Hywel Jones has been appointed as CEO of BCAT, the Trust which oversees Wixams Academy and Wixams Tree Primary schools.
Hywel succeeds Alan Evans, Interim CEO and will join in June, working with parents and the Trust to bring to fruition expansion plans both at Wixams Tree Primary and Wixams Academy, including the new sixth form.
Hywel is an experienced senior leader in education. Over the past few years as
Secondary Director at Astrea Academy Trust, Hywel has overseen the improvement of nine secondary schools.
Hywel has also worked in the primary sector supporting schools in a variety of contexts to improve their educational standards.
Hywel is perhaps best well known in the sector for his Headship at the West London Free School, the first Free School in England, where he led the school to strong GCSE and A-Level exam results placing it amongst the most over-subscribed schools in England and amongst the top-achieving comprehensive state schools in West London. He has been a Non-Executive Director for Ofqual, the qualifications regulator, since 2017.
Prior to working in education, Hywel worked in consulting providing advice to executive boards in the sports sector. Hywel lives near Saffron Walden in Essex, has three children, is a keen cyclist, hockey player and an avid reader of Cold War history.
BCAT Chair Anthony Abrahams said: “We welcome Hywel as the first full time CEO of BCAT. Hywel joins at an exciting time for the Trust, Wixams Tree Primary and the Academy. Both schools are about to expand and develop substantially and Hywel stood out as the ideal candidate to meet these challenges and to lead the Trust, staff and students into the future.
Hywel said: “I am looking forward to working with school leaders, teachers, parents and trustees to take the schools forward for the local community.”
