Ormiston Academies Trust chief executive Nick Hudson tells Jess Staufenberg how he honours the chain’s founding principles of schools rooted in their communities, coping with geographic struggles and thoughts on the controversial schools bill
Nick Hudson, chief executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, is shepherding me into a classroom where a geography teacher is in full flow. With us is one of his 43 headteachers, Claire Stanyer, principal at Ormiston Meridian Academy in Stoke-on-Trent. I’m just commenting admiringly on how spacious the secondary school is, when a pupil stands up.
