All Challenger schools are aiming to achieve excellence. At CMAT we believe in the concept of ‘collaborative autonomy’ – schools working together with common aims under a common banner in which they all believe but retaining their sense of autonomy, uniqueness and individual character. We know and research confirms that sustainable school improvement comes from support and challenge from other schools and other partners.

Ensuring excellence for children comes through a mixture of support on a personal scale, great classroom teaching, a sense of success and aspiration within the school, and the ability to shape a personal programme that suits all abilities and talents. The ‘Challenger Model’ ensures schools have strong networks and a strong voice in their future. We will help you build strong capacity to improve from within and a culture that looks outward and never stops aiming to achieve excellence. Collaboration within a range of networks, and autonomy at a local level, are at the heart of what we offer so that individual schools and the family of schools grow through working closely
with us and each other.