STEP Academy Trust
Georgia Downton is an experienced educator currently serving as a Year 5 class teacher at STEP Academy Trust since September 2023. With a background in tutoring, Georgia has provided science tutoring for primary and GCSE students at MyTutor.co.uk since May 2021, and previously tutored a range of subjects including English, Maths, Science, and Psychology at GoStudent from July 2021 to August 2023. Prior experience includes working as a PAL Leader at the University of the West of England, facilitating support sessions for first-year psychology students from August 2020 to May 2021, and volunteering as a teaching assistant at Harlescott Junior School from July 2017 to February 2019. Georgia holds a degree in Psychology from the University of the West of England, completed in 2022, and has an educational background from Shrewsbury Colleges Group and The Corbet School.
STEP Academy Trust
STEP Academy Trust currently comprises of seven members - Applegarth Academy, David Livingstone Academy, La Fontaine Academy, Gonville Academy, Wolsey Junior Academy, Angel Oak Academy and Heathfield Academy. The name, an acronym, reflects the aspirational nature of the organisation - Striving Together for Excellence in Partnership. Inspired by the commitment to improve children’s life chances, STEP Academies work together to provide high quality learning experiences for all their pupils. STEP Mission STEP Academy Trust is committed to improving the life chances of all children. Where we have the capacity to make a difference we are morally bound to do so. STEP Vision To establish a family of outstanding academies where world class leaders place the children at the heart of everything. As a growing multi-academy trust, STEP is always seeking to recruit talented professionals who share our moral purpose. If STEP’s mission – to improve the life chances of all children – resonates, we would be interested in hearing from you. We are particularly interested in hearing from teachers and aspiring leaders. People interested in working with us, should email: companysecretary@stepacademytrust.org Working in partnership, as part of STEP Academy Trust, has a number of key benefits including: * Rapid dissemination of best-practice across the group – sharing of policies, procedures etc. * Excellent professional development opportunities, which support the recruitment and retention of staff. * Sharing of teachers, expertise and best practice. * Access to high quality, shared services e.g. catering, premises and ICT. * Innovative staffing arrangements – for example, staff working across more than one STEP Academy. * Training days in common, facilitating high quality CPD. * Economies of scale – STEP Academy Trust can procure “value for money” services for all its Academies.