While we cannot know the future, the purpose of the CLF Strategy 2030 is to ensure the CLF is prepared and focused on meeting the challenges of this decade, while also providing hope and opportunities to our learners, our people and our communities; it is against the ideals of this narrative that work of the trust is monitored and its future success judged.

Steve Taylor, CEO - Cabot Learning Federation

Our Core Strategy

Equity Through Education is underpinned by three core strategies central to all trust activity. They guide decisions around development and improvement, while adhering to our commitment to create equity of opportunity, promote inclusion, remove disadvantage and reject discrimination.

  • Through the Lens of Disadvantage

    • Strategic emphasis on delivering excellence for disadvantaged learners even over other groups.
    • Benchmarking our impact through the lens of disadvantaged learners.
    • Developing best practice among CLF People to deliver for disadvantaged learners.
    • Working in tandem with others via CLF Partnerships to support our most disadvantaged families.
  • Investing in People

    • Sector-leading support, learning and professional development.
    • A welcoming, diverse and inclusive environment.
    • Resilient, empowered teams, with leaders at all levels.
    • Meaningful commitment to wellbeing and career progression.
    • High standards and ambitions for learners and their families.
  • Investing in Partnerships

    • Deep and collaborative connections throughout our communities.
    • Clear understanding of community issues and opportunities, and enthusiasm to engage.
    • Strong relationships with learners, parents, carers, volunteers and alumni.
    • Contribute to the educational and social landscape – locally, regionally and nationally.
    • Partner with other civic agencies to be a force for good in our local area

Our Sub-Strategies

Designed as enablers of our core pillars, these seven sub-strategies transcend teams and departments to resonate throughout the CLF. Driven by senior members of staff and reviewed annually, these ambitions will contribute to the sustainable development of the trust.

EDI
Wellbeing
Digital
Voice
Leadership
Operating at Scale
Environment
  • Unwavering commitment to advancing equal opportunities for all, eliminating discrimination, and upholding CLF values of equity, equality, diversity and inclusion.
  • Ensure the Trust remains a place where everyone feels they belong and supported to succeed.
  • Support the drive to diversify the CLF workforce to reflect the diverse communities we serve.
  • Grow EDI Networks which create safe spaces for children and adults to be themselves.
  • Provide resources to help staff and students positively and proactively manage their wellbeing.
  • Ensure support is signposted and easily available if people are struggling.
  • Further evolve a wellbeing curriculum which aligns with our goal of self-agency.
  • Play an active role in communities which supports equitable access to mental health services for all – particularly those experiencing disadvantage.
  • Enable all staff and pupils to safely and effectively work and learn anytime, anywhere.
  • Be future-seekers, equipped and ready to adopt technology which has ‘crossed the chasm’.
  • Give people the right tools to support their work, and train them to excel.
  • Embrace technology which supports partnership ambitions within the community and across clusters and wider education system.
  • Be a listening organisation which puts its people at the heart of strategic choices.
  • Nurture cohesive and coherent systems which gather and understand stakeholder views.
  • Maintain strong understanding of our trust and its impact through the eyes of our communities.
  • Be a model for CLF students, staff, families and communities to use to enact societal change
  • Utilise Trust experience to develop leadership to meet the challenges of this decade.
  • Raise standards by investing in capacity and expertise across the Trust.
  • Nurture a leadership culture which sustains a high-performing Trust which improves as it grows.
  • Empower leaders to take ownership of improvements which raise standards
  • Deploy the right resource at the right time to deliver maximum impact.
  • Establish efficient and effective systems which add value and support core priorities.
  • Build a scalable model which enables both standardised and empowered future growth.
  • Develop a new financial operating model, shaped by the above outputs, which delivers successful outcomes.
  • A shared commitment to reducing environmental impact which will see all schools hold Eco Schools Green Flag status.
  • An annual environmental conference where green champions can showcase positive action in schools.
  • Deep pupil engagement in environmental matters, supported by the CLF curriculum.
  • Provide data to help schools understand and reduce their impact through behaviour and technical change.

Strategy In Action

12
Jul

A career in maths could add up

 

The Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) Post 16 staff hosted a Girls in Maths event for students across Bristol and North Somerset.

The event was organised by the Advanced Maths Support Programme using STEM Ambassadors and CLF maths colleagues to encourage girls to enjoy working mathematically together, consider careers involving maths and options beyond GCSE maths.

Year 9 and 10 students from Bristol Brunel, Bristol Metropolitan, Hans Price, John Cabot, King’s Oak and Winterstoke Hundred Academies all came together in the Cabot Eye building to take part. Students found out about Florence Nightingale’s work on data, looked into infographics and worked on examples of maths from journalism and the medical profession.

In the final session, students talked to women in a range of careers to ask them about their role and how they use maths in their workplace.

One John Cabot student said: “Hearing about the women in jobs and their experiences and journeys to get there was interesting.”

Others said they enjoyed meeting other people from different schools and that the sessions had been really good and interactive.

Carrie Martin, Senior Network Leader of Mathematics, said: “This was a fabulous event for girls from six different CLF secondary academies to work together, see that mathematics is for them, and hear about the ways women use maths in careers such as engineering, finance and scientific research.

“Thank you to colleagues at John Cabot, Post 16 and Advanced Maths Support Programme for making this happen and the A level maths students who helped on the day – it has been great to hear how much the participants enjoyed the experience.”

06
Jul

Pupils re-enact a Roman invasion

As the marauding Roman army came into sight over the hill, their mass invasion gathering pace through the misty morning sunrise, every man, woman, and child ran for solace or sanctuary from the brutality which would lie ahead.

Luckily on this on occasion, it was only pupils from Bristol’s Wallscourt Farm Academy re-enacting a Roman invasion.

Sixty pupils from Year 5 got into the Roman spirit during a class visit to Caerleon Roman Fortress. Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths encompass the archaeological ruins and sites of the Legionary Fortress of Isca Augusta spread across the town of Caerleon, near the city of Newport, South Wales.

Pupils took part in a Roman boot camp, where a member of staff from the fortress took pupils through want it would be like to be a roman soldier, back in the day. They also took time to explain the other roles and jobs within the Roman army.

After being kitted out with shields and practice swords, pupils also learned war manoeuvres such as the Roman tortoise formation, a type of shield wall formation commonly used by the Roman legions during battles, particularly sieges. They also learned about the Roman Orbis – circle in Latin which saw the Roman legionaries form a circle formation. The Roman legionaries used their huge shields to form a shield wall of circular shape. The commanders, standard bearers, and archers were inside the circle. Pupils also toured and looked at the remains of a roman bath house.

The visit was designed to help pupils understand how the Romans were able to invade Britain so successfully and to understand the Roman legacy. When pupils returned to the classroom, they had answer two questions, what can we learn from the ancient Romans? And would you like to be an ancient Roman?

Sally Doughty and Isobel Arken, class teachers at Wallscourt Farm Academy, said: “The learners really enjoyed the day and being so active and hands on helped them to understand everything we have been learning about in the classroom.”

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