A warm welcome to The Loriners Multi Academy Trust

We are delighted to welcome you to our site to provide further insight to The Loriners; to explore what makes us special and to share our aspirations and ambitions for the Trust.

About The Loriners MAT

The Loriners Multi Academy Trust was formed by Park Hall Junior Academy in 2022 and is an all primary trust, currently incorporating Park Hall Junior Academy and Park Hall Infant Academy. This is an exciting time to join our trust as we progress on our journey to MAT expansion and development.

We believe that, in primary education, unique-ness is key so that all schools in our MAT, or considering joining us in the future, can be assured that they can continue to hold dear the things that are important to them.

The Loriners MAT embodies the spirit of the Black Country and the proud heritage of our localities. Our vision incorporates ‘being stronger together’ as the trust embraces opportunities to collaborate, connect and commit in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for our children.

We strongly believe that, by working in partnership with schools both within and outside of our Trust, along with the wider community, we can utilise the strengths of all those involved. We are fortunate to work in partnership with a range of local schools who are good and outstanding and are of differing faiths and socio-economic groups – working with such a diverse community is truly inspirational and supports all of our children with an enriched and successful educational journey.

Every child deserves the very best education and one which meets their needs. Every year they are in school is a chapter within their educational journey. The only way a child, and family, is able to thrive is to have the very best educators teaching and supporting them. This is why we put our people at the heart of everything we do. Without them we cannot achieve ‘Success for All’. This is why we have a strategic approach to improving our people so that they can achieve their very best. The wellbeing of everyone in our family is of high importance to us. We are a team and we listen and respond to the needs of our children, families and our academies.

We continue to support our educators and our schools through Hales Valley Teaching Hub. We also offer this support wider than our Trust schools. We currently have a number of schools who are in a Trust Partnership with us as they find out what they can gain by being part of Hales Valley Trust. In addition, our partnership schools help us to further improve the education we offer to the schools already in our family. Working together is how we will move education forward. Following the pandemic it became clear to everyone that we need one another in order to achieve more. Helen Keller could not have put it any better:

We welcome any school who is interested in joining our Trust family to talk to us about a Trust partnership in order to experience this for yourselves.

I look forward to meeting you to consider how we can work together to achieve ‘Being Stronger Together’.

Our Schools

Park Hall Junior Academy

As the lead school Park Hall Junior Academy formed The Loriners Multi Academy Trust in order to continue to work collaboratively with schools across Walsall and the Black Country and to share our passion for teaching and learning with like-minded schools and communities.

Park Hall Junior Academy converted to a Single Academy Trust in 2012 and is a popular 3 form entry school, with year groups of 100+. Children achieve well and we are proud that many different continents, across the world, are represented through our families.

With many different faiths, cultures and languages represented in our school communities we truly are a united nations!

The juniors was built in the 1970s but, with the help of awards from CIF, we have significantly increased the footprint of our school, building a new block of 6 classrooms which has ensured that we have space to meet the needs of our large year groups. The school is well resourced and, with improvements to heating, lighting and solar panels we are aiming to be as sustainable as possible for the future.

A large field and playground and our planting of hundreds of trees on site ensures that children get the opportunity to appreciate nature at its best – the horse chestnut conker season is always a special time to resurrect those fantastic and real physical games in our technological world!

Our curriculum is broad, balanced and, importantly, builds on prior knowledge and skills in order to develop understanding for the next stage of learning. Our children are successful, resilient and ready for life!

Park Hall Infant Academy

Our partner school, Park Hall Infant Academy, joined The Loriners MAT in 2022 having being a very early converter to single academy status in 2010. The infant academy exemplifies the best of foundation learning and nurture of the whole child in order to develop and grow. As a cornerstone of fantastic practice, the academy has led on many initiatives across the borough and wider environment.

Wonderful resources and fantastic outdoor space allows children’s learning to be enriched through practical and discovery opportunities.

The infant academy has also benefitted from a number of successful CIF awards resulting in 3 new classrooms being built, a significant extension to the hall facilitating greater opportunities for physical education and development of outdoor space and nature areas. A wonderful nursery for 52 FTE children is enriched through quality resources and highly skilled practitioners.

CEO / Executive Headteacher – Mrs Geraldine Healy

I am privileged to be the CEO of The Loriners Multi Academy Trust and the Executive Headteacher of Park Hall Junior Academy and Park Hall Infant Academy. Both schools have been single academy trust since 2012 and 2010 respectively and were early convertors to academisation.

In 2022, The Loriners Multi Academy Trust was formed by Park Hall Junior Academy. Park Hall Infant Academy has historically been our partner school and were delighted to become an official partner

It is a pleasure to work with a highly qualified and committed group of colleagues who support learning from the Early Years to Year 6 and in preparation for Key Stage 3 and beyond.

Chief Finance Officer: Mrs Caroline Gilbert