Our Trust Structure
Being part of our Trust provides every school with extensive support, coupled with opportunities for collaboration. Yet each Lionheart school embraces their own distinctive character and community context, ensuring autonomy for school leaders to serve their school community in the best way.
The forward-thinking approach of both the Trust and each school always places students at the heart of every decision and action.
School Leadership
Each Lionheart School is managed by an experienced team which comprises:
Executive Principal – who leads 2-3 school leaders, also linking with the Trust Executive Team
Associate Principal / Head of School – who is responsible for day-to-day leadership of a school, while linking with the Executive Principal on strategic decisions
Central Support Services
Schools are supported by expert academic and operational central service teams, enabling each school leader to focus on delivering an outstanding education to pupils. Central Services are:
- Academic Excellence, Curriculum and Subject Expertise
- Human Resources
- Finance, Enterprise and Lettings
- Estates and Catering
- Marketing and Communications
- IT and Digital
- Governance and Compliance
- Data and Exams
Governance
Our Board of Trustees work closely with Lionheart’s Executive team to provide strategic direction and ensure robust accountability for educational and financial performance. The Board have three core functions:
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and direction.
- Holding executive leaders to account for educational performance and effective management of staff.
- Overseeing financial performance, ensuring value for money.
The work of Trustees is scrutinised by Members, ensuring the Trust's core priorities remain at the centre of its work, and each school is held to account at a local level by its own Local Governing Body.
Opportunities For Young People
Lionheart Schools are part of an inter-Trust network that provides opportunities for pupils to meet young people from other Trust schools across the East Midlands, with events typically organised and led centrally. Opportunities include:
- MFL spelling bee competitions
- Lionheart Speaks – oracy training and speech giving event
- Lionheart Games – inter-Trust schools’ athletics competition
- LET’s Dance - inter-Trust schools’ dance competition
- Battle of the Bands
- Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and presentation event
- Pride Festival
When Apollo’s three schools joined the Trust, Lionheart provided a solution-focused approach and genuine desire to ensure we improved and progressed as a group of schools.
Julia Patrick, Executive Principal (& former CEO of Apollo Trust).