Our development priorities for 2026–27 focus on continuing to strengthen attendance, attainment, and wellbeing across all our academies.

These priorities serve as a common thread running through both our Trust Strategic Goals and our Academy Development Plan (ADP) Objectives, ensuring alignment, coherence, and a clear direction of improvement for the coming academic year.

Trust Strategic Goals:

1. Ensure all students receive a high-quality and inclusive education in good and improving schools.
    
2. Grow our trust model to incorporate additional pathways and providers that strengthen education provisions for vulnerable children.
    
3. Deliver an outstanding careers curriculums leading to high quality destinations for all.
    
4. Provide effective executive leadership and governance, strategic direction, and a culture of accountability.
    
5. Deliver a curriculum for all that is broad and balanced, providing a wide range of cultural capital opportunities for students.
    
6. Provide outstanding wellbeing, enrichment and personal development programmes that support inclusive education for all and improves attendance and participation.
    
7. Maintain financial and operational sustainability, incorporating effective systems & processes that enable a 3-year programme of growth and capital investment.
    
8. Invest in our people; grow our own leaders and specialists valuing stakeholder wellbeing and managing workload.