Welcome
The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust is a group of schools serving communities across North and West Yorkshire. Our thirteen schools, two secondaries and eleven primaries, work together to educate more than 4,800 pupils. In doing this, we aim to fulfil our mission of Working together as a true family of schools to offer the best possible high quality Catholic education, enabling the spiritual, moral, intellectual and personal development and well-being of all our pupils, to help sustain high quality Catholic education for families within our area.
The Trust has already had a significant impact and will continue to improve further the education of our students. Our schools recognise the considerable benefits that come from belonging to networks of excellence that provide support and development to staff throughout their career, from their Initial Teacher Training to preparing to be the next generation of school leaders. Being members of the Trust has formalised this collaboration between schools, sharing a vision to provide the best possible Catholic Education for all of our pupils, ensuring that our partnership is strategic, structured and resilient, forged from a common vision of serving our local communities.
This is an exciting time for all the schools involved, ensuring that we provide a wide variety of opportunities for all of our pupils. I am privileged, as Trust Chief Executive, to lead such a strong, dedicated team, to embrace schools into the Trust, thus fulfilling the Bishop’s vision to provide a collaborative framework of schools, who work together for the benefit of all the young people within the Diocese.
Darren Beardsley
CEO, The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust
The 13 schools who have converted into academies under The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust are:
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Ilkley, a Voluntary Academy
St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Pudsey, a Voluntary Academy
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Otley, a Voluntary Academy
Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Knaresborough, a Voluntary Academy
St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Harrogate, a Voluntary Academy
St. Stephen's Catholic Primary School and Nursery, a Voluntary Academy
St Robert’s Catholic Primary School, Harrogate, a Voluntary Academy
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (Tadcaster)
Year Five loved being gymnasts on a range of apparatus. They have recently explored ways of travelling, balancing and rolling.
We warmly welcome Parents/Carers of children starting school in September 2024 to come and see our incredible school.
The fun ‘glow in the dark’ activity took place in the Hall on 24 October 2023
More than £3,000 has been raised to spend on exciting brand new books for school.
David Geldart, Founder and CEO of the Bambisanani Partnership was recently invited to speak at the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece.
St. Mary’s celebrated the Harvest Festival at Church on 6 October 2023.
A vacancy exists for a Foundation Director for The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust