About Us
Transforming Lives Through Girls' Education
Four distinctive schools, united by one shared purpose: to provide an exceptional education that enables girls and young women to thrive.
4 Schools
6,500+ Students
2015 Established
Established in September 2015, the Girls' Learning Trust (the GLT) is the largest all-girls, state-funded multi-academy trust in the UK. We bring together four successful and ambitious secondary schools: Nonsuch High School for Girls, Wallington High School for Girls, Carshalton High School for Girls and Weald of Kent Grammar School.
Our schools are located across the London Borough of Sutton and Kent, each with its own distinctive identity, strengths and traditions, united by a shared commitment to providing an exceptional education for girls and young women.
Together, we educate over 6,500 students aged 11–18 and employ a dedicated team of teaching and support staff. Through collaboration, shared expertise and collective ambition, we create opportunities that benefit our students, staff and wider school communities, while ensuring that each school retains the character and qualities that make it special.
Our Strategy and Operating Model
Great strategy should be easy to understand and simple to follow. Our Strategy and Operating Model provides a clear framework for how we deliver our purpose, support our schools and measure our impact.
It is organised into five connected parts, each exploring a different aspect of how we work. Select a section below to find out more.
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B Our Organisational Enablers The eight areas of leadership, resources, systems and organisational capability that support our schools to deliver an exceptional education. → C Our Shared Commitments The behaviours and principles that shape how we work together, centred on integrity, collaboration and reflection, with positivity as an additional leadership commitment. → D Our Operating Model How we make decisions, balance school autonomy with Trust alignment, approach organisational growth and manage our shared resources. → E Measuring Our Performance The key performance indicators and qualitative evidence we use to monitor progress, understand our impact and support continuous improvement. → Our Purpose and Education Mission Why the GLT exists, what we want to achieve for our students and the educational beliefs that unite our schools.
Our Full Strategy and Operating Model
Explore the GLT's strategic direction, educational priorities and operating principles in one comprehensive publication.
One Trust, Four Distinctive Schools
While we work across the GLT to support school performance and ensure value for public money, we believe strongly in allowing individual schools autonomy in developing approaches to pedagogy and curriculum that will deliver the very best outcomes for their students.
At the same time, our shared purpose and the many opportunities for collaboration across our schools mean that we continually learn from one another and remain outward-focused.
Distinctive School Identities
Each school retains its own traditions, culture and educational approach, responding to the needs of its students and local community.
Shared Strength and Ambition
Working together allows our schools to share expertise, support one another and create opportunities that extend beyond individual institutions.