Haberdashers' Academies Trust South

The Haberdashers’ Academies Trust South (HATS) is a multi-academy trust of 4 secondary schools and 5 primary schools in south-east London.

 

HATS and its predecessors have been educating children and young people since 1876, when the moral imperative was to ensure that every child in its care received the best possible education in order to make the best start in life. That moral imperative remains today, underpinned by the trust’s values of aspiration and achievement, personal responsibility, self-discipline and mutual respect.

 

In 2007, Temple Grove Schools Trust partnered with HATS to co-sponsor the conversion of 3 primary schools into academies. HATS now has 5 primary academies:

 

• Haberdashers’ Crayford Primary

• Haberdashers’ Hatcham Primary

• Haberdashers’ Hatcham Free School

• Haberdashers’ Knights Primary

• Haberdashers’ Slade Green Primary

 

These schools benefit from a Restricted Fund, set up and managed by Temple Grove Schools Trust, to provide after-school enrichment provision for pupils at the schools.  Temple Grove also nominates a trustee to the HATS Trust Board.

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Under the leadership of its CEO Jan Shadick, HATS' five primary schools educate approximately 1,500 pupils in schools that are rated by Ofsted as “Good” or “Outstanding”.  HATS supports Temple Grove initiatives, with some of its teachers participating in the Temple Grove Farmington Teacher Scholarships.