ABOUT US
ALET is a family of schools united by a mission to Transform Lives Through Learning by delivering excellent teaching and learning for our students; continuous improvement and personal development for our staff; and a collaborative, supportive and ambitious environment for all. We are passionate about the value of working collaboratively, through our shared Learning Philosophy, for the good of all of our pupils, as well as enabling leaders and governors to shape the right provision for their own local community by providing exciting and innovative education for young people by looking at how we learn as well as what
we learn.
The Trust is currently made up of six schools – two comprehensive schools and four University Technical Colleges (UTCs), and is run with the support of a number of industry and academic partners.
Our schools
OUR VISION
Transforming Lives Through Learning
OUR VALUES
Our Attributes of Resilient, Enterprising, Confident, Aware and Professional
OUR LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
Our approach to teaching and learning is driven by a distinctive and award-winning Learning Philosophy, based on neuroscience.
OUR MOST RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
- January 2024 ALET launches its Middle Leaders Development Programme at the annual conference; an aspiration programme to nurture and develop middle leaders across Trust schools.
- January 2024 The Digital Futures Programme (DFP) is rolled out across all ALET UTCs; UTC Reading, Swindon, Oxfordshire and continuing at Heathrow.
- February 2024 UTC Oxfordshire achieved a Good Ofsted rating for the second time since opening
- February 2024 UTC Swindon given special recognition for its high standard of cyber security teaching with a CyberFirst School Bronze award from the National Cyber Security Centre
- March 2024 ALET UTCs and Partners awarded the Best Talent Developer award again at Data Centre World London in recognition of the Digital Futures Programme
- April 2024 The Bicester School has maintained its Good Ofsted rating following their inspection
- May 2024 UTC Oxfordshire’s Year 12 computer scientists clinched the Inspiration Award at the prestigious Raspberry Pi Competition, with a device that aids those with sensory processing difficulties
- July 2024 Theale Green School adds to its tally of Sports awards with the Platinum School Games award for the third year in a row
- September 2024 UTC Oxfordshire’s Katrina Cornell named Science Technician of the Year
- December 2024 ALET welcomes a generous donation of two robot dogs from Digital Futures Partner, Yondr
- February 2025 UTC Reading celebrates ‘Good’ in their Ofsted inspection
- April 2025 ALET schools unite to tackle sustainablity with a day working with peers across the Trust on this crucial global issue
- May 2025 UTC Reading students secure second place at the final of the REME engineering cup
- May 2025 UTC Reading celebrates achieving the Gold Careers Mark yet again for outstanding careers provision
- Summer 2025 Theale Green School’s buddy reading programme celebrates three years of impact
- June 2025 UTC Swindon welcomes local MP to cut the ribbon on their new E-sports facility
- June 2025 ALET schools celebrate International Women in Engineering Day with an F1 design challenge for UTC Oxfordshire’s girls, and local year 8 girls tackling plastic pollution in the oceans at UTC Heathrow, supported by a team of all-female engineers
- September 2025 The Bicester School celebrates two awards: Gold at the School Games and the Geography Quality Mark
OUR TIMELINE
2015
ALET is formed and The Bicester School joins our Trust
2017
UTC Reading, UTC Oxfordshire and UTC Swindon join our Trust
2018
Theale Green School and UTC Heathrow join our Trust