Our Strategic Priorities
To provide a rounded education for all of our students
- By ensuring our academies offer a well balanced curriculum with subjects which best match our students’ abilities and aspirations
- By personalising programmes for our students which help them to enjoy and achieve
- By supporting their learning development – teaching them how to learn
- By focussing on improving outcomes in examinations
- By giving our students access to and experience of further education and employability – raising their aspirations, expectations and future economic and social wellbeing
- By helping our students to manage their health and safety, and develop positive approaches to wellbeing
- By giving our students a voice in the development and activity of our academies through student working groups and a strategic body which reports to Governors.
To make our academies a part of the community they serve
- By involving our academies in activities which contribute to the cohesion of the communities we serve
- By ensuring our academies work together and with other academies and education providers
- By involving our students as active citizens and volunteers within those communities and developing in them a sense of social responsibility
To provide good teaching and pastoral support through well qualified and motivated staff
- By investing in accredited training for our staff, including continued learning at University to Masters level
- By ensuring that we invest in staff well-being and allow staff to focus on their jobs by removing bureaucratic burden
- By checking on staff morale and supporting recognition of their efforts
- By providing well planned staff development which matches our development priorities