Rivermead Inclusive Trust

Discover a growing family of schools based in the heart of Medway.

Inclusivity, collaboration, and academic excellence are central to our practice ensuring that children and young people within the Rivermead Inclusive Trust family are provided with exceptional learning experiences, transforming the lives of all within our unique school communities.

We all have the shared belief that the development of each child, young person and staff member must be at the heart of everything we do.

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Our Vision and Values

Inspiring the journey for independence together

Values

Our work is underpinned by the following values:

Professional honesty and inclusion are at the heart of all we do. The Rivermead Inclusive Trust knows the schools and provisions exceptionally well, because of the strong collaboration between staff at all levels including school leaders and the Trust team. With transparency, credible challenge, and effective support, we move forwards together to excel in our vision and the best outcomes for our children, young people, staff, and families/carers. The Trust is committed to improving the local offer for all pupils within our communities; through excellent collaboration with local schools, skilled professionals, parent groups and businesses, our bespoke expertise is shared allowing more local children and young people, to benefit from these skills and resources.

The Trust aspires to ensure children and young people are well equipped academically, socially, and emotionally for the next stages of their educational journey. Fostering excellent relationships at all levels and having access to many trusted and highly skilled adults, the Trust aspires to ensure our children and young people thrive in a safe and supportive learning environment. We want our pupils to participate and achieve high standards of cultural capital, enhanced with our ‘Learning Passports’, regardless of potential barriers to learning. We are committed to supporting our community through charity work, with our children and young people contributing as active global citizens to their local area. The Trust aims to be a beacon of SEND support within the local and wider area, so that we are the first choice for SEND training and outreach services. We aspire to grow our Trust in a well-considered and sustainable way to ensure financial security for all trust schools and create more opportunity for collaboration.

As well as an enriched academic offer, our schools promote a culture in which children and young people are nurtured to enable them to flourish. We support pupils holistically, with Trust access to our own dedicated team of therapists, allowing for more children and young people in the Trust schools to excel. The Trust are dedicated to nurturing the staff through our well-being packages, career development support and access to a skilled HR network.

We value our pupils equally, whatever the difference in their abilities or behaviours and believe that everyone is a respected member of our Trust family. The Rivermead Inclusive Trust ensures that everyone has a strong voice within our community, which is celebrated so that everyone feels a clear sense of having their voice heard and feeling of belonging. We are passionate in ensuring equity for all through our excellent work around diversity and inclusion. We are committed to building positive relationships with all families/ carers, so that they can play an active part in school life. We strive to ensure that as a responsible and people centred employer, staff feel respected and valued and as a result they choose to remain and grow within the Trust family.

The Trust is an organisation which is driven by the belief that all children and young people deserve the highest standard of education and should excel academically due to the pertinent and relevant bespoke curriculum and the high-quality teaching and support on offer. It is essential for us that all pupils excel in their studies and for those who have the capacity to achieve or perform at an exceptional level, they are encouraged and supported to do so. We are strong advocates for all children and champion every individual to excel so that individual strengths and talents are recognised.

The board of Trustees holds the Chief Executive Officer to account for the operationalisation of these values through the objectives set on the Trust Strategic Plan. All schools within the Trust also mirror these values and principles and align their School Development Plan objectives accordingly.

It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that every child and young person within the Rivermead Inclusive Trust CAN BE their best.

Our Schools

The Trust currently has five schools under its umbrella:

Rivermead Special School - a secondary special school catering for learners with a primary diagnosis of ASC. Rivermead is based across three provisions - the main school in Gillingham, Kent Triple R in Parkwood, Kent and the Rivermead Partnership Post 16 provision based at Mid Kent College in Gillingham, Kent.

Hoo St Werburgh Primary School and Marlborough - a two form entry primary school with a resourced provision for learners with a primary diagnosis of ASC. The school is located on the Hoo Peninsula.

Academy of Woodlands - a large three-form entry primary school in Gillingham, Kent.

Walderslade Primary School - a small one-form entry primary school in Walderslade, Kent.

Luton Primary School - a large three-form entry primary school in Chatham, Kent.

The Trust has also been awarded a Free-School situated in the London Borough of Bromley. This school is yet to be built and will be called Redwood Academy.

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