St Mary’s C.E. Primary School

As Strategic Lead for Achievement across Empower Trust, Sarah North plays a key role in improving pupil outcomes and ensuring every child reaches their full potential. She collaborates closely with the Director of Education, fellow strategic leads and headteachers to shape and deliver strategies that drive equity, excellence, and sustained improvement.

In addition, Sarah works with headteachers and senior leaders to analyse performance data, identify trends, and co-design targeted interventions that close gaps and accelerate progress. She also mentors leaders, supports professional development, and helps embed robust systems for monitoring and evaluation.

Her work helps ensure achievement is not only measured by outcomes, but by the growth, confidence, and aspirations of every learner.

Sarah’s work directly supports Empower Trust’s mission: to ensure our young people receive the best education, the best enrichment, and everything they need to flourish and thrive.