Onboarding Schools to Multi-Academy Trusts

Bringing schools into a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) is an exciting opportunity for growth and collaboration, but it requires careful planning and execution from an early stage. Our expert team is here to support your MAT in welcoming new schools making it a positive experience for all, ensuring a smooth and successful integration. 

With our comprehensive onboarding service, we take care of the details, so your leadership team can focus on delivering the tasks to ensure the seamless delivery of quality education. Onboarding tasks are prioritised for day one, term one and year one and often delivered by the Trusts in house team with GKA offering additional capacity as required. 

How We Support You

Our full-service onboarding package includes: 

  • Strategic Planning: We create a tailored onboarding plan, managed through Monday.com that aligns with your MAT’s vision and objectives, capacity and skills.
  • User training: We will provide training and support to help those delivering onboarding tasks understand the systems, processes and timescales.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: We facilitate engagement with all stakeholders ensuring transparency, collaboration, and alignment between the MAT and the incoming school(s).
  • Cultural Integration: We work to integrate the school’s ethos within your MAT, fostering a shared vision and ensuring a cohesive trust-wide culture.
  • Policy Harmonisation: We can assist with the review and harmonisation of policies across the Trust to ensure consistency and compliance.
  • Ongoing Support: We can offer continued support post-onboarding to help the school settle into the Trust and thrive within the MAT structure.

 

Contact us to find out more
What Our Clients Think:
Smart Multi Academy Trust - Onboarding New Schools

Colin Lofthouse, CEO Smart Multi Academy Trust

“This is a really exciting period of growth for Smart but equally quite daunting when doing it for the first time! GKA were referred to us as academy experts and we can’t recommend them highly enough. They have provided clarity, reassurance and capacity when we have required it whilst also developing our teams knowledge and understanding for which we are very grateful.“

Venn Academy Trust - Growth and Onboarding New Schools

SIMON WITHAM, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, VENN ACADEMY TRUST

“Colleagues at GKA are an integral part of our capacity in Venn and have been since day one, they have contributed to the success we are today. Their knowledge and understanding of MAT’s is exemplary and we value the breadth of the support they offer the Venn team at any point when we need it.”

Three Spires Trust - Growth and Onboarding Schools

Emily Verow, Chief Executive Officer

“Partnering with Gail Khan Associates has been instrumental in the creation and growth of the Three Spires Trust. Their expertise and hands-on approach ensured that every aspect of the process, from the initial application to the formation and expansion of the MAT, was managed with precision and care. The value GKA brought to our project extended far beyond project management; they provided vital strategic guidance, mitigated risks, and helped us recruit exceptional leadership for the Trust. Their support has been invaluable in turning our vision into a reality, and their ongoing contribution continues to be a driving force behind our success.”  

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