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.

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

29
Mar

CLF to open new special school in North Somerset

Cabot Learning Federation multi academy trust is delighted to announce it will be opening a new special school for children and young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.

Initially based in temporary accommodation in Pound Lane, Nailsea, North Somerset, the new free school is on track to open in state-of-the art purpose-built facilities in Churchill, North Somerset, in September 2024.

The school will have places for up to 65 children and young people in year 1 to year 11, with an initial expected intake of approximately 20 Key Stage 3 pupils in September 2022.

Over the coming weeks, CLF leaders will be working closely with North Somerset Council and the Department for Education to finalise the next steps of the project. A planning application is expected to be submitted in summer 2022 for the Churchill site.

CLF Chief Executive Steve Taylor said: “We’re delighted to have this opportunity to extend our range of provision in North Somerset. This exciting new special school will join Hans Price, Broadoak, Haywood Village, Herons’ Moor, Winterstoke Hundred, and Uphill Village Academies in our local family of schools. It will add to and draw support from those schools, and our broader provision across the region. At the same time as registering our enthusiasm, we recognise how important this new school will be in contributing to the ambitions of the local area to improve and extend its special needs provision. We are looking forward to working in strong partnership with North Somerset Council and other colleagues and organisations across the county.”

Cllr Catherine Gibbons, Executive Member for Children’s Services and Lifelong Learning for North Somerset Council, said: “Providing a positive and appropriate learning environment for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs is vital to their wellbeing, education and development, so I am really pleased that this project is progressing. We are committed to ensuring our children and young people get the best start in life, and this new school will support our ambition.”

The new school for children with SEMH needs in Churchill, North Somerset, aims to level up educational outcomes and keep children engaged in learning through specialist facilities and learning programmes.

Learn@ multi academy trust was due to operate the new school but has withdrawn due to other commitments in the region, including the opening of its free school in Gloucestershire.

CLF will launch a six-week consultation exercise in April to gather feedback on the educational offer from potential parents and carers, education sector employees, local charities and the wider community. If you would like to register to receive information about that consultation when it is launched, please send your name, email address and why you are interested in the consultation (are you a parent or carer, do you work in the education sector or for a local charity or do you live in the wider community) to info@clf.uk   with Special School Consultation in the subject line.

Thirty five new special free schools are planned to open across England from September 2022.  The free school programme aims to ensure that children with special educational needs reach their potential, find employment, and lead happy and fulfilled lives.

 

 

09
Mar

CLF Academies in this month’s Voices Newspapers

A range of stories from CLF academies have featured in this month’s Voices newspapers, Frome Vale Academy made a front page! Please see below.

The Cabot Learning Federation is delighted and extremely proud to announce that following a Section 5 inspection by the education watchdog Ofsted in January, Frome Vale Academy has been judged to be an ‘outstanding’ school in all areas. This represents a jump from its previous judgement of requires improvement, an absolutely amazing achievement having also gone through the pandemic.

 

To read the full story click here  https://clf.uk/news/frome-vale-academy-officially-outstanding-ofsted/

A group of young historians from Summerhill Academy have enjoyed their first school trip since the start of the pandemic to the Roman Baths.

Famed for its piping hot springs, the group of 63 Year 5 pupils toured the magnificent 2,000-year-old Roman Baths complex in the City of Bath, walked on the original Roman pavements and viewed the ruins of the Temple of Sulis Minerva.

Begbrook Primary Academy pupils took part in a Basketball competition and triumphed, despite only having played together for a few weeks. The tournament was staged at Bristol Metropolitan Academy.

Pupils at Begbrook Primary Academy had the chance to handle many animals during a visit from Wild Science, frogs snakes and a bearded dragon to name but a few!

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