Jonathan Culpin, CEO

Welcome to Anglian Learning, a multi-academy trust serving learners from 3 to 18 years across East Anglia in a variety of rural and urban contexts. One of our schools first welcomed pupils in 1588 while Marleigh Primary Academy, our newest school, opened its doors in September 2022. Another one of our academies can lay a very strong claim to being the first community school in the country, a pioneer of the village college movement established by Henry Morris in 1930, we remain committed to this ethos nearly 100 years later.

Anglian Learning’s 18 academies Transform Together through our creative curriculums, adult learning programmes, commitment to the arts and in our Anglian Leisure community sports facilities.

Each of our academies retain their own identity and ethos but are collectively driven by our strong belief that all children and young people, whichever school they attend and whatever their background, deserve to have access to an excellent education. In turn, enabling them to thrive in the changing local, national, and global communities where each child is supported, nurtured, happy and safe to be the best they can be.

To achieve this ambition, we need to unleash and harness the huge capacity for improvement that comes from working closely together as a group of transformational leaders and schools. Anglian Learning has been founded on strong collaborative, empowering and trusting relationships, where everybody is committed to sharing their successes, but equally open to innovative approaches, alternative perspectives and professional challenges to do what is right for our learners and people.

Our DNA captures how we work together.

Jonathan Culpin.