THE board of directors of a South Yorkshire academy have confirmed the appointment of its headteacher.
David Page had been acting principal at Trinity Academy, in Thorne, after taking over the reins almost a year ago following the retirement of the previous head Ian Brew.
Mr Page joined the academy as vice principal academic at Easter 2013.
Chairman Nigel Robson said: “Mr Page stepped up into the acting principal position in difficult circumstances following the Ofsted inspection at the end of 2013.
“Since then he has reshaped the leadership team, and instituted a series of actions to improve and drive educational performance. We are now seeing the benefits of this, and if students maintain their current progress we look forward to very encouraging results this summer.”
Mr Robson added that the academy was going from strength to strength under Mr Page’s leadership, improvement that was recognised by Ofsted in its regular monitoring inspections, by the Department for Education and by the Regional Schools Commissioner.
Mr Page said: “The last 12 months have been challenging, yet extremely rewarding, for me, my senior leadership team and all our staff, who have demonstrated incredible, professional commitment and resilience.
“A lot of people have put in a huge amount of work to drive Trinity forward. We’ve had amazing support from parents, and students too have really risen to the challenge to make sure they get the most from their time here. We still have work to do but we are doing everything possible to raise standards, both now and in the longer term.
“We have very strong foundations on which to build and move forward for the benefit of our students, families and this community, and I’m delighted to be leading that as the academy’s principal.”
