Values & Ethos

Our core focus is teaching and learning and ensuring that the teaching in every classroom is as good as it possibly can be. Informed by research from the Education Endowment Fund, the trust’s teaching and learning model, OPTIC, creates a consistent learning framework to support teachers’ professional development. 

We want all children educated within our trust to be ‘well rounded’ and benefiting from a ‘whole education’. While we want our pupils to thrive academically, we also want them to develop character and personality which will ultimately make them highly employable active members of society. We will give our pupils diverse and distinct experiences through a range of curricular and co-curricular activities, which will help them to develop life-long interests.

We want our pupils to be healthy and understand how to stay healthy, so they are empowered to make the right choices. We want our pupils to be safe, happy and valued and to feel well supported with a sense of belonging. As a trust we will ensure that an extensive support structure is in place to protect the wellbeing of our most vulnerable young people.

We aim to ensure that our pupils develop the essential knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to make well informed decisions about their future. We want our young people to aim high and be aspirational and optimistic about their futures. The destinations of our young people are important; our trust aims to be an agent of social mobility, challenging the under-representation of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds at the most competitive universities and employment sectors.