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Central Region Schools Trust

Central Functions Support and Services Offer

We are proud of the support and services offer we provide for schools in our family to help them realise our mission of supporting social justice through exceptional schools. As we have grown, we have been able to develop a useful range of structures and services to best support the needs of our schools and which enable leaders to focus on leading their school communities.

Our support and services offer supports our strategic objectives (SO):

  • SO1 – Developing exceptional learners which is achieved through:
  • SO2 – Recruiting, developing and retaining expert professionals;
  • SO3 – Achieving excellence of operational infrastructure; operating efficient and effective systems; and maintaining and improving places; and
  • SO4 – Building empowered communities and developing lasting partnerships to support the development of social justice

Our aim is to deliver strong services from the centre that enable school leaders and staff to focus their energy where it will make the most difference to the lives of the pupils/students we serve and to realise benefits in terms of economies of scale. We strongly believe that each member of staff in a school is also indirectly responsible for every one of the 6300+ children in our care as a Trust. Where we have particular expertisethen each of us commits to sharing our resources, skills and knowledge across the Trust. In this way, all of our schools benefit from mutual support in service provision, curriculum delivery and school improvement.

There are many avenues of support for schools from the central teams in Central, which are outlined in this document. For staff, this is an opportunity to support and contribute widely to a collective expertise but also have the benefit of wider progression, opportunities and project work. In terms of resourcing, the Trust continuously evaluates how resources can be pooled and contribute to an effective solution that delivers synergy back to schools. Examples of this are Trust procured contracts or licences, but also staff for example, a specialist Head of HR. A shared Trust strategy that supports our vision and mission ensures all contribute to a collective aspiration.

Our school improvement model is very much based on our value of community. Resource is allocated where it is most needed to mitigate risk and generate excellence through co-design. Our improvement frameworks have been collaboratively designed and enable local autonomy of delivery within the boundaries laid out in our frameworks. As such, leaders of safeguarding, pupil premium, reading etc are able to support each other so that all can be the best they can be. Focussed staff development models including ‘let’s talk people’ that complements the range of Central Professional Learning, Research and Development (CPLR&D) programmes opportunities that run through all levels starting at a comprehensive ITT provision and leading all the way through subject leadership training and including National Professional Qualifications. All this is managed by Teach Central, our own ambitious CPLRD and ITT provision that maintains a reputation including great links with the higher edification sector. By sharing strategies that have been proven to work in one setting, all benefit from considering whether they may work in a different setting in the trust. Leaders new to rolecan expect high quality development as part of induction so that they become experienced at speed through the shared experience of the other designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) in the Trust. Through co-design, this sharing is not left to chance, but is very much an expectation of every one of us to deliver the best for the thousands of children in our care.

As a Trust founded by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), we have a lasting relationship with the RSA and are founder members of the RSA Education Network. This relationship gives access to a multi-national fellowship and an internationally recognised organisation aligned to our own mission and values. Our mission and values are forged from the relationship we have benefited from through our original founders, with the vast majority of our Trustees being fellows of the RSA. We continue to recruit fellows to our governance committees which supports us in holding true to our values.

One of the strongest benefits of our ongoing partnership with the RSA, and the collaborative programmes for pupils/students, such as RSA leadership and pupil/student agency programmes, and a whole host of cross school and trust-wide activities, competitions and events. These bring a richness to the experience of our pupils/students, developing their knowledge, attributes of character and skills through amazing experiences, which of course is why we have come together as schools, so that we can ensure these are as good as we can possibly make them.

 

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Arrow Valley First School CRST,
Colts Lane,
Redditch,
Worcestershire,
B98 0LH

01527 528 111

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