Our development priorities for 2025–26 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.

Academy Development Objectives:

Social Mobility

Equality of opportunity for our young people to aspire and achieve
So1 – All students achieve their aspirational target grades
So2 – Key TAG cohorts (Most Able, DA, SEND, Boys, PA) close gaps in line with national performance
So3 – All students access quality first teaching in all key stages
So4 – Sustained improvement in reading ages so students can access age appropriate material
So5 – Increase percentage of students entering post 16 education or employment, ensuring access to impartial careers guidance

Moral Purpose

Resilient active decision makers
M1 – All stakeholders become experts in our students, maintaining high expectations for all
M2 – Appropriate pathways that support inclusive education and eradicate fixed term exclusions
M3 – Effective safeguarding that promotes trauma perceptive practice, the recognition of risk and mental health support
M4 – Stakeholders demonstrate passion and commitment to our school ethos through high levels of attendance
M5 – Student leadership programmes that impact on the academy and wider community

Spiritual Awareness

Reflective citizens and curious learners
Sp1 – All stakeholders have a voice that is heard
Sp2 – Curriculum encourages regular reflection on beliefs and values
Sp3 – A gold standard Rights Respecting Academy
Sp4 – Students take responsibility for their own Learning Journey
Sp5 – British values are instilled

Cultural Capital

Equity of opportunity for our young people to aspire and achieve

C1 – An ambitious curriculum is delivered to all that is broad and balanced, providing a wide range of cultural experiences for students
C2 – All students access non-assessed enrichment opportunities that aim to combat negative external influences and foster a passion for learning
C3 – Active parental and community programmes that deliver Leading Parent Partnership principles
C4 – Rewards programme celebrates success for all
C5 – Invest in our people; grow our own leaders and specialists valuing expertise over experience