Our aim is to harness the professional strengths within our schools to provide sustainable improvement in the standards and effectiveness of teaching and learning for all pupils. On the 1st January 2019, our Trust was founded by Broke Hall Community Primary and Springfield Junior School. In 2020 we expanded and were delighted to be joined by five local schools: Abbot’s Hall, Chilton and Combs Ford Community Primaries in Stowmarket; Bosmere Community Primary in Needham Market and Freeman Community Primary in Stowupland.

Our Trust includes Springfield Teaching School Alliance and we form part of Ipswich Research School. We are currently looking at developing our own pathway to train teachers of the future.

Springfield Teaching School Alliance

Springfield TSA is led by Louise Everitt and was founded in the Autumn of 2015. It provides a broad and varied range of continuous professional development courses and offers bespoke school to school support from a directory of Specialist Leaders in Education. It is renowned for its Newly (and recently) Qualified Teacher training. For more information, visit: springfieldtsa.net

Ipswich Research School

Springfield Juniors form part of the Ipswich Research School in collaboration with Highfield Nursery School and Farlingaye and Kesgrave TSA. The Research Schools Network is a collaboration between the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Institute for Effective Education (IEE). Its aim is to create a network of schools that support the use of evidence to improve teaching practice. For more information, visit: ipswich.researchschool.org.uk