Our trust provides a unique blend of pastoral care and high-quality, inclusive education that allows every child and young person to reach their full potential regardless of their starting point.

Our trust works to a self-improving school-led system which improves processes, reduces unnecessary complexity and raises standards so all the schools within our trust are ‘Good’ or better.

Our trust seeks to achieve this through embedding our core values into the academic, personal and social development provision for all children and young people.

• Community: By working as one, we share expertise and achieve more for our schools.
• Resilience: We prioritise the wellbeing of students and staff, creating a culture of care, balance and resilience.
• Integrity: By showing honesty and truthfulness at all times, we stay true to ourselves.
• Respect: We value individuality and encourage every pupil and member of staff to bring their unique strengths and perspectives.
• Excellence: Committed to delivering excellence across all our schools.

Our trust welcomes new schools that share our values.

It is important to us that each school that joins the trust retains its individuality, ethos and values. It is also key that school leaders retain their own vision for their school in the context of their local community.

Our schools benefit from support and guidance from our trust, which enables them to continually improve and provide their pupils in their care with exemplary opportunities inside and outside the classroom.

Our schools retain their individual identity by working in partnership with our trust, whilst benefiting from joint and collaborative support.

Our governance and leadership are crucial to the trust’s success. The members and the trustees have a wide range of skills to oversee the trust. They provide confident and strategic leadership and create accountability and assurance for the educational and financial performance of the trust.

The members and trustees of the trust are experienced professionals with a wide range of expertise including:

• School improvement
• HR
• Financial management
• Industry
• Governance

The trust’s central support staff supply high-quality services including:

• Finance
• Audit
• ICT
• HR
• Marketing
• Governance
• Facilities management
• Compliance
• Procurement

The trust also has skilled leaders who can support trust schools in:

• Improvement in teaching and learning
• School improvement
• Behaviour management

Together we will share good practice from different contexts and in doing so raise standards and performance across all our schools and fundamentally improve the outcomes and experiences of children and young people.

Find out more by visiting our Strategy page to hear about our plans for the future.