Welcoming Summerlea as our tenth primary school

Summerlea Community Primary School has joined our Trust, following its conversion to an academy. The school is based in Rustington and supports 396 pupils and 63 staff. Summerlea is the tenth school to join our Trust, linking with our network of South Coast schools in West Sussex. 

Summerlea began its conversion to an academy in 2023, initially taking part in our Associate Membership scheme. The programme offers single academies and maintained schools the opportunity to join us for a term to explore what life is like as part of a multi-academy trust.  

Our CEO Cathy Williams shared: “Adding a tenth school to our Trust feels very special and we are excited to welcome the whole Summerlea community to our family of schools. Summerlea is on a rapid journey of improvement and its commitment to ensuring that its pupils achieve academically whilst enjoying a broad, rich and diverse wider curriculum – including its impressive range of extra-curricular clubs - is inspiring.”

Joe Todd, Headteacher at Summerlea Community Primary School added his thoughts: “We’re so pleased to have joined the Schoolsworks family. Summerlea is a very special place for children to learn and grow, and we’re committed to ensuring we offer the very best to our pupils. It’s been impressive to see the success of a number of other Schoolsworks schools around us, and we’re looking forward to the extra layer of support the Schoolsworks team will provide to help us continue to drive forward with our improvement journey.” 

As a growing MAT we are very proud of our track record of school improvement, with our schools consistently praised by Ofsted with fourteen successive ‘good’ judgements and one ‘outstanding’ judgement.