Our two new free schools were named following a voting process at our Summer Conference in July.

The SEMH school will be named Thrive Learning Academy.

The Alternative Provision Medical School will be named Mansfield Health Academy.

(Dame Averil Mansfield is a pioneer of medicine who was born in Blackpool. She was a surgeon who blazed a trail for women in medicine, becoming the UK’s first female professor of surgery, receiving a lifetime achievement award in 2023).

We are now in the very early stages of planning the buildings development with the Department for Education.