Ashton-on-mersey School

As part of our protocols, we have a number of over-arching aims and a mission that pervades all of our schools and academies as follows: Our mission: We always put ‘pupils first’ We follow Local Authority admissions criteria We believe that local children should attend local schools and we are not selective We are fully inclusive and welcome children from vulnerable groups e.g FSM, SEND, LAC etc We continuously provide high quality professional development for all of our staff We follow the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions and National Joint Council conditions of service We work positively with trade unions and actively involve them in our decision making We play our full role in behaviour partnerships/hard to place protocols We always put collaboration before competition Aims: To work in the areas of greatest challenge To move all academies in the Trust to at least ‘Good’ using The Dean Trust school improvement offer from the centre (Teaching School) To sustain improvements by developing character, values and beliefs alongside sound systems and processes To ensure that all academies in our Trust adopt The Dean Trust model for success, high aspirations, high standards and continuous improvement throughout the organisation To concentrate our operation within a 50-mile radius of the Central Hub to ensure that coverage of the academy group and lead times are manageable and focused The Trust would have at the centre The Dean Trust Teaching School and high quality School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) To have high quality academy/school governance at the heart of the process To establish a strong centralised ‘back office’ support service for the academy group which is well resourced and funded to meet operational needs.