Our Approach

The Trust seeks to bring together the best that the independent sector offers and the state education sector provides.

While our academies are very different in terms of their identities and communities, the aspirations and ambitions that unite the network are clearly defined and set.

In addition, there are common features in all of our academies, built on our Sponsor’s experiences and the traditional strengths of the independent system.

These common features include:

• Academic excellence;
• A house structure to foster a culture of mutual respect and teamwork;
• An extensive co-curricular offering to broaden opportunity and experience for all students within their academy;
• An early and relentless focus on literacy;
• A uniform code to nurture a sense of identity and responsibility with a high expectation around personal appearance;
• A Governing Body and a Principal who exercise their local autonomy within this framework; and
• A commitment to excellence and a culture of no excuses.

Through our strong determination to offer the very best for our students, results are strengthening and students’ life chances are improving. More students are not only getting stronger results, but using these results to access opportunities that they may not have traditionally considered open to them.