Creating Tomorrow
Our Vision & Values
Helping to create everyone’s tomorrow.
Our vision applies equally to our learners, teams and the wider community; empowering them to be ever more independent and autonomous in their lives.
Whether that looks like a young person being able to communicate their wants and needs effectively, navigating living independently or settling in the workplace, our vision is to enable our students to become confident, responsible and successful adults.
Community is core to what we do, and we work in partnership with businesses, charities and other partners to ensure our students have the skills and opportunities to showcase how successful they can be, not what they can’t do. Together, we empower everyone to shape a better tomorrow for our learners.
Our Values
Whilst each education setting within our trust has their own individual values, Creating Tomorrow has four core values, which act as a golden thread throughout everything we do.
Respect
We honour each other’s contributions and differences.
Inclusion
Everyone belongs and feels valued.
Dignity, fairness, and recognition of the intrinsic value of every school and college, with relationships at the heart.
Championing participation and equity, ensuring that our schools and college, their learners and teams are included, challenging discrimination and advocating for everyone.
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- Demonstrating fairness in decision-making and allocation of resources
- Listening actively to colleagues, their learners and families, and our communities
- Modelling professional courtesy in all interactions
- Challenging behaviour that is not aligned to our core values, promptly and constructively
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- Ensuring everyone’s voice is represented in decision-making, in doing so seeking the views of the diverse communities we support
- Identifying and addressing barriers to participation for learners and staff
- Establishing and ensuring equitable opportunities in recruitment, promotion, and professional development
- Championing learners with SEND in strategic forums and external partnerships
Community
We grow stronger together.
Empowerment
We enable each other to succeed and thrive.
Fostering collaboration, mutual responsibility, and shared success across the Trust; for the college and schools and their stakeholders, community, and the wider system; developing the bonds, ties, and networks that promote success.
Developing a shared responsibility for our Trust; enabling autonomy, growth, and contribution from each of our schools and college, their learners, families, staff, and leaders; working with individuals and organisations, whilst always holding our values, vision and mission in mind.
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- Promoting collaboration across the college and schools within the Trust
- Developing a culture that encourages and enables staff, learners, and families to participate in Trust-wide initiatives
- Identifying, championing, and sharing knowledge, practice, and resources to strengthen collective capacity
- Building partnerships with external agencies to enhance provision
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- Delegating responsibility appropriately, enabling those with the knowledge and skills to lead and innovate
- Walking alongside our teams to know them, and our organisations, deeply; to support, champion, challenge, and build on potential
- Recognising and celebrating individual and team successes
- Creating safe environments where staff and learners feel confident to take risks, reflect, challenge each other, and above all flourish
Our values in practice
Our trust values help to focus our efforts on securing the best possible outcomes for our learners, their families, and our team members.
We strive to provide the powerful knowledge and powerful skills to empower all stakeholders to be successful, confident and responsible, and we aim to do this through building an inclusive community to support the development of the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in a changing world.
We will only build an inclusive community by respecting every individual, creating the space for everyone to feel enabled, and confident, to bring their unique self.
To create a space for individuals to be successful, confident and respectful, safety needs to be at the heart of everything we do:
- Safety of self (emotional regulation)
- Safety with others (relationships)
- Safety for self (independence and autonomy)
And these all need to be underpinned by the ability to communicate effectively with those around you.
