The Trust Vision

 ‘Our schools are child centred, inclusive and distinctive, delivering excellence in education, sharing best practice and building aspiration.’

The underpinning core principles are: Together we will:

• Consistently put children at the heart of decision making.

• Champion school individuality.

• Continually improve through innovative and research driven practice.

JMAT vision for excellent education

• Deliver a rich, contextualized and ambitious curriculum

• Beacons of high-quality inclusive practice

• Provide a safe, happy and purposeful environment

• Pupils are supported to achieve their aspirations and see themselves contributing positively to their local/global communities

• Develop a reflective, knowledgeable and highly skilled workforce

• Foster positive and productive partnerships

JMAT Curriculum Vision

Schools will build a curriculum that reflects JMAT vision. It needs to

• be ambitious

  • be as broad and balanced as NC

  • rich in experience

  • to be distinctive to each school

• be clearly sequenced and to show progression

  • clear identification of what children should know by when

  • learning builds on what has come before and prepares children for future learning

  • enable all children to achieve

• meet the needs of the local context

  • focused on the needs of the children within the school

  • reflect and extend the ethnic/cultural community it serves

  • embrace any significant elements of local history/geography

• reflect latest curriculum research

  • designed in line with latest curriculum guidance

  • written by practitioners with strong subject knowledge

  • pedagogy is research informed