Established in September 2015, the Girls’ Learning Trust (the GLT) is the largest all-girls, state-funded multi-academy trust in the UK. We bring together four successful and ambitious secondary schools: Nonsuch High School for Girls, Wallington High School for Girls, Carshalton High School for Girls and Weald of Kent Grammar School.

Our schools are located across the London Borough of Sutton and Kent, each with its own distinctive identity, strengths and traditions, united by a shared commitment to providing an exceptional education for girls and young women.

Together, we educate over 6,500 students aged 11–18 and employ a dedicated team of teaching and support staff. Through collaboration, shared expertise and collective ambition, we work to create opportunities that benefit our students, staff and wider school communities, while ensuring that each school retains the character and qualities that make it special.

Our Strategy and Operating Model

Great strategy is easy to understand and simple to follow. Our plan is split into the following key sections:

1. It articulates our overall purpose and education mission that we have for our schools and our students.
2. It identifies the key enablers at Trust level that will help us deliver this.
3. It identifies key principles that drive our actions to help us to become effective, articulating this through a series of commitments between our schools, our staff and our students.
4. It sets out the strategic rationale for our size, and when a function should be moved into a shared service or function for the Trust – what we call our operating model.
5. It sets clear key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor and measure our progress.

Our Strategy and Operating Model

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While we work across the Trust to support school performance and ensure value for public money, we believe strongly in allowing our schools autonomy in developing approaches to pedagogy and the curriculum that will deliver the very best outcomes for their students.

Nevertheless, our shared mission and the many opportunities we have for collaboration across our schools mean that we learn lots from each other and that we remain outward-focussed.