Goals and Objectives
“Collaboration for Outstanding Achievement”
Our Promise is to deliver an outstanding education to every child who attends one of our Academies. To achieve this, every student will be taught by a well trained and well supported teacher, in an Academy that is led at every level by an inspirational leader, with parents & carers who are partners in their children’s education. As a result, we will create a federated learning community that through collaboration and partnership, delivers outstanding achievement for all.
Our Belief is that through collaboration we can accelerate our vision of every CLF Academy being judged to be at least “good” and on the path to “outstanding” by 2013-14. Students come first, and we judge ourselves on how successful we are in supporting our most vulnerable children as well as those who are gifted and talented. Many of our students are the first in their family to attend University, and by placing learning and leadership at the heart of the federation, we can create a culture of success that supports them as they move into adulthood and employment, whilst becoming aware of the role they can play in the communities in which they live.
Our Goal is to share the effective practice that is developed by staff in one Academy so that students in another can benefit from federation wide strategies. We embrace the uniqueness of our schools and the communities they serve. We want our Academies to have their own identities, but in the same way that families recognise the differences between “siblings” and allow personal growth to take place within the family unit, the federation is the sum of the quality of the parts. It is our collective belief, that our shared abilities to deliver outstanding educational outcomes will make a difference to the development and prosperity of the communities we serve.
How will we fulfil our Promise?
Objective 1-To support all of our Academies on their journey to sustained Outstanding performance through partnership, support and collaboration
- We will support the collaboration between our Academies to accelerate their improvement and embed their “outstanding” performance through a process of shared learning across our community.
- We will work together to identify, share and embed outstanding teaching and learning strategies that will have a transformational impact on classroom practice
- We will work with our sponsors and other partner organisations to ensure that the impact of the relationship is felt as widely as possible across the federation
- We will work alongside national and international partners to contribute to and learn from the best education systems in the world
Objective 2-To develop, support and train our staff so that they can be inspirational leaders, outstanding teachers, and excellent supporters of student learning
- We will create a talent management programme for staff that supports the development of inspirational leadership at every level of the federation
- We will deliver high quality professional development for all staff in order to develop a federated learning community
- We will ensure that there are unique enrichment, development, and support opportunities available to all students through our relationship with sponsors and other partners that makes the Cabot Learning Federation the first choice for students in our part of the city
- We will create opportunities for students from different Academies within the federation to learn together and develop as leaders becoming ambassadors for the federation in our community
- We will collaborate as a federation to design and deliver outstanding level 3 post 16 outcomes for all students.
- We will embed outstanding federation governance to support & challenge federation performance
Objective 3-To lead a sustainable future for the Cabot Learning Federation so that outstanding performance can be secured for future generations of students in our Academies
- We will provide outstanding support and development for all staff so that we recruit and retain a high calibre workforce in our academies to deliver outstanding teaching & learning
- We will enable our Academies to focus on their core business of teaching and learning by delivering a quality support service that represents value for money
- We will work together to engage and inform our communities about the outstanding educational experience across the federation in order to achieve our goal of having all of our Academies over-subscribed.
- We will take advantage of opportunities to share the effective practice of the federation with a wide range of educational partners, including our partner primary schools and other organisations interested in joining the federation
- We will develop new business opportunities and explore a wide range of commercial activity in order to sustain our Academies against any reduction in core funding that might reduce or limit educational opportunities