Heart Education Trust

A Multi Academy Trust established in 2013 for schools in Norwich and Norfolk.

Kickstart at the HEART Education Trust 2021

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We are pleased to welcome our first cohort of our Kickstart Participants joined the HEART Education Trust on 8 th March 2021. The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new job placements for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
These placements will last for six months and over this time the participants will gain work experience, develop employability skills and undertake further training and qualifications.

We are offering placements in a range of areas including:
 Graduate Teaching Interns
 Early Years Teaching Assistants
 SEND Teaching Assistants
 Learning Support Assistants
 Office Administration Trainees

We currently have 24 Kickstart participants on placements across the HEART Education Trust and will have a further 6 join during the Summer Term. Each participant has been allocated a mentor in school and will become part of the school staff for the duration of their placement to give
them high quality work experience.

Utilising the grant we receive for each participant we have devised a programme of experience, study and qualifications for these Kickstart participants which is of very high quality. We feel that young people have had a particularly tough time with the COVID-19 pandemic and that this is a
way we can give something back and improve their life chances. The HEART Education is committed to raising the aspiration of young people and enabling them to develop and grow. We felt that the Kickstart scheme fulfils our ethos and vision. We have worked in conjunction with Norfolk County Council and external providers Vision Education and First Aid at Work Norfolk to be able to offer the participants a range of nationally recognised qualifications including:
 Level 2 Supporting Teaching and Learning
 Level 3 Teaching and Leading Primary PE
 Level 3 Foundation Level School Business Administration
 Paediatric First Aid Training

Alongside these qualifications the participants will also be accessing nationally recognised CPD certificated training in a range of areas specific to their placements and interests. As part of their placement each participant will be creating a portfolio to take to prospective employers
evidencing their training, qualifications and experience.


The placements commenced with an intensive week of training which we delivered at Carrow Road. Norwich City Football Club were keen to work in partnership with us and provided the training facilities at a reduced rate. We felt that it was important to provide professional facilities and training and an external speaker commented on how professional our training programme, presentations and delivery were.


Over the course of the week we delivered training in a range of areas to ensure that the Kickstart Participants were school ready. This included training in a number of areas which underpin the roles that are participants will carry out in our schools:
 Introduction to the HEART Education Trust – vision and values
 Safeguarding Training
 Online Safety
 Prevent
 Code of Conduct and Expectations of staff
 Behaviour Policy
 Managing Challenging Behaviour
 Maths
 Phonics and Reading
 EYFS
 Supporting SEND
 Supporting Teaching and Learning

During the school Easter holiday our participants have been busy with their two day paediatric first aid training. They have also spent 4 days learning new PE skills which they are keen to implement in their classrooms during the Summer Term. This training will continue with regular take on sessions over the next six months to extend and deepen the participants knowledge.

The participants have all started in their placements schools and we have been very pleased by the standard of the participants and their levels of commitment and enthusiasm displayed so far.

We hope to recruit a second cohort of Kickstart participants to complete a six month placement starting in September 2021. If you are interested please contact Sarah Porter on kickstart@thehearteducationtrust.co.uk for further information.

COVID-19 Update

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“Following a thorough risk assessment and an analysis of staff available to work, The HEART Education Trust have made provision for keyworker and vulnerable children  at Henderson Green, Lingwood and Valley Primary academies to attend childcare facilities at Heartsease Primary Academy.  Transport has been provided for these pupils.  We have made alternative arrangements for the 3 families who requested keyworker childcare support during the Easter holiday.

We would like to thank Kier who have supported us to keep Heartsease open and to Norse Catering Services who have provided lunches for children attending Heartsease and for those families who requested a packed lunch under the Free School Meals Provision.

We would also like to thank our staff who have put themselves on the frontline in helping to keep our schools open and all of the staff who have prepared and photocopied packs of work for pupils and maintained a Distance Learning Service daily on line to ensure that our pupils have been able to keep up a good standard of learning.

We would also like to extend our thanks to all of our parents who have supported their children to complete work both on line and in paper forms.

Chloe Smith Congratulates Top Performing School

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Author: Cameron Bradbury, Updated: 31 January 2020 14:55

Six primary schools in Norwich North have showed an increase in the proportion of pupils achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, visited the top performing school of the six.  

The 2019 Key Stage 2 results, which were published on the 13th December, showed that the national average had increased to 65% this year. These results are the fourth of their kind since the Department for Education introduced more rigorous assessments to align with the new national curriculum in 2016.

This has brought England’s primary education in line with the best in the world. Each year, more children are meeting the high expectations it sets.

The six primary schools showing a performance increase in Key Stage 2 results were the following:

Heartsease Primary Academy (2018: 41% 2019: 57%)

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Catton Grove Primary School (2018: 49% 2019: 63%

St William’s Primary School (2018: 55% 2019: 62%)

Firside Junior School (2018: 68% 2019: 75%)

Sprowston Junior School (2018: 60% 2019: 61%)

George White Junior School (2018: 66% 2019: 67%)

Chloe Smith paid a visit to Heartsease Primary Academy and met with Christina Kenna who is the CEO and Accounting Officer of the HEART Education Trust. Chloe congratulated Ms Kenna on Heartsease’s huge increase in Key Stage 2 performance data and thanked her for all the work her staff, parents and herself had put into the school.                                                                                                                                                 

Chloe Smith said “I am so proud to see this increase in results from primary schools in my constituency. It goes to show the sheer dedication parents and staff put in, to make children’s learning experiences, educational knowledge and school life as fruitful as possible”.   Christina Kenna commented “It is great to see these kinds of improvements in Key Stage 2 data. We have worked hard at Heartsease to improve on the results of 2018, and clearly these results show what we have been doing with the children is working”.