The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. The school complies with Department for Education guidance on what academies should publish. The school was part of the New Dawn Trust. The trust has been restructured and, from September 2017, is now called Link Education Trust. The school has undergone several changes of leadership in the last three years. The first headteacher was absent from July 2015. Two acting heads had a job-sharing arrangement from July until December 2015. A new headteacher was appointed from January 2016 and was absent from October 2016. The current headteacher held the interim post of head of school from October 2016 until February 2017, when he was appointed to the role of head of school permanently. He became headteacher in September 2017. Inspection report: St Giles Academy, 17–18 October 2017 Page 10 of 13 There has been a large turnover in teaching staff. More than half the staff have been appointed in the last 18 months. The school is much larger than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is nearly double the national average. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is lower than average. The proportion of pupils from minority ethnic groups is lower than the national average. The proportion of pupils who have SEN and/or disabilities is much higher than the national average. The school does not meet the government’s current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils’ attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of Year 6 in 2016.