Flourishing in Partnership  

At Lighthouse Schools Partnership we are dedicated to the flourishing of our pupils, our colleagues and our communities. We believe that education transforms lives for the better and forever so our goal is for every teacher in every classroom to be as good as they can be in what they teach and how they teach.  

To achieve this, we collaborate closely to mobilise every teacher and every leader across our Trust with the best evidence from research since there is no improvement for pupils without improvement in teaching, and no improvement in teaching without the best professional development for teachers. For this to happen effectively we share principles and a common understanding of:

• an excellent curriculum – building and delivering a progressive, coherent, spiral curriculum for all of our pupils ensures that everyone receives the knowledge and skills they need to thrive, develop character and can contribute to shaping the future.

• excellent pedagogy – the choices we make about how we deliver learning are based on what is proven to work for all pupils because we know that great teaching leads to great learning. We aim for full participation and engagement from all of our pupils all of the time and have a common understanding of the strategies that we can use to ensure that this happens.

• excellent inclusion – we are highly ambitious for all of our pupils especially those who are disadvantaged,  vulnerable or have special educational needs. We are working towards a point when the impact of disadvantage is erased by the quality of our provision. Our schools align to the 6 Principles of Nurture as a means to improving attendance, behaviour and attainment ensuring that every child is able to learn. The lives of children and their families are vital to this goal. For this reason we collaborate closely as a Trust to create strong systems and processes that allow us to learn from and share best practice at scale.

Our education strategy for the primary phase describes how we work as a Trust to deliver on each of these shared principles and to deliver on our ambition to deliver the highest possible academic outcomes, defined by the targets below, for our pupils.