We seek excellence in all that we do, and we have the greatest expectations of everyone to achieve highly. Our culture helps us achieve this excellence, for our children and young people, for our staff, for the communities we serve and for the broader educational system.

We seek to grow, ensuring our pupils and staff benefit from our best collective and collaborative practice. At the same time, we want our schools to retain the agility to innovate, ensuring they can respond nimbly to their communities' needs. Our schools have the freedom to explore and learn from different practices. We know that authentic leadership and personal accountability are founded on ownership and self-direction.

Our Trust leaders work collaboratively to identify shared and individual strengths, and areas for school improvement. Our Trust development plan focuses on supporting each school to excel and amplify its strengths within our Trust and beyond.

Our teachers work together across the Trust on projects and joint learning. We are developing wider opportunities for our children and young people to learn alongside each other as part of the wider Trust family. We are also building relationships with community groups and organisations to ensure all our pupils benefit from growing up in the culturally rich communities of South London.

Our broader network of organisations, including the London South Teaching School Hub, our Challenge Partners Hub and the Charles Dickens Research School, enables us to work constructively with other schools across South London and further afield. We are particularly interested in supporting the professional development of teachers, dissemination of evidence-informed practice and the leadership of mentally healthy schools, nurseries and colleges.