E-ACT – The Oldham Academy North & Royton and Crompton Academy

As featured in the Oldham Times, Oppidan recently begun a partnership with their first two schools in the E-ACT trust, The Oldham Academy North & Royton and Crompton Academy. 

This was facilitated by the innovative work of the Eton Star Partnership. 

About ESP, Eton has said the following: 

In 2020, faced with the pandemic and various social issues it exposed across the country, Eton’s Leadership Team decided that it needed to respond by taking a decisive step forward as an institution. Eton has therefore formed a partnership with the outstanding multi-academy trust Star Academies to establish a series of sixth-form schools on the model of the highly successful London Academy of Excellence (LAE). 

As with LAE, these schools – which will be in Dudley in the West Midlands, Oldham in Greater Manchester, and Middlesbrough in Teesside – will be selective state-funded sixth form colleges opened as part of the government’s transformative free school programme. 

These new schools will focus on taking talented and ambitious young people, often from the most disadvantaged communities, and helping them achieve places at the very best universities. To achieve this, an extraordinary educational model is now being designed that will offer an intensive academic A level curriculum enhanced by extra study, enrichment lessons and volunteering. 

Oppidan started work with a motivation day for Y9 students helping them to establish their goals and develop an improved attitude to school and learning ahead of the GCSE process.  

Working in groups, mentoring content was focused around three key outcomes: readiness, oracy and character (ROC) that is the bedrock of everything we do in schools.  

With a successful first day, Oppidan are delighted to be returning to The Oldham Academy North for a 1:1 mentoring for students in June 2024.