Values and Ethos

Our Trust-Wide Vision

To ensure that the quality of education for children and young people with complex learning difficulties and disabilities in all our provisions is of the highest standard, using evidence-based research to drive school improvement so that we are at the forefront of progressive practice
To celebrate diversity and developmental difference by providing appropriate and relevant specialist curriculums that will meet the broad range of needs and aptitudes presented by the students in each provision
To have regard to the health, safety and wellbeing of staff and students by providing safe, secure, stimulating and therapeutic environments for learning
To be an outward looking organisation that maintains positive relationships across its professional networks; being committed to high quality governance and leadership in all settings to ensure effective financial performance
To remain an independent specialist, SEND MAT, small enough to maintain a personalised service to the community of its academies and subsidiary provisions

Learning For Life

We prepare students to leave school as confident young people who are as self-reliant as their strengths and abilities will allow them to be. We believe passionately that all students should have the right to access learning at a level and in a setting appropriate to their needs that will enable them to enjoy and achieve. If a student cannot learn the way we teach, we should teach the way they learn. We hope through our practice to:

Promote positive social behaviour and communication through our commitment to the SCERTS model
Develop enjoyment and commitment to learning and achieving
Build on strengths and interests, develop confidence and the capacity to learn both independently and collaboratively
Equip students with literacy, numeracy and communication skills, and the ability to enquire and make connections across different areas of learning
Develop students’ sense of identity through knowledge and understanding of our shared and diverse spiritual, moral, social and cultural heritage
Promote physical development and encourage the pursuit of safe and healthy lifestyles
Enable students with physical disabilities to understand and manage their condition to enjoy the best possible quality of life
Develop students’ capacity to build positive relationships based on mutual respect for themselves and others
Enable students to respond positively and to cope with adversity
Develop awareness, understanding and respect for the environment
Promote the fundamental values of British society
Encourage and stimulate the best possible progress and attainment.