Our Trust

The CLIC Trust is a growing family of primary schools in Greater Manchester (currently within Manchester and Tameside Local Authorities). Absolutely central to the CLIC Trust are collaboration, evidence-informed practice and strategy being shaped by the family of schools.

We are wholly committed to Changing Lives In Collaboration, in line with our vision: Together We Make The Difference. We learn with each other, we learn from each other and we learn on behalf of each other, as a very close learning community. There are many rich and varied opportunities for staff and pupils to collaborate to continually improve the quality of education and provision within our schools. For more information about collaboration, please see Trust Offer section.

As a Trust, we are committed to embedding evidence-informed practice, ensuring that strategic decisions and implementation, as well as staff professional development, are based on robust evidence and research. We have a strong progressive evidence leadership pathway within our CPD offer to enable all of our teaching staff to become evidence leaders of education. This has shaped our collaborative approaches to curriculum design, with the creation of the CLIC Curriculum Active Ingredients (a set of evidence-informed principles which each school applied to designing a curriculum bespoke to their pupils and context). Our Teaching Steering Group have unpicked evidence and research relating to the highest impact teaching approaches have also used this to author the CLIC Teaching Framework, which codifies teaching and underpins our CPD offer. More information about our Curriculum Active Ingredients and Teaching Framework can be found in our pedagogical approaches section.

The Trust is the family of schools and therefore it is very important to us that the schools’ stakeholders shape the direction of the strategy. We pro-actively engage with our staff, pupils, parents, families, communities and local governors to gather their voice and use this to update our Core Offer of support and provision of collaborative activities.

Strategy

We have established a clear five-year strategy and aims for the CLIC Trust, providing the focus for our development from 2020-2025.  Our strategic priorities relate to: curriculum and quality of education; leadership and management; governance; growth; and resources and risk.  A summary of our aims are as follows, with a link to the full strategy document and current implementation plans available below:

STRATEGY AIMS GRAPHIC 

 Since setting the Trust's five-year strategy in 2020, we have added an additional areas of focus; environmental sustainability and climate change.  We have agreed the following aims:

• A culture where environmental sustainability is a natural consideration in every decision around purchasing, resourcing, operations, estates and investments.
• A workforce that models climate concern and action, including teaching staff who understand their role in creating environmentally responsible citizens of tomorrow.  We attract and retain people because of our commitments on sustainability.
• Children move on to the next phase of their education with an ingrained understanding of the climate change crisis and the foundation of skills, knowledge and attitude to tackle this.
• School estates which monitor their own carbon footprints and take steps to minimise or offset wherever viable.  This includes utilising renewable sources of energy, facilitating zero carbon travel to school/work and maximising opportunities to improve biodiversity in the surrounding natural environments.
• All work on improving the condition of the school buildings and site considers the environmental impact of the work but is also the energy efficiency o the building solutions and design. 
• Decisions around programmes of building improvement are strongly stacked in favour of improving energy efficiency and improving the environment.

SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY

The History of the CLIC Trust