Tech firm partners with top performing multi-academy trust

Educational technology firm L.E.A.D. IT Services has partnered with one of the country’s top performing multi-academy trusts.

The Pride Park firm, which is supporting hundreds of schools across the UK with their IT, has now signed up to partner with the highly rated Flying High Trust, which runs 35 schools across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Nottingham.

The trust is ranked second in the country among multi-academy trusts of the same size for pupils’ combined progress across English and Maths.

After establishing the partnership, L.E.A.D. IT and Flying High are now working together to strategically invest in IT across the next three years to ensure digital equity across all its schools, with L.E.A.D. IT Services on board as the main service delivery partner.

The firm has audited all 35 primary phase schools in the Flying High family to establish their IT requirements moving forward.

Now each school has begun working with Flying High Trust and L.E.A.D. IT Services on creating a comprehensive IT investment and development plan.

The plans involve fitting schools with high-speed broadband to ensure smooth teaching, learning and business operations.

They will also be equipped with devices such as up-to-date iPads suitable for education and business.

Lee Jepson, director and founder of L.E.A.D. IT Services, said: “We are very proud to be working with Flying High Partnership in helping them implement a comprehensive IT strategy across all their schools.

“We aim to take the stress of IT away from teachers by liaising with third party contractors and doing all of the behind the scenes work so that they can use tech effectively where it matters: teaching children.

“Our work includes everything from assessing risk; updating equipment; ensuring security is up to date; keeping abreast of when equipment needs to be replaced and advising on the best value for money solutions for schools.

“We are very proud of our work with schools and the relationships our IT team have been able to build with teachers and students.

“We look forward to our partnership with Flying High to continue flourishing in the future.”