whose schools are rooted in local communities. Our vision is a bold one:
To nurture curiosity and fuel a passion for learning – shaping confident individuals and resilient communities, stronger together and ambitious for the future.
At Abingdon Learning Trust, we aim for everything we do to be grounded in our core values: Quality – Opportunity – Collaboration – Ambition – Community. Whilst our core purpose is the same in all our schools, we acknowledge and celebrate the differences and uniqueness in each school’s community.
We are ambitious for every child and put inclusion at the heart of our practice. We believe that collaborating with and learning from others is crucial to the success of our schools, and that having both primary and secondary schools within the Trust is an enormous asset, as it enables us to share our expertise and knowledge, learning from each other to improve the education of children from 3 to 18. Finally, we operate on the basis of trust and respect, between all members of our Trust community.
The strength of partnership and teamworking is core to the way we aim to work. It is vital to all of us in Abingdon Learning Trust that our schools are all schools that we would be delighted for our own children to attend. At the heart of that, we put our staff first, as this means that we are putting children and young people first. Having great teachers in front of every class, led by great leaders, and supported by great support staff, is critical to achieving the best outcomes for every child.
As Director of Education at Abingdon Learning Trust, I am privileged to see first-hand the quality work that Fitzharrys School provides day in and day out for its young people. It is a school that is committed to providing the very best opportunities - the chance to experience new things - in sport, music, science, languages, computing, and the arts; through trips and visits delivered by authors, engineers, university lecturers, employers, actors, musicians, politicians – authentic learning experiences.
As a result of this broad, balanced, rich curriculum offer, Fitzharrys School prepares its young people exceptionally well for their next steps in life’s journey. Fitzharrys' values of aspiration, opportunity and integrity are central to its work and the young people leave school well prepared to take their place in society as active, caring, compassionate and understanding citizens in the 21st century.
Julie Tridgell
Director of Secondary Education
Abingdon Learning Trust
To find out more, visit the Abingdon Learning Trust website.
