A vibrant, positive, STEM-focused free school in Barnsley. Awarded Ofsted Oustanding May 2024. World Class Schools Quality Mark & Quality in Careers Standard
We are delighted to share with you that Trinity Academy St Edward’s has been graded as ‘Outstanding in all areas’ in our first Ofsted Section 5 inspection. We are so proud of this achievement ❤️
#academicexcellence
#amazingexperience
#outstanding
Today's the day 🎉
We are incredibly excited to announce that TASE is officially OPEN! ⭐️ Our fabulous
#foundingcohort
arrived looking smart in their new uniform & cheered along with some parents as our Principal cut the ribbon & welcomed our students into their new school 🥳
It’s here! Our grand opening! We’re ready to welcome our founding cohort and all our other amazing children over the next four days. Welcome to your new home
Meet our NEW principal, Mark Allen!
Hear what he has to say about joining TAB...
"I am delighted & honoured to be appointed the new Principal & to serve the TAB Community. I look forward to meeting our 2021 cohort & their parents over the coming weeks & months" 💬❤️
#Barnsley
We’re delighted to share with you our latest drone photos of our new build. The sports centre steel work is up and the side panels and roof are developing nicely. Soooo exciting
#teamtrinity
We are delighted to announce that planning permission has been granted for our new build on Keresforth Close.A culmination of lots of hard work by the Trust, BMBC,
@bandkbuild
& the DfE. We are so excited to further enhance our offer and the impact it will have on our community
WOW. Our Year 7 students have received a parcel from Darren Shan himself! ❤️🎁 Last half term our students loved reading his book, 'Cirque du Freak', & have now been gifted the full collection. 🤩📚 A HUGE thanks to
@darrenshan
- we can't wait to read them!
#Barnsley
It’s not everyday you get the keys to a brand new £25million pound new build. A celebration is needed tonight - this building will transform lives. So proud and excited 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
🚨Exciting event alarm🚨
Mr Allen, Mrs Gilmore and Alex and Tilly from Y9 visited our new site today and signed the steel work of the building on behalf of current and future students. A big thank you to the
@bandkbuild
team for your hospitality
#teamtrinity
#changinglives
What a day Y7 have had and what a fantastic group of children they are. We started with our TASE tradition of our guard of honour. Can’t wait to welcome Y7 and all the other year groups tomorrow.
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We are proud of our excellence at TASE. Year 7 have been working hard to demonstrate this already and ‘showing their best’. Congratulations to Miss Walker’s form who were deemed ‘the best’
#pride
#academicexcellence
#teamtrinity
Day one complete for our new cohort. Learning about our systems and processes and finishing with a house competition and new friendships. What a fabulous group of children. We look forward to seeing you all again tomorrow. Welcome to the
#teamtrinity
family ❤️🔴⚫️🔴❤️
Our first full week is under way at TASE ⭐️ We've had a great start ☺️ Check out these fab images of us establishing our routines and beginning our exciting curriculum! 🎉
#Year7
#FoundingCohort
Great to see the progress of work on our new site coming along. We love our building now, but the galaxy never mind the sky awaits once we move in
#teamtrinity
#dreambig
#community
We are so proud of our
#FoundingMember
, Isla 🤩❤️ Another awesome achievement as she has just won the U13 British
#IceSkating
championship qualifier against 70 other competitors 🙌 Great job Isla!
#TASEHERO
🚨Exciting news alert - we are
#WorldClass
🚨
We are delighted to share with you that Trinity Academy St Edward’s has been accredited World Class School’s Quality Mark status. What a testament to our amazing students
@WCSQM
@trinity_mat
We’re looking forward to seeing our amazing children next week and then welcoming our new fabulous Y7 cohort on Monday 9th. You are going to love your new school.
We presented Mr Davies with his highly commended certficate today for his nomination as Oustanding New Teacher of the Year 2023. We’re delighted to have such a talented colleague as part of our staff
#ThankATeacher
Our Governors and Prefects are ready and waiting to meet and greet our special guests as part of our community open day. We can’t wait to show everyone the facilities
Mr Allen was delighted to award Isla with her Principal’s Commendation this morning. Isla competes nationally & internationally at ice skating, alongside this she has made the most academic progress this year. What an achievement. Well done Isla
#academic
&
#sportingexcellence
Hot chocolate Friday ☕️
To celebrate some of our student heroes from this week we enjoyed a little hot chocolate break 🤩 It was lovely to give them a treat for all their hard work ❤️ Happy
#Friday
!
It’s finally arrived! We are ready to welcome our brand new Y7 cohort this morning and our Founding Cohort a little later today. We’re ready to change lives, dream big and work hard.
#teamtrinity
#academicexcellence
#amazingexperiences
Another exciting morning in the St Edward’s journey. Mr Allen and Mr Marsh had the first full site visit with Bowmer and Kirkland. Things are moving along well and steel work is being constructed. The site is taking shape!
What a fantastic first day! It was brilliant to meet our new Y7s looking so smart. Then welcoming our Y8s back too. We’ve had induction, lessons, tours and our legendary House competitions….and it’s only day 1.
#teamtrinity
Wow! What a fab feeling to see our academy ready to welcome our
#foundingcohort
⭐️ We can't wait to start this incredible journey with our
#Year7
students!
⭐️ Exciting times! ⭐️
A planning application for our new academy building is due to be submitted to
#Barnsley
Metropolitan Borough Council, however, before submitting our proposal, we would love to hear your comments 👉
Mr Allen visited the new site today. Lots more work has happened, all the levels are in place, waste soil being removed and the boring drill for foundations due next week. The space just after and slightly right of the barrier is where the Sports Hall will be located
#exciting
We are all so excited to welcome our children back next Friday. The
#TeamTrinity
magic will start again. We cant wait to see everyone looking smart and ready to learn.
#thenextchapter
Welcome
#teamtrinity
to our new cohort of children and families waking up this morning. We’re looking forward to meeting you all over the next few months. ❤️❤️
Our new Portakabin classrooms and DT workshop are ready to go! What a fantastic addition to our site. We can’t wait to see all the learning taking place in them.
We celebrated our Masters of Recall results today. 🙌 Students scored an average of 82% with 194 instances of 100% subject stickers. ❤️
#MastersOfRecall
#Barnsley
We’re looking forward to presenting our new TASE chocolate bars to our subject heroes in rewards assemblies. There are golden tickets in some bars and the winner of those will get an extra prize! Thanks to
@JJASnack
for our partnership. Get working hard everyone!
#rewards
🏆 House Competitions have already started at TASE! House Hawking won the first competition with the loudest cheer = 100 points! 🤩 We love these images of our
#FoundingMembers
competing for the ‘over under' challenge ... House Musk won first place 🏅
#HouseSystem
#Competition
A fantastic first day with our new and existing staff team getting ready for our amazing children returning next week. Then the latest drone phitos of our new site landed too! How amazing it looks and moving so quickly
#teamtrinity
⭐️ Student Achievement ⭐️
We love this picture of our 20 students who received the highest scores in our recent Masters of Recall! ❤️ A HUGE well done to all of you 🏆
#MastersOfRecall
Wow! What an amazing team effort from our
#FoundingStaff
today ❤️🙌 Great to see so many fantastic outfits✨ We have had such a lovely day... a HUGE thanks to everyone who took part ☺️
#EuropeanLanguagesDay
#TeamTrinity
The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.
It's Hot Chocolate Friday ☕️
We love these images! A group of our
#foundingcohort
have been enjoying hot choc Friday with Mr Allen for consistently demonstrating our core values! 🤗❤️✨
#Friday
We're amazed at the dedication our students have shown to reading this half term! It has been a joy to watch them enjoy the text 'Cirque du Freak' with such enthusiasm 🙌
#Reading
We recently contacted the author, Darren Shan, & he responded with a fab message to our pupils 🤩💬
Happy Half Term!
We had a fabulous end of term assembly this morning where we awarded our Subject Heroes, House Heroes and Staff Heroes 🏆❤️✨ A HUGE thank you to all of our wonderful founding students & staff who have worked incredibly hard this half term... enjoy your holiday!
What a brilliant night tonight was! The children were amazing, as was Barnsley Metropolitan Brass Bang. A true community Christmas event. Well done
@TASEMusic
Mr Allen and Mr Marsh enjoyed a site visit today at our new build site on Keresforth Close. Great to meet the team and see all the pilings done. Look out for the steelwork being erected over the next few weeks
#exciting
#newbuild
We can’t wait to welcome both Y7 and Y8 at the same time tomorrow and have our first full week together. What an exciting term we have ahead! We can’t wait to greet you all in the morning
#teamtrinity
Wow! We are incredibly proud of our student, Jaimee, for taking the initiative to raise money for the Little Princess Trust ✨ Just before joining
#Year7
, she cut off her long locks to help make wigs for children who have lost their hair due to cancer ❤️🙌 AMAZING!
@LPTrustUK
It’s fantastic Friday at St Edward’s. This week we’re celebrating the way Y7 have settled and ‘shown their best’. These students from LWR, JBS and JJM were nominated by the tutors for ‘blowing them away this week with their manners and attitude’
#principalsaward
🚨 Award siren for St Edward’s🚨
We are immensely proud to announce that we have been awarded the Most Visionary Careers Programme award from South Yorkshire Careers Hub.
#careers
#innovation
We’re looking forward to all these smiley faces coming back to us tomorrow with lots of weekend stories. See you in the morning for another fantastic TASE week
#teamtrinity
⭐️ Student Achievement ⭐️
We'd like to say a HUGE congratulations to our fab student, Isla, who was placed 3rd place in the British Championships for her ice skating ⛸️❤️We are incredibly proud! 🙌
#BritishChampionships
#IceSkating
We also had five boys in Y7 who scored an amazing 160/160 - smashing previous records as no Y7 had ever done this in term 1. What a fantastic achievement- well done all of you
#academicexcellence
We are absolutely thrilled as a STEM school be be awarded the Space Education Quality Mark at GOLD level
🚀🏆
@ESERO_UK
What a fantastic achievement & result of
@TASE_Sci
hard work.Even more amazing experiences will be in store for our children
#teamtrinity
@WCSQM
@trinity_mat
What a fantastic first week in our new building. We’ve loved seeing our children’s responses. Even better to come as we welcome our amazing new Y7s on Monday. We can’t wait to see you all.
Another example of the responsibility our children show each day. Sol, Jackson, Keegan and Miller noticed a stray dog this morning and safely guided it to the authorities at the bus station to be reunited with it’s owner.
#teamtrinity
#principalaward
We absolutely love this poster that Isla created based on the motto her form group, 7SEN, came up with ☺️ "Not everyone is good at everything. We all have a weakness." ❤️💬 We're super proud! 🐝🕷️🐟
Some of our children were part of the Armistice Day service today at the Town Hall, laying a wreath and paying all of our respects. The school held a two-minute silence too.
#ArmisticeDay
#teamtrinity
#respect
✍️ Penfriends!
Our students have been waiting patiently for their first letters from their
#French
#penfriends
and they finally arrived. 🥳 We've had a great time reading all the lovely letters 💌
We're excited to announce that our brand NEW science labs and assembly/performance hall are completed ❤️🥳 We can't wait for our first lessons to take place in our new facilities after half term... So exciting!
Our temporary classrooms are all in place for September, working on making them ready for use now! More steel has been erected at the new site too and the foundations done for the sports centre
Lots of exciting work happening at Eastgate at the moment for September and Mr Allen had another new build visit today, the lift shaft is up!
#exciting
Did you know that we are the only mainstream secondary school to be graded Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted EVER in Barnsley? 🌟 Read all about our record-breaking grading:
NEW! Principal's blog
Hear from Mark Allen who introduces two new TAB team members ⭐️❤️ Take a look & meet our new Chair of Governors, Nigel & our Curriculum Leader for maths, Steph 🤩🙌
Take a look:
#Barnsley
#Secondary
🚨Amazing announcement time 🚨
Trinity Academy St Edward’s has been shortlisted for ‘World Class School of the Year 2023’. We are one of 5 schools out of 147 shortlisted.
Another superb achievement for our school.
@WCSQM
@trinity_mat
Anyone for cake and coffee? A little treat for our amazing staff team for all their hard work this term. Big thanks to one of our local businesses Cafe Creme at the Interchange for supplying the goodies
#teamtrinity
#cake
#coffee
Fantastic effort from our amazing staff yesterday for
#EuropeanDayofLanguages
, we even had an ‘English breakfast’ in there. Learning challenges continue throughout the week
We'd like to say a HUGE congrats to Miss Richardson, our science technician. ⭐️❤️ She was nominated by our students as this week’s
#staff
hero. She does a great job setting up lessons, supporting learning, doing the tills and running INVOLVE clubs 🙌
#teamtrinity
Our children have received a lovely gift from our building contractors
@bandkbuild
and other companies involved in our build below. Everyone has a rucksack they can collect. What a fantastic gesture 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Our first
#hotchocFriday
winners from our new Y7 cohort. All nominated by their form tutors for settling so well and working very hard in lessons. Well done to all of you!
#teamtrinity
#academicexcellence