Welcome to Astrea Academy Trust
Our Journey and Vision
Since launching with just six schools in 2016, we’ve grown into a vibrant network of 26 academies across South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire. Our mission is to provide an exceptional, academically rich education that empowers every pupil to learn deeply, thrive personally, and lead fulfilling lives.
Ambition Without Limits
We firmly believe that a child’s background should never limit their potential. We set ambitious goals and pursue them with relentless determination, holding ourselves to the highest standards in everything we do. Our commitment is to recruit and nurture outstanding teachers, craft an exceptional curriculum, and develop expert leaders and support teams across all our functions.
Creating the Right Environment
We know that children, especially the most vulnerable, flourish in calm, focused learning environments. That’s why we foster a scholarly culture across all our schools, where every student is supported to succeed. This culture is built on our deep respect for expertise, with ongoing investment in excellence across teaching, curriculum design, business operations, and strategic leadership.
Our Vision and Values
All Astrea children will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. Working together, Astrea schools will tackle head on the barriers that stand in the way of children’s success. We will do this through a relentless commitment to a brilliant education, a focus on inclusion for all, and by delivering on our promise of broad opportunities and supporting and sustaining thriving communities.
Scholarship:
We are informed by the best of academic and organisational thinking and research, using this where we can and expanding it where possible.
Curiosity:
We ask searching questions, not taking things at face value, seeking out the best of what is known and engaging in appreciative enquiry.
Tenacity:
We deliver on our promises and see things through to completion. We embody pace, urgency and determination in our focus on improving outcomes for children and on our own performance.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to give all Astrea students an advantage throughout life, setting them up to be accomplished and competitive in all that they do. We have this ambition for all students, whilst recognising that the most disadvantaged amongst them will benefit most from our work.