Overview

Helping Schools Across The World Be The Best They Can Be

The way that Forfar works with schools is bespoke. We invest time, expertise and capital to best suit each school’s unique situation and are able to provide the benefits offered by economies of scale from being part of a group.

  • Collaboration: we work in partnership with our schools. Our experienced HQ team acts like a toolbox of support for Heads and SLTs. We agree on strategy up front, so that we are all aligned before any partnership is made.
  • Implementation: we act fast and efficiently.
  • Dexterity: this is not a one-size-fits-all solution, we recognise that every school is unique and requires a tailored plan.
  • Respect: we are transparent, honest, direct, patient and polite.
  • Authenticity: we do what we say we will, we do not overpromise or mislead. We cannot predict the future.
  • Grounded: we are pragmatists who manoeuvre according to circumstances.
  • Astute: everything we do is underpinned by sound commercial principles, practices and the careful stewardship of our hard earned capital.  We treat the company’s money as if it were our own.

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We believe it critical to a school’s success that these partnerships are sensitively handled, those trusting relationships are built, and that the school’s legacy is maintained.

John Forsyth
Founder and CEO

Our Strategy

Transforming Schools with Long Term Educational Solutions

Our team of operational experts support schools and nurseries with strategic operational knowledge and their expertise gained over many years. The Forfar HQ team bring invaluable insights having worked in schools, at the coal face, at some point in their career prior to joining Forfar. Our approach is multi-faceted and includes:

  • Achieving and maintaining educational excellence
  • Creating a clear 3-5 year masterplan for each school; 3 years planned in detail with a 5-year vision. ​
  • We invest in staff, including training, equipment, international staff exchange programmes, summer staff training camps in the UK career pathway opportunities for staff which cannot be replicated at single schools​
  • Specialist expertise; Academic, pastoral, IT, crisis management, admissions, marketing, HR, legal ​
  • Upfront investment into facilities and digital infrastructure ​to ensure all schools meet the ‘Forfar Standard’.

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Our Expertise

Allowing school leaders to focus on what they do best – educating children

With increasing regulation, and more onerous inspection criteria, and complex financials many Heads and SLTs have become more corporate administrators and detached from the core of their role. Forfar frees up leadership time to allow school management teams to focus on what is important – educating children.

For many school owners, the decision to seek investment can be difficult. For some, they recognise that it is time to ‘pass on the mantle’ to a new operator. For many others, especially not-for-profit schools, they realise that increasingly operating schools is becoming a complex and costly full-time business which requires professional full-time governance by a team of school experts.