MLP Newsletter No. 33
I hope you have all had a good half term break and welcome back to Term 4, which will be another short but busy term, I’m sure.
Thank you to all of you who completed the parent survey over the last few weeks; questionnaires for staff,
parents and learners closed at half term and we are now in the midst of collating the results, the detail of
which will be communicated back to you by your child’s academy in the coming weeks, along with the
actions prioritised for continuing improvement. Our annual stakeholder surveys are an important way for the
Trust Board to hear the views of the people who form our partnership and we are all keen to use the
information well to make sure that we do an even better job of educating your sons and daughters.
One of the highlights of Term 3 was our Trust-wide Charity Day, which this year provided goods for the
Salisbury Foodbank. All ten academies in the Trust took part and children and young people brought in a
range of priority foods and other items to support the work of the charity. Below is an extract from Maria
Stevenson’s letter to the Trust; Maria is a governor and parent at Old Sarum Primary School and the Deputy Manager of the Salisbury Foodbank:
“The donations have been collected, weighted and now mostly sorted in our foodbank warehouse! I wantedto pass on my thanks for the MLP charity day initiative and support all the schools have given us.
Collectively, MLP donated 1175kg of food, which is about the weight of 100 Single Emergency food parcels or 900 meals. This food is already being picked and packed up ready for local people, our aim key aim goes back to the origins of The Trussell Trust when Paddy and Carol Henderson set up the foodbank network...
“No one should go hungry tonight”.
The Gold Star goes to Amesbury Archer Primary School for collecting the most food by weight: 221kg.
Special thanks to Old Sarum Primary School for collecting the most Angel delight! All the schools really got behind the challenge and it’s been a pleasure for me to take part, especially at Old Sarum where my daughter attends”.
Our thanks go to Maria and the team for helping us set up the day, for the assemblies she led in some of the academies and for her offer to provide a learning day at the Foodbank for the school council of Amesbury Archer Primary School. A huge thank you to all of you for what you contributed; we all know just how much difference this will make to families in need across the area.
Sarah Busby
Chief Executive Officer