About Us – Endeavour MAT

Welcome From The CEO

Our Vision – ‘Growing Stronger Together’

At Endeavour, our ambition is that every child deserves the very best from their education, irrespective of the uniform they put on in the morning.

We are a small primary and secondary trust, with four very different schools. Our differences make us stronger and we are united by a desire to continually improve together. We believe that schools must retain their unique identity whilst being relentlessly ambitious. The balance between collaboration and autonomy sits at the heart of our ethos.

Our schools are well run, pastoral systems are strong, behaviour is excellent, results are impressive. Our extra-curricular provision is wide ranging and we prepare our young people well for the next stage of their lives. We are well connected to universities and employers. When the time comes to make big decisions, we will support you every step of the way.

If you are a parent or carer, we will care for your child, stretch your child and support your child to lead a successful life.

If you wish to work for us, as a large organisation we will support you throughout your career. We want our colleagues to thrive.

If you are a school considering joining us, or even if you want to talk about what it entails, please get in touch.

Finally, we believe in the power of schools, as centres of their communities, to work to make things better.

Welcome to Endeavour

Charlie Guthrie
Chief Executive Officer

Our Vision & Values

We are committed to inspiring and nurturing the next generation. Most educational Trusts like ours would say this – it’s the how do we do it, how we are different, that’s important.

We are a responsive, learning organisation. Though our core values can’t and won’t change we recognise the need to be flexible as to how we provide and promote a range of learning opportunities for our students and help them become well educated, rounded, community spirited young adults who are a global asset. Perspectives and context change. For example, go back five years and the current career opportunities offered by higher level apprenticeships simply wouldn’t have been available. Environmental challenges are pressing and technological improvements will continue to change the manner in which people work. We need our students to be prepared for such change and to be part of the solution in ensuring our economy, our nation and our planet continues to thrive

Endeavour Trust schools are recognised for their aspirational approach to student engagement. The schools provide a nurturing environment, encourage a love of learning and are recognisable by the extensive collaboration with industry partners who help to co-design aspects of the curriculum and support the varied Careers Education, Information and Guidance work. The schools share similar values, which are summed up with a variety of different acronyms, but all are based around core ideals such as Respect, Determination, Self-Management, Equality of Opportunity, Integrity and Community.

The Trust carefully monitors the latest research to ensure its curriculum provision for students is appropriate and cutting edge. Drawing from The McKinsey Global Report it is clear that education in the 21st Century needs to adjust to compensate for the fact that demand for technological, social and emotional, and higher cognitive skills will rise by 2030. Skill shifts have accompanied the introduction of new technologies in the workplace since at least the Industrial Revolution, but adoption of automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will mark an acceleration over the shifts of even the recent past. The need for skills, such as system integration, software and project development in addition to social and emotional skills, will rise, even as the demand for others, including physical and manual skills, will fall.

Our core aims as a Trust, working with and supporting our schools are:

Strategic Plan

Endeavour MAT has adopted a new Strategic Plan for the period 2022 – 2027, which outlines the ambitions for the Trust over the medium term.

As a multi academy trust we have clear strategic themes which are founded in our vision and values. The Strategic Plan 2022-2027 outlines our plans and communicates these so that all stakeholders can have confidence in our commitment to the future.

Underpinning the Strategic Plan is an Operational Development Plan along with Medium Term Financial Plans and detailed budgets as well as individual School Improvement Plans. These plans are tracked through the year and reviewed annually. To read our Annual Review published January 2024, please click here.

You can access our strategic plan by clicking the image to the left.