Our vision for 2030
“We want every child to have a happy and high-quality education enabling them to grow and flourish during their time at school.
We will provide schools that develop our young people’s competence, confidence and character, driven by local community context and inclusive Christian values, ensuring everyone achieves their academic and personal potential and leaves our Trust prepared for the next stage of their life journey.
We want BDAT schools to be schools of choice for the diverse and special communities we serve.
We will recruit develop, inspire and retain highly skilled staff dedicated to making sure our children and young people have every chance to succeed.”
Alignment of vision and values with our Academies
As a MAT we are proud to work and educate in Bradford – the youngest city in Europe where 25.7% of the population are aged under 18. Our schools are reflective of the wider diverse and vibrant city we live in with ethnic minorities making up 43% of the total population. Within BDAT 51.2% of our students come from ethnic minorities heritage. There are 160 languages spoken by children attending schools in the Bradford district. The BDAT vision needs to be strong enough to support and have relevance to each of our unique and special communities so that each of those communities understands how they fit within the BDAT family.
At BDAT, we live out our vision in partnership with our schools through our shared values. These values are known as ICARE (Inclusion, Compassion, Aspiration, Resilience and Excellence). They provide a common driver and way of working for all of our schools. While the ICARE values can be described as Christian values, at BDAT we believe these values are inclusive and appropriate to all faiths and to those of no faith rather than exclusively Christian. This enables us to work with both Church schools and non-church schools and to support the many diverse and distinct communities we serve across Bradford.
Building from our values each of our individual academies vision is aligned to the BDAT vision but tailored in context to each Academies settings. This applies to all our Church schools and non-Church schools and ensures relevance to the unique and special community each of our schools serve.
Our Values are:
Inclusion. We understand everyone is equal, without exception. We value and encourage diversity and difference. We proactively seek to learn from others.
Compassion. We care for each other. We respect each other and treat our friends and colleagues how they would expect to be treated. We make sure we are safe, feel loved and are actively supported at all times.
Aspiration. We set high expectation for ourselves, our children and our staff so that each of us is supported to achieve our own potential. We expect nothing but the best from ourselves and from others.
Resilience. We are ambitious and reflective. We are determined and brave in making decisions and when facing challenges. We expect our schools to provide us with the skills and knowledge to guide us through our future as life long learners.
Excellence. We provide rigorous support and challenge to our schools and our students. We strive for excellence in all we do.
We will do this by:
Alignment of vision and values with the Church of England.
As a Church Trust it is important that the BDAT vision and values align with the Church of England’s vision for education and the National Society’s vision for enabling flourishing schools that are created for the “common good of the whole community”.