• Outcomes for children;
• Opportunities for economies of scale;
• The robust nature of our accountability towards and for one another;
• All partner schools’ capacity to dictate their own direction providing good outcomes for pupils and a strong curriculum is part of their offer.

This helps us to continue to build upon the work of Symphony in which:

• Our school leaders and teachers share thinking and planning to spread expertise and tackle challenges together;
• Our Local Governors come together to share strategic thinking, to combine skills and to support each other during challenging times;
• Shared professional development can more easily be arranged, whether led by staff from one of the partner schools or an outside body.

Symphony Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust in which the accountability for outcomes benefit from the fact that:

• Our school leaders, teachers and other staff can be shared across more than one school, enabling us to find different solutions to recruitment challenges, to retain staff by providing new opportunities within the group and to plan succession more effectively;
• Our groups of schools through a central business team and central services find it easier to find and fund specialist expertise (specialist teachers and specialists in areas such as data analysis, finance, health and safety, HR) and provide richer curricular and extra-curricular activities;
• No school is ever left vulnerable in since the significant expertise in other schools can be utilised on an equal footing.