The Mercian Trust
Mark Smith currently serves as the Marketing & Communications Manager at The Mercian Trust since October 2022 and has been a Governor at Penkridge Middle School since February 2021. Previous roles include Director of Governance & Communications and Marketing Manager/Deputy Business Manager at Penk Valley Academy Trust from October 2016 to September 2022. Mark's experience in marketing began at Entrust Support Services Limited as Marketing & Design Manager from April 2013 to October 2016, followed by a position as Website & Data Reporting Lead at Staffordshire County Council. Earlier, Mark worked as Marketing & Website Coordinator at Connexions Staffordshire and as Box Office Manager at Lichfield Garrick Theatre. Mark's educational background includes attendance at King Edward VI School in Lichfield from 1991 to 1998.
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The Mercian Trust
A Multi Academy Trust of nine schools and 10,000 students in Walsall and Sandwell. Often referred to as the most diverse family of schools in the country, the Trust comprises of two selective grammar schools, five large comprehensive schools, a technical and vocational Studio School and an Alternative Provision free school for children at risk of exclusion from mainstream education. All trust schools come together around a common purpose of increasing opportunities and improving outcomes for students and a shared social mobility and social justice mission. OUR ACHIEVEMENTS 🤝 A successful Trust merger creating one of the largest school trusts in the region 🏆 National recognition for the Trust’s two selective grammar schools who are the most successful in the country at increasing the number of local disadvantaged students passing the entrance test and joining the schools ✂ Opening a brand-new purpose-built campus in Walsall Town Centre including an alternative provision free school for students at risk of permanent exclusion from mainstream schools alongside a forthcoming Digital Skills Hub to provide real-time connectivity between students, industry professionals and employers. 📰 National recognition for pioneering work around youth mental health, including establishing an in-house multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and allied health professionals delivering interventions and providing support to vulnerable students. 📅 Organising and hosting regional annual conferences on key youth issues at Villa Park 🔌 A multi-million-pound investment in the digital infrastructure of Trust schools underpinning the ongoing transformation of how staff teach, students learn, leaders lead and the whole Trust operates in readiness for the AI-supercharged careers and workplaces of the future ✅ A catalogue of successful inspections where all trust schools maintained or improved their Ofsted judgements (including two Overall Outstanding Inspection Outcomes).