Greenwood Academies Trust

Greenwood Academies Trust
Nottingham Academy, the trust's 'mother academy'.
Address
Greenwood House,
Colwick Quays Business Park,
Private Road No 2,
Colwick,
, Nottinghamshire, NG4 2JY
United Kingdom
Coordinates52°57′19″N 1°04′37″W / 52.955183°N 1.077013°W / 52.955183; -1.077013
District information
TypeMulti-academy trust
Established31 March 2009 (2009-03-31)
Chair of the boardMike Hamlin
Other information
Websitewww.greenwoodacademies.org

The Greenwood Academies Trust is a large multi-academy trust in England, centred around the Nottingham Academy, which was formerly the Greenwood Dale School. There are 34 academies within the trust, educating over 17,000 pupils.[1]

Organisation

The academies within the trust are clustered into four geographical regions:

  1. East Coast
  2. Northamptonshire / Central Bedfordshire
  3. Nottingham / Leicester
  4. Peterborough

Each region has a liaising advisor. Individual schools do not have local governing bodies but advisory panels.

A Central Team operates across the trust providing support services for finance, ICT, procurement, human resources, catering, data, curriculum development, staff development, health and safety. Schools have control of 94.5% of their budget: the Central Team budget is 5.5%.[2]

Academies

Source:[3][4]


  • Beacon Primary Academy, Skegness, 4-11
  • Bishop Creighton Academy, Peterborough, 4-11
  • City of Peterborough Academy, 11-16
  • City of Peterborough Academy Special School, 4-18
  • Corby Primary Academy, 4-11
  • Danesholme Infant Academy, Corby, 3-7
  • Danesholme Junior Academy, Corby, 7-11
  • Dogsthorpe Academy, Peterborough, 7-11
  • Green Oaks Primary Academy, Northampton, 3-11
  • Hazel Leys Academy, Corby, 3-11
  • Ingoldmells Academy, 4-11
  • Kingswood Primary Academy, Corby, 3-11
  • Kingswood Secondary Academy, Corby, 11-18
  • Mansfield Primary Academy, 3-11
  • Mablethorpe Primary Academy, 3–11
  • Nethergate Academy, Nottingham 5-19
  • Newark Hill Academy, 4-11
  • Nottingham Academy, 3-18
  • Nottingham Girls' Academy, 11-18
  • Purple Oaks Academy, Northampton, 3-18
  • Queensmead Primary Academy, Leicester, 3-11
  • Rushden Primary Academy, 4-11
  • Skegby Junior Academy, 3-11
  • Skegness Academy, 11-18
  • Skegness Infant Academy, 3-7
  • Skegness Junior Academy, 7-11
  • Studfall Junior Academy
  • Studfall Infant Academy
  • Stanground Academy, Peterborough, 11-18
  • Sunnyside Primary Academy, Northampton, 4-11
  • Welland Academy, Peterborough, 4-11
  • The Wells Academy, Nottingham, 11-16
  • The Brunts Academy, Nottingham, 11-18
  • The Bramble Academy, Nottingham, 3-11
  • Weston Favell Academy, Northampton, 11-18
  • Woodvale Primary Academy, Northampton, 3-11

Cancelled projects

Waterside Primary Academy

Waterside Primary Academy was a planned Free School with academy status located in the city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. Plans for the school were announced in 2020, with planning permission approved in 2023.[5][6] It was planned to have capacity for 210 children, with a capacity for 30 nursery aged children.[7] Waterside Primary Academy was built at a total cost of £11.5 million.[8]

Waterside Primary Academy was planned to open in September 2024, but this date was missed and the opening date was delayed until the following year.[9] Funding for Waterside Primary Academy from the department for Education was pulled in December 2024 due to the low number of applications for places at the school.[7]

In January 2025 it was announced that Greenwood Academies Trust had dropped plans to open Waterside Primary Academy.[7] In March 2025 it was announced that former school buildings would be used to expand Rosehill specialist School, with a planned opening date for the expanded specialist school of 2026.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Our academies". www.greenwoodacademies.org. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  2. ^ "About us". www.greenwoodacademies.org. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  3. ^ "List of Academies".
  4. ^ "How we work" (PDF). greenwoodacademies.org. Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  5. ^ "New free school to be built for Nottingham waterside residents". West Bridgford Wire. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  6. ^ Insley, Nicola (22 November 2023). "Plans for The Waterside Primary Academy in Nottingham get go-ahead". Reds10. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  7. ^ a b c Wood, Poppy (12 January 2025). "Net zero primary school will never open because of lack of children". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  8. ^ Adams, Richard (10 December 2025). "Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  9. ^ Locker, Joe (31 December 2024). "Parents on Nottingham estate frustrated over uncertain future of unopened school". News. NottinghamWorld. Local Democracy Reporting Service. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  10. ^ Patel, Asha (27 March 2025). "Empty Nottingham academy site to be used for school expansion". BBC News. Retrieved 11 December 2025.