Excellence is one of our five Trust values. We strive for excellence in all we do and are committed to securing bright futures for all our children and young people. We reflect frequently on our strengths and improvement areas and are honest and thoughtful in our self-review. We quality assure our practice with rigour and where we feel improvements can be made, we deploy our school support and improvement consultants to work with our MAT schools and external schools through a coaching model to secure excellence.
Our coaching model is used because we know that schools have the knowledge, expertise, and skills within them that can be harnessed to build on potential and drive towards excellence. Our school support and improvement consultants work smartly with teachers and leaders to investigate areas for improvement before providing support that focuses on the crux of the issue.
Our approach is rooted in collaboration, teamwork, mutual respect, and a desire for collective excellence. It is at the heart of our vision of ‘achievement through caring’ and is achieved through our investment in staff welfare which provides the following benefits:
We focus on the importance of staff wellbeing, as well as children and young people’s wellbeing – it’s about our physical, mental, and emotional health as a whole. The emphasis is on achieving balance – when we feel good across these areas, our wellbeing is good.
Good wellbeing is achieved when there is a balance between the resources you have available and the challenges you face. When your challenges outweigh the resources you have, things can become off balance.
Benefits for teachers
Wellbeing should be at the core of all schools and Multi Academy Trusts. We fully recognise that we are beginning the cultural change across the Trust to ensure our staff team can flourish. We believe:
