Commitment to Improvement and Excellence
The Trust makes a commitment to:
- High Expectations
- A strong, knowledge-based curriculum across all key stages
- Carefully focused teaching, rigorous tracking, and personalised intervention
- Qualified staff that are motivated, well-trained, and using cutting-edge research
- A strong, wider curriculum offer across all academies/schools
The Trust academies / schools commits to their local community:
- Schools of premier standard, capable of meeting pupil aspirations
- Sponsored schools to make rapid improvements
- Pupils recruited from local neighbourhoods to make social mobility a reality and not an aspiration
- Empowerment of every one of the local communities our schools serve
- School buildings and facilities at the centre of local neighbourhoods where they can help create community and social cohesion
The Trust makes a commitment to every academy / school that chooses to become a VALT academy:
- A strong and vibrant VALT community
- A vision and commitment for excellence to enable all children to achieve their very best.
- A skilled Central Team that works alongside schools to deliver educational excellence, operational excellent and a strong VALT community
- High quality school improvement support
- A collaborative approach to policy and systems development
- An investment in staff wellbeing and continuous development