Our vision – what we want to achieve

At Odyssey Collaborative Trust our Vision is that:

Our Children Thrive

Our Colleagues Thrive

Our Community Thrives

For our children to thrive we will:

Make sure children are at the heart of what we do.  Schools will be a safe, caring and happy place for all to learn and achieve excellent outcomes.

For our colleagues to thrive we will:

Recruit and retain the best staff by being a great place to work and by providing our colleagues with support to grow and develop their careers in a professional and inclusive environment.

For our community to thrive we will:

We will be at the heart of the Derby community, working with other civic partners to respond to needs of the city.

Being part of the Trust will enable all schools to consistently achieve the above.  We are one organisation and we will support each other to ensure each school provides a high-quality education for all.

Our culture – how we will achieve our vision

We will:

Have a well-defined and effective strategy to challenge and improve the quality of education in schools; incorporating consistent delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum that revisits and builds upon prior learning; allows all pupils to unlock their potential.

Utilise an effective and supportive approach to school improvement to ensure that best practice is deployed, and any quality issues are addressed urgently as a matter of course.

Identify and develop expertise across the Trust and give opportunities for all staff which allow their skills and knowledge to be retained and developed.   Provide a career pathway of opportunities which help staff to reach their potential.

Develop a package of benefits which makes it possible to retain and recruit the best staff and be responsive to the needs of our colleagues.

Explore creative solutions to the challenges facing our schools and our communities, including developing or collaborating with specialist provision.

Our culture will include: 

• An empowered wider Trust leadership team comprising headteachers together with central team leaders to own the process of improvement and change across the trust.
• Every school “succeeding together”. From a group of individual schools to a “one Trust” family ethos, where success for the trust is based on success of all schools together.
• Being open to change.
• Equity for children and adults across the Trust.
• Effective governance at every level working towards the Trust’s vision within a clear and well-understood structure.