We are ambitious for all learners. We do not put a ceiling on what students can achieve and we do not make excuses.

• The school’s leadership is transformational – visionary, inspiring and values-based. Leaders are able to envision and share a compelling view of the school in the future; they communicate this effectively to the entire school community. Leaders are cheerleaders, enthusiasts, forecasters and dramatists.
• There is excellent operational leadership. Leaders are planners, organisers, resourcers, tacticians and deliverers. They pay attention to detail and get results; they are resilient and determined.
• The school’s leadership is transactional – based on building and sustaining high quality relationships between leaders and the led. Leaders are nurturers, trainers, mentors and coaches
• Leaders strive to create and embed aspiration and ambition and develop creativity, wider learning and supported risk-taking.
• Leaders develop an optimistic, lively, energising environment to maximise the additional effort of members of the school community.
• Leaders ensure that teachers receive focused and highly effective professional development. Teachers’ subject, pedagogical and pedagogical content knowledge consistently build and develop over time. This consistently translates into improvements in the teaching of the curriculum.
• Leaders ensure that highly effective and meaningful engagement takes place with staff at all levels and that issues are identified. When issues are identified, in particular about workload, they are consistently dealt with appropriately and quickly.
• Staff consistently report high levels of support for well-being issues.
• The school practises invitational and distributed leadership (between staff and students), based on the belief that all have potential for growth and development, in the knowledge that everyone has a different profile of leadership qualities and with an understanding that the best leaders in one situation may not be the most effective in another. Shared leadership demonstrates mutual respect and trust.
• Leaders deliberately build on the capacity for growth and adaption to change through careful recruitment and retention, developing the workforce and fostering learning in the workplace. They see innovation as part of their day-to-day activity.
• Extended and system-wide leadership are widely practised through school-to-school collaboration, the building of networks and quality relationships with outside agencies, and the provision of an infrastructure for new approaches and change.
• Leadership characteristics widely observed in the school include a sense of moral purpose, clarity, creativity, transparency, resilience, energy, enthusiasm, hope and humility.

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