Schools within the Children’s Endeavour Trust (CET) pride themselves on being at the heart of their communities, putting excellence in teaching and learning at the heart of what they do. CET chooses not to mandate a particular curriculum approach across all of our schools as we are mindful that the individual context of each school should be maintained. Instead, we are united by our focus on delivering the very best learning experiences for all of our children through our inclusive practice. Therefore, we have developed a set of guiding principles with the aim that all our school staff will use them in their exchanges with children, families, colleagues and Trustees.

At CET we commit to the following principles:

Curriculum Principles

- To deliver an inspiring, enriching curriculum that challenges all children, extends and broadens their learning experiences and goes beyond the National Curriculum.
- To ensure that all children have the knowledge, cultural capital and rich vocabulary they require to progress to the next stage of their education and to succeed in Modern Britain.
- To ensure the curriculum design is research-led, well-planned, cohesive and effectively implemented so that learning sequences are built sequentially.
- To ensure that the learning environment focuses on the children’s needs (reduce cognitive load) and supports the delivery of the whole curriculum.

Teaching Principles

- Provide effective conditions for learning behaviours to develop and children to flourish by using quality purposeful dialogue and vocabulary in all interactions.
- To ensure all of our children understand the key knowledge they are learning and the skills they are developing in order to know more, remember more and do more.
- To provide clear sequences of learning that build on prior knowledge, give children an opportunity to reflect, value their mistakes and celebrate their work by embedding ‘Rosenshine’s Ten Principles of Instruction’.
- To use formative assessment effectively to secure excellent pupil progress.
- To meet the needs of all children and enable their independence.

Leadership Principles

- To evaluate the strengths and areas for development in order to improve our schools.
- To write clear, concise improvement plans and effectively implement them.
- To share developments and successes across all our schools through effective collaboration and ensure all staff development is tailored to the needs of our schools, focused on inspiring, empowering and improving at every level.
- Be rights-respecting schools and advocate inclusion.
- To champion the vision of CET in the community, working with other leaders, schools and agencies and look for opportunities for growth.

Safeguarding Principles

- Empower all staff to support children in staying safe through a caring environment and a well-planned curriculum that addresses the issues our children may face.
- Maintain an attitude of ‘it could happen here’ and take proactive steps to stop harm.
- To know how to spot concerns and act in a timely and proportionate way to protect all children.
- To work in partnership with other organisations and the local community to keep children and families safe
- Everyone is accountable and has responsibility for the safeguarding and welfare of children so it is essential training is up to date.

We will strive to improve our delivery of these principles by continuously working together to review our practice so our vision is accomplished.