In LDST, we are committed to the education of all pupils, from all faiths and none. We are determined that all learners across our Trust will thrive through an education that teaches wisdom, instils hope, nurtures community and embeds dignity and respect. 

Our Trust is built on four core values:

Working together, our schools collaborate, research and share widely to ensure that we achieve our vision to learn, love and achieve together.   

 

“Since joining LDST, we have been fully supported and challenged to further improve practice through excellent training, shared best practice and quality assurance. We feel empowered to achieve our best.” 
Anya Richardson, Headteacher, Rainford CE Primary School 

Trust Growth

Our Trust was established in September 2017 and has grown rapidly in that time.  We now have 19 schools, and they have all taken an active role in shaping our Trust, ensuring it is focused on making a real difference to all learners.  

LDST has schools across 7 Local Authorities in the Northwest – Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens, Wigan, Warrington and Lancashire. We are determined to now make a bigger difference to learners across our region and are keen to welcome non-faith schools into our family, to learn from them and to support them to learn, love and achieve, together. 

We are excited to invite maintained schools to join LDST within our Achieve Together hub; maintained schools who share our “uncompromising vision and a commitment to ensuring that pupils benefit from a high-quality education, irrespective of their background or ability." Ofsted 2023.

This hub will benefit from the systems, processes, policies, CPD and collaboration already established in LDST, becoming part of our wider LDST family. Our Achieve Together schools will also have the opportunity to work together across the hub and the wider Trust to embed the highest quality education for all learners. Our current LDST schools will benefit from wider collaboration and research driven approaches to meeting the needs of the most disadvantaged and those with SEND. Our current LDST schools will benefit from wider collaboration and research driven approaches meeting the needs of the most disadvantaged and those with SEND.

We are now looking for our lead Achieve Together school; a school that puts inclusion at the heart of all they do and can grow our Achieve Together hub providing leadership and vision that ensures all our learners can thrive and flourish.

The leader of this lead school, as an executive leader, will work with Trust leaders to grow the hub, grow our Trust and ensure that, irrespective of background, all our learners will achieve their potential. The Chair of this Lead school will be invited to the Board of Directors, ensuring a strategic voice from within the maintained sector. The Governing Body will become a Local Governing Body with members reflective of the community it serves.

Benefits of joining our Trust

 The benefits of joining LDST reflect our core values: 

We value collaboration 

• Our established networks have provided exciting opportunities for schools to work together to create a fluid school improvement system. Our aim is to enable sustainable collaboration, with schools actively sharing best practice and supporting and challenging one another.  
• Connecting great teachers and leaders across our family of schools to share best practice and provide an excellent education. 
• Working together to minimise administrative burdens, maximise efficiencies and target the most resources possible into school improvement. 
• Developing peer partnerships with other MATS nationally and an annual Trust INSET Day with nationally renowned keynote speakers. 

  We value local 

• We seek to empower local leadership of our schools and support Headteachers and Local Governors to serve their local communities. 
• Centralised policies and infrastructure that free up leaders to focus on teaching and learning. 
• On behalf of CEFEL, we deliver the suite of DFE accredited NPQs, including NPQ SENDCO, providing high quality CPD and leadership development and coaching
• Direct access to the whole suite of NPQs with high quality teaching and mentoring. 
• Empowering and developing local governance with agreed delegation and regular CPD to support and challenge local leadership. 

 We value inclusion 

• We celebrate diversity, address inequality, overcome disadvantage and raise aspirations so that learners can achieve their highest academic potential.  
• A commitment to inclusion ensuring that all learners overcome barriers and thrive through an education that teaches wisdom, instils hope, nurtures community and embeds dignity and respect. 
• Providing opportunities for all our people to develop, pursue career aspirations and contribute significantly to wider improvements. 

We value difference and celebrate the strengths in each of our schools

• We are so proud that each school in LDST is unique and are committed to providing school improvement support to schools so that they can be self-sustaining and flourishing. 
• Providing a bespoke offer which provides an excellent education, either through the individual school’s own ability to self-improve or through relevant support and intervention. 

Our School Improvement  Model

We are committed to supporting schools to be self-sustaining, inclusive learning communities of professionals that connect and collaborate to share best practice and innovative approaches. Within our School Improvement Strategy, we provide a graduated level of support and intervention to schools based on accurate categorisation of strengths, needs and priorities. 

Our school improvement strategy supports: 

• leaders by encouraging collaboration at every level, so that strengths can be celebrated, and best practice shared.  
• schools to provide an inspirational curriculum and excellent teaching which enable our children to acquire a deep body of knowledge and a zest for life-long learning  

Through our strategy, we strive to know our schools well, so that we can be: 

 Our schools tell us that our school improvement offer is why they joined and why they recommend LDST.    

“The collaboration, support and genuine care provided by fellow Headteachers, and the Central Team is truly amazing and has without question helped to support all staff but also helped to drive forward standards in school. The extent of the school improvement provision we receive was demonstrated in our recent Ofsted inspection (January 2022) wherein we received an outstanding judgement.” 

Jennifer Young, Headteacher, Parish Primary School 

Join Us 

We are really keen to welcome new schools to our Trust to ensure that together we make a difference across our region. If the prospect of being part of this innovative approach has inspired you, and you can see the benefit of schools working together to achieve collective aims, we would welcome hearing from you. 

 If you would like to find out more about LDST or wish to arrange a meeting with members of our team, please contact Hollie Stott:  hollie.stott@ldst.org.uk