Great Schools Trust is a values-led Multi Academy Trust. It places considerable emphasis on ensuring an ethical ethos and a strong values system permeates everything it does. Each of its schools prioritises character education, which is taught through a structured programme of character and leadership development.
Each school holds several core beliefs that are central to its practice, including that all students must learn to be resilient on their educational journey to achieve these ambitions; and they must become confident contributing citizens able to develop a passion for both learning and character development.
Our vision is to create a mutually supportive group of outstanding schools that allow every student to go to university or pursue the career of their choice. We exist to bring aspiration and increased social value to the communities that we serve.
To support academies in achieving our vision our Faculty for Education offers specialist expertise in several core areas: education; quality systems; people; finance; marketing; ICT; governance; capital programmes and estates; and data insight, thereby educating, equipping and empowering our community of schools to deliver excellence, driving continual improvement and system change.
We believe in recruiting talented like-minded people and developing them to fulfil their full career ambitions within our academies. Our ambition is for all new staff to become one of our future leaders, to continue to shape the future of all our young people ensuring they become independent learners, have strong characters, gain intellectual habits and are successful citizens.
Great Schools Trust has 5 King’s Leadership Academies: King's Bolton, King's Hawthornes, King's Liverpool, King's Warrington and the Aspire Centre, an alternative provision unit in Liverpool. King’s Warrington became the National School of Character in 2015 and became a lead academy for the Behaviour Hub programme in 2022.