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title: "Our approach"
description: "Discover Shaw Education Trust’s collaborative approach to education. We empower each academy to design its own curriculum, foster creativity, and provide exceptional opportunities for student development. Learn how our supportive network, expert training, and commitment to earned autonomy help every school maintain its unique identity while benefitting from shared expertise and resources."
url: "https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/our-approach"
school: "Shaw Education Trust"
---

# Our approach

### Our collaborative approach

#### What we do

Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

Adding to this, we ensure all our schools offer an awesome range of opportunities aimed at developing student’s independence and employment skills so that our students are prepared for life after education and are ready to enter the world of work.

To help our schools successfully achieve this and to continuously develop good practice, our core team and commissioned experts provide comprehensive ongoing support through high quality teacher training and professional development opportunities.

#### How we do it

Not only do our schools have the support of the core team, but they also have the support of all the other organisations in our family too. We encourage collaboration within and between our schools, effectively creating a community of professionals that share a wide range of valuable experiences, specialist knowledge and a multitude of resources.

 ![Our Values - To Act with Integrity](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/images/banners/values/values-banner-02.png)

Although we are a family who work together to create brighter futures, each of our schools still keep their individual identity and uniqueness. This approach of earned autonomy ensures that integrity and transparency underpins everything that we do, with our Trust Board providing oversight, challenge and support. This support is then strengthened at school level through a system of Academy Councils who represent each school and provide local accountability.

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### Our Trust

- [CEO Welcome](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/welcome)
- [Our Vision, Mission & Values](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/vision-mission-and-values)
- [Our approach](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/our-approach)
- [Our people](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/our-people)
- [Our history](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/about-us)
- [Governance](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/governance)
- [Data Protection](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/data-protection)
- [Blog](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/blog)
- [Galleries](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/photo-galleries)
- [FAQs](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/faqs)
- [Key Information](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information)

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### Contact Us

**Shaw Education Trust**
Kidsgrove Secondary School
Gloucester Road
Kidsgrove
ST7 4DL
VAT: GB 358822467
Tel: 01782 948259
Company Number: 09067175

### Our Trust

- [Welcome](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/welcome)
- [Our approach](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/our-approach)
- [Our values](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/our-values)
- [Our sponsor](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/our-sponsor)
- [Our people](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/our-people)

- [Our policies](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information)
- [Governance](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/governance)
- [Freedom of Information](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/data-protection)
- [FAQs](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/faqs)
- [Data Protection](https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/data-protection)

The Shaw Education Trust Limited is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales under company number 09067175 whose registered address is Shaw Education Trust Head Office, Kidsgrove Secondary School, Gloucester Road, Kidsgrove, ST7 4DL. Shaw Education Trust is an exempt charity.

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