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School Improvement Strategy

At the heart of our core offer to schools is access to a wide range of professional services which aim to enable school leaders to focus on their core purpose; aspiring to ensure that all pupils in our schools receive an ambitious high-quality Catholic curriculum. Pupils will leave our schools with a strong faith and the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in a competitive world. We must continue to ask and challenge ourselves if we have given our pupils what they need to succeed in modern Britain and the wider world.

Directors at Emmaus CAT have agreed a central contribution for each school. The central contribution provides centralised services, adding capacity, enabling schools to raise educational standards and support with the delivery of great education.

Our School Improvement Strategy

School improvement is strongest when schools work together. This brings a sense of collaboration and constructive challenge; and summon concrete, positive change, when we work together. The Emmaus CAT structure, we believe, involves a much deeper, long-term commitment to schools, pupils and communities that face difficulties or challenges and will help us to keep improving our successful schools. At Emmaus CAT, we aspire to ensure that all pupils in our schools receive an ambitious high quality Catholic curriculum. This is driven by faith, a moral purpose, and a desire to enable social mobility and equality in educational opportunities. It is built on an honest, challenging, and open culture, partnership working and shared determination for success in every school.

The aim of our school improvement strategy is to outline how the Emmaus CAT Central Team and all stakeholders can work together to support all our schools to improve and change. Emmaus CAT has adopted a partnership approach to implementing this strategy with high levels of trust and coordination between the Central Team, the Emmaus Development Board, and school-based leaders. All stakeholders within Emmaus CAT play a crucial role in supporting their peers to improve standards and outcomes for pupils ensuring they access a broad and rich Catholic curriculum.

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Our Professional Development Strategy

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School Improvement Strategy

At Emmaus CAT we aim to nurture and develop the most valuable resource within our organisation: talent. We recognise that talent is key to achieving excellence and are dedicated to providing life-long learning opportunities at every career stage and job role. Our strategy is to deliver a programme of career and professional development opportunities based on reflection, use of the Gospel and existing research. Every member of Emmaus CAT will know that their contribution is valued.

Our Guiding Principles

At Emmaus CAT, we passionately believe in schools having their own individuality underpinned by Guiding Principles and have developed a suite of guiding principles to support school leaders to deliver aligned autonomy in their schools. These guiding principles set the direction and scope for each area. Guiding principles are not exhaustive and should be used as the building blocks for each school’s autonomous approach. Guiding principles will be co-constructed throughout the academic year with input from headteachers and key school staff.

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School Improvement Strategy

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On the Road to Emmaus

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

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