Strategic plan
Our Strategic plan
Everyone in the Mulberry Schools Trust family shares a commitment to ‘outstanding achievement for all’, and the education and enrichment we provide is designed to deliver the very best life chances for everyone, regardless of background, circumstance or need.
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The Mulberry Schools Trust believes that a great education is a life chance. It is the means by which young people can find their way in the world and into work, assuring their future security, happiness and wellbeing. Equality and diversity issues continue to present barriers for many students and this plays out in schools and system-wide, with social and economic disadvantage hindering educational achievement and widening disparity.
The Trust’s aim is to change this for every child. Our strategic plan guides us in delivering the change we seek.
The current strategic plan for the Mulberry Schools Trust draws on our learning and builds on our achievements since our foundation, and sets out our aspirations for the five years from September 2022 to August 2027. This is our second five-year strategic plan since our incorporation as a multi-academy trust in 2017.
Our aims for education
We aim to ensure outstanding achievement for all. We will support the very highest ambitions of the young people we serve because we believe this enables them to lead successful, happy and fulfilled lives, making a contribution to their own community and to wider British society. Mulberry students will be proud of their identity, which includes fundamental British values as well as a rich and diverse cultural and religious heritage From all around the world.
An evolving approach
We aim to deliver academic excellence and provide students with unrivalled experiences, rooted in our values and commitment to achieving the very best educational outcomes for all. We place the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion at the centre of every aspect of its work. We aim to remove any barriers to access, participation, progression, attainment and achievement. Between 2017 and 2022, we built a strong infrastructure for all our strategic priorities:- becoming a family of eight schools, including two primary schools, working collegiately to provide high quality education that deals effectively with socio-economic disadvantage.
- founding a lean and nimble central services team to ensure we fulfil our statutory obligations and strengthen our support for our schools.
- establishing a Teaching School Hub.
- setting up the Mulberry Schools Foundation charity, to support students, their families and our community.
- developing a knowledge and innovation hub to inform our entrepreneurial system-wide work across London.
- creating the Mulberry Changemakers programmes, a Trust-wide enrichment offer focused on STEM, the arts and global education.
Our strategic priorities
Our priorities help us focus on outstanding achievement for all – the quality of education and the business and governance infrastructure that supports it. Our strategy ensures that the educational aims, curriculum and learning experience for students, and the continual improvement of learning and teaching practice remain at the forefront of all we do. Diversity, equality and inclusion are woven throughout our work.
Our priorities for 2022–2027 are:
Excellent schools
Providing an excellent education in each school that belongs to the Trust, tailored to the needs of students, their families and the community.
Excellent finance, governance and resources
Ensuring the executive support for governance, finance, HR, ICT, estate, assets and other resources are used wisely and developed to enhance the education we provide across our family of schools.
Entrepreneurial schoolsOffering outstanding opportunities for students and their families through Mulberry Changemakers.
System ContributionContributing to the school system through school-to-school support and professional outreach.