For our leaders this means:

• Balancing responsibility for the whole with accountability for own school’s contribution

• Setting the highest expectations and knowing what excellence looks like

• Promoting research and evidence based practice

• Enabling collaboration and networking

• Leading change across more than one school

• Building on staff strengths and interests

• Prioritising disadvantaged, vulnerable and children with SEND

• Building partnerships and support services for parents

For our staff this means:

• Good teaching in every classroom, every lesson

• Implementing evidence based practice consistently

• Collaboration and sharing of resources to improve practice and reduce workload

• Peer to peer networks to share expertise

• The best training and support possible

• Building on pupils’ strengths and interests

• ‘Going the extra mile’ for pupils who need it most

• Building strong relationships with pupils and parents

For our trust central team this means:

• Recruiting, retaining and inducting the best staff

• Seeking out and signposting examples of excellence

• Having a people strategy that puts staff first

• Providing networking and collaboration capacity and resources 

• Removing ‘back office’ responsibilities and tasks from school leaders

• Ensuring safe, productive and welcoming learning environments

• Providing support services and networks that focus on consistency and equity

For our curriculum this means:

• Breadth that excites curiosity, develops deep interests and nurtures love, passion and creativity

• Skills and knowledge build over time and link across subjects in meaningful ways

• Experiences and opportunities enrich learning in and out of the classroom

• Adaptations meet the ever-changing needs of individuals

• Learning builds a sense of responsibility for self, others and the environment

• Critical thinking and ability to make reasoned, ethical and moral decisions for the benefit of all

• Balanced to support good mental, physical and academic outcomes