Our Approach

As a Trust, our priority is to establish a school environment where our academies flourish. We are stronger together and being part of larger group is essential to our success.

We set a strong precedent on recognising that our academies have distinctive differences that sets them apart, while providing the opportunity to share, develop and work collaboratively, to determine best practice.

With the goal of facilitating others’ work, the Pope Francis CMAT Team offers our academies experience in finance, estates, business operations, strategic leadership, SEND, HR, legal, PR and marketing and IT.

Our Central Team liaises with our academies leadership teams to maintain that support is targeted to each of our academy’s needs.

Always guided by our mission “Unity happens when we walk together” , we work as one community – educating hearts and minds and serving the common good so that no one is left behind.

Supporting our schools

Our Trust is committed to supporting schools to provide the best possible Catholic education which:

Enables pupils to grow in their love of God and their neighbour in an environment rich in worship
Recognises the uniqueness of each child by being highly inclusive
Focuses on every child becoming a reader and confident with numbers
Secures high attendance to enable all to flourish and secure high outcomes
Has a well-qualified and motivated team of adults in which the unique contribution of each is recognised and that staff are developed professionally and empowered
Is outward facing and a place where the joy of the Gospel is lived out.
Enables children to learn in safe, clean, warm and well-maintained buildings with modern ICT facilities
Is in a financially robust position that is monitored carefully, thus ensuring limited resources have the highest impact for all

We have a distinct approach in trying to work towards this goal. We understand that each school is unique and has its own distinctive community to serve with its own priorities. At the same time, we are a Trust and being part of a Trust family will help bring about school improvement in so many different ways but especially by collaboration.

Our model is not a transactional one or one of entitlement but one of accompaniment, support and challenge within a family of schools.