Trust Strategic Plan
Our Board has agreed on 4 key strategic pillars which will steer our growth and development over the next 3 years. Each strategic pillar provides 4 strategic intentions, with a delivery plan and the associated risks associated, along with their mitigations.
Strategic Pillar 1 – Experience Development
- To provide the best quality of education so that our staff make a real difference and students, including higher attainers, SEND and/or disadvantaged cohorts, are all on a pathway to succeed with the skills needed for the 21st century global economy.
- To implement a professional development programme around the use of emerging technologies pedagogy that provides our staff with the right skills to raise standards further, deliver quality first teaching, and disseminate best practice.
- To offer a wider rich and appropriate oracy, reading and personal development curriculum by sharing high-quality resources and expertise and, to ensure a clear progress in knowledge and skills towards agreed end points.
- To implement a rigorous and robust programme of quality assurance that helps to support staff, build expertise, trust growth opportunities and capacity, and raise standards to deliver positive outcomes for students.
Strategic Pillar 2 – People Development
- To develop future leaders, principals and chairs of both academy and trust committees ensuring effective succession planning for schools and the Trust.
- To attract, develop and retain talented, innovative and kind staff to posts in our schools and the central team, harnessing the benefits of cross-trust working to support professional development.
- To ensure emerging and established technologies are harnessed allowing schools and the Trust to run support services efficiently and effectively.
- To ensure Trustees and Governors are well-informed, act in the best interests of the Trust and demonstrate vision, have clarity of roles and responsibilities, develop succession plans whilst achieving the greatest value to schools and the Trust.
Strategic Pillar 3 – Infrastructure Development
- To continue developing a transparent and prudent integrated financial curriculum planning model, supported by Trust KPIs, that prioritises educational outcomes while ensuring long-term financial sustainability and resilience.
- To continue developing opportunities for income generation , cost efficiencies and resource optimisation to maximise the impact of available funding on learning and estate development.
- To develop an estates strategy plan that identifies and prioritises necessary campus and future school estate improvements through successful and regular funding streams.
- To continue developing marketing strategies that drive admissions and ensure the continued growth and vitality of our schools, as well as enhancing the visibility, brand and reputation of the Trust and engagement with its community partners.
Strategic Pillar 4 – Growth Development
- To foster relationships with local schools, not solely the immediate local authority, engendering a sense of mutual partnership and betterment with the option of joining the Trust.
- To engage with opportunities to sponsor existing schools or deliver new schools to meet the needs of our local geographical area.
- To develop further school-to-school support capacity in collaboration with local authorities and the Department for Education and its associated partners.
- To explore the possible pathways for economies of scale with similar size multi-academy trusts.