Our Employee Values
Our Employee Engagement Plan is a commitment to a new way of working with each other. Through focus groups, workshops and rounds of iterations and refinements, we have co- created a new set of employee values with our team that we are so proud to stand behind.
Our employee values capture the essence of our approach and our philosophy. These will be shared during induction, showcased on school sites and used to help us to recruit and develop values-aligned people, who support both our mission and our way of achieving it.
Ambition without Limit
Setting high standards, and achieving them, is central to everything we do. This applies to our teaching and learning practices, our approach to shared school services, and the behaviour of the young people in our family of schools. Crucially, it applies to their outcomes. We are obsessive about helping all of our pupils achieve to the best of their ability because we know this will open doors for them.
We break down Barriers
Wherever there is a barrier preventing a child’s progress, we seek to remove it and take individual responsibility to do so with urgency. Done well, we believe this is one of the most fulfilling aspects of working here. We know that moving swiftly and speaking honestly can sometimes feel challenging. If you are new to our family, this directness can be disconcerting, but it is a manifestation of our commitment to the young people we work with.
We turn our best into normal
We know that the best ideas come from expert practitioners in schools. So, when we see that something works – be it a lesson plan, financial procedure or behaviour practice – we record it and implement it for the benefit of our pupils and colleagues. We stop doing things that do not have a positive impact on pupils. We go out of our way to share these insights, and to find ways to deliver training and support so that our colleagues can learn from them, evolve them and build them into systems.
Every interaction counts
We have always said that when we see litter, we pick it up. It isn’t really about the litter, it is about our belief that the adults in our schools should always be acting as positive role models. For us, small everyday interactions are crucial for this to be successful. So; we dress smartly, we queue politely, we open doors, we communicate clearly, we exude positivity.
We are a Family
We know that our strength is best shown by how we support those within our family that are struggling. When an individual, a department, or a school faces a challenge or a setback we rally around. We are not satisfied if our own students, school, department or subject is doing well, but there are difficulties elsewhere in our family. This is rewarding but can be tiring: We sometimes need to cover for each other or spend time on the road supporting other schools.