Strategic Priorities

Now more than ever, society requires our schools to provide the best quality of education possible for our students.

To achieve this, our focus needs to be on ensuring that our schools have the capacity and expertise to deliver a high-quality, broad and balanced curriculum that responds to their individual context. Our ambition is for our schools to clearly understand their purpose and to implement an ambitious curriculum for all learners so that they develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to thrive and make a positive difference to society.

The curriculum needs to be delivered by classroom practitioners who have a deep understanding of cognitive science and pedagogy, and utilise a range of strategies effectively to enable pupils to learn and develop. We aim to ensure that all staff are equipped with the right skills, and have access to the right resources and services, to meet the needs of all students in a way that leverages the greatest impact on their learning.

This will only happen if we effectively and purposefully support and challenge leaders at all levels across the Trust, ensuring they have the leadership skills to utilise an extensive set of domain-specific knowledge.

To achieve this vision our strategic goals are aligned to the DfE’s Trust Quality Descriptors:

To ensure that all schools provide high quality, inclusive education, striving for equity for all students.
To create a culture of continuous improvement in our schools, through accurate self-evaluation, challenge, support and appropriate action.
To foster a supportive working environment and create a high-performing culture for all staff that promotes collaboration, equality and diversity.
To ensure the effective and efficient use of resources for the benefit of all schools in the Trust and the wider system.
To ensure a culture of ethical leadership, including the seven principles of public life.