“The comprehensive Data Audit has given us clear oversight of the data across all our schools and led to the development of a coherent data strategy. Working with Novatia has supported our Trust at every step.”
“I would certainly recommend Novatia with no doubt. It made my life a lot easier so I could focus on other things.”
“You’ve been a joy to work with and we’re especially bowled over by the support, advice and general attention that you have shown. We truly believe that our IT is now second to none so thank you.”
“The level of detail and governance provided by Novatia helped The Abbey School to define an ICT service that fully met the needs of the school both today and going forward.”
“Novatia worked alongside Ofsted, complementing our internal knowledge of the business with first-rate project management capability.”
“With Novatia’s support the Trust has been able to make practical IT security improvements that are pragmatic, secure and cost effective.”
"Novatia’s experience and professionalism throughout all aspects of the process resulted in the appoint of an ICT managed service provider that fully matched our requirement.”
"We have benefited from the depth of Novatia's professional experience
and commercialism"
"In the true spirit of partnership Novatia quickly became a trusted member of the team and went the extra yard, providing insightful strategic, financial and operational ideas."
Academy Transformation Trust (ATT) wanted all of their pupils, teachers, staff and parents, across their 22 academies, to benefit from the innovations at some of their leading ICT schools.
The Abbey School is a leading independent girls’ school based in Reading. The school is situated across four main sites and takes girls from Nursery (age 3) to Sixth Form (age 18). The four sites are: The Abbey School (Senior; The Abbey Junior School; The Abbey Gardens; The Knell (Nursery).
Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) is a not-for-profit sponsor of 36 primary and secondary academies. Following a strategic review of procurement processes at both a Trust-wide and academies level, James Miller, OAT’s National Director of Estates & Technology, identified that the time was right to engage in Trust-wide strategic procurement for the essential IT services of broadband, telephony, and e-safety.
Archway Learning Trust was looking for a leader of ICT security within the education sector that could audit, assess, evaluate and recommend robust solutions to improve the overall IT security effectiveness within the organisation. Novatia instantly understood our needs and were able to support the Trust with all areas of the work in extensive scope.
The goal of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) is to achieve excellence in education and skills for learners of all ages, and in the care of children and young people. It employs 1,500 staff and every week, it carries out hundreds of inspections and regulatory visits throughout England, publishing the results online. In the last academic year Ofsted conducted inspections for 3,359 schools, 410 Further Education/sixth form colleges and 20,761 childminders and nurseries. In the same time period, it delivered over 2,000 children’s social care inspections.
The Grange Primary School in Scunthorpe is one of eight new-build schools in North and North East Lincolnshire, selected to be built under the Education Funding Agency (EFA) Regional PSBP Framework. The School replaces two existing schools, Grange Lane Infant and Grange Lane Junior School, deemed no longer fit for purpose.
More than a contract—a trusted and strategic partner
Novatia's work with the Skinners' Kent Academy has set the foundation for the strongest kind of partnership, with ICT underpinning the Academy's strategy for school improvement. The Academy has faced a unique challenge in recovering from an underperforming, under-subscribed predecessor school. As one of the only non-selective state secondary schools in Tunbridge Wells, significant reputation repair was required to remedy declining roll due to local competition from grammar, private and state schools in competing authorities. Along with its new purpose-built building, provision and use of high-quality, media-rich, engaging technologies was seen as a unique selling point for the Academy and continues to be a key differentiator for young people in their local choice of school.
James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS) is a high-performing, independent, day school delivering education to girls, ages 4 to 18 across two sites in Dulwich, London. JAGS has worked to strike the right balance, building on the foundations of its rich 270 year history while looking to the future. The school's leaders believe that the ICT environment is of the utmost importance to the delivery of an excellent education and service to the School's pupils and parents.
In the autumn term of 2013, Rise Park Junior School was placed in Special Measures following an Ofsted inspection. The headteacher left and an Interim Headteacher (Zoe Sharman) was given the task of driving the school forward and responding positively and vigorously to the Ofsted findings and recommendations. The areas highlighted for improvement ranged from improving teaching and learning in Maths and English, to improving writing across all year groups, to incorporating more efficient behaviour systems and leadership and management throughout the school and governance.
In autumn 2012 Plymouth School of Creative Arts (a 4-16 all through Free School) entered the pre-opening phase of its development. Martin Sweeney (Novatia Education Director) was appointed as Education Adviser, to work with and support the Trust in successfully completing all the educational tasks necessary to ensure the school opened on time in September 2013.