We are experts in SEND education. Our leadership teams have decades of experience of the sector between them and really understand the challenges involved in delivering education and preparing students for adulthood in the special needs sector.

As a member of our trust family, you will benefit from the continued support of our highly experienced shared services team, as well as the outstanding practitioners from across our schools and college.

Our fantastic, dedicated staff across our different provisions teach all ages: from early years to 25-year-old adults; and across the wide range of SEND. The expertise of our combined staff knowledge and sharing it across the trust is fundamental to our success.

It’s hard to come up with a SEND challenge we haven’t faced before within our organisation and by joining Creating Tomorrow, it enables you to have that expertise to hand on a daily basis to help you deliver the very best outcomes for your students. Moreover, we welcome the opportunity to learn from your teams’ best practices too, driving our continuous improvement as a trust.

Our approach to school and college improvement has been shaped by our Partnership Ways of Working and strong collaboration, so that the skills and talents that exist within the partnership and wider specialist services can benefit all our students.

Partnership Ways of Working changes the climate from operating as institutional educators of one setting, to educational experts in a wider context, implying a much broader sphere of responsibility, which encompasses educational wellbeing more widely across multiple education provisions. This strategy offers a tiered approach to improvement through continuous professional development for all. 

Learning from, with, and on behalf of others.

Improvement packages

There are two proactive principle elements to our strategy for improvement.  Every setting receives our Core Improvement Package.
 

Trust Early Intervention Package

Diagnosing the improvement need/s using five fundamental procedural processes.
Sustainable Improvement in Multi-school Groups (DfE, 2018)

Trust Core Improvement Package

Embedding deliberate and intentional knowledge building that results in transformational change in practice.
CST Knowledge Building Whitepaper (cstuk.org.uk).

Sustainable Improvement

Our sustainable improvement is informed by evidence-based models that are driven by Hargreaves self-sustaining improvement systems, adapting those where appropriate to our specialist schools. The trust is a member of The Confederation of Schools Trust (CST). This ensures we keep pace with the latest research and evidence to inform our schools'/college improvement.

“If we create a culture where we all believe that we need to improve, not because we are not good enough, but because we can be even better, there is no limit to what we can achieve.”

Dylan William

The Best Practice Team are formed by our area and subject leads from across the trust, promoting our educational vision. They are champions of their specialist areas of expertise and are responsible for networking and leading their group across all schools and college to collaboratively develop practice.

They are the experts that model and set the highest expectations of what excellent learning looks like through our trust’s Learning Model- Principles Practice and Pedagogy.

Our expert teams currently cover:

• Safeguarding
• Relationships & behaviour
• Personal development
• Careers & destinations
• English
• Maths
• STEAM
• Communication
• Preparation for adulthood
• SEND nurture therapies

Trust Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance reflects our commitment to inclusion, respect, community and empowerment.

The overarching goal is improvement in all of our settings: through partnership by strengthening staff expertise and confidence, celebrating and sharing excellent practice and supporting every school on its unique improvement journey. We carefully consider the pace of growth in each setting to ensure excellent sustainable standards are achieved for our learners.

Through our Improvement teams, support and challenge offers a balance of development and improvement opportunities. This also includes opportunities for our partnership programs and our staff development directory.

Our quality assurance model is a continuous cycle over three key periods, involving strategic reviews and learning visits. We adopt our RAISE approach to Reflect, Align, Improve, Support and Empower.