What it Means to be Maritime

Mindset

We created Maritime around an idea - education should be meaningful, children should love learning, and everyone who works with us should feel they make an impact. Our schools have transformed through targeted collaboration, innovative ideas, and an entrepreneurial curriculum that builds leadership and life skills into children.

Our staff and pupils have the confidence to give things a go – and know that failure is an opportunity to figure out a better approach. We want to empower our schools with the means to drive more meaningful and enjoyable outcomes for children. But we also want them to learn how to use our model and craft it to fit their schools - consistency of impact without conformity in approach.

That’s what being part of Maritime is. That’s who we are.

Vision

Our vision is to empower schools with the means to drive more meaningful and enjoyable outcomes for children.

We believe:

Every child has the right to a phenomenal education – regardless of ability or background
Education is the best way to fight inequality
Each school is different, and each child is different
Children learn best through creativity and innovation – and opportunities to make them the leaders
Our expectations are of excellence, but how you get there is different for every school – consistency of impact without conformity in approach
We can support people we believe in for a cause we believe in with relentless passion, perseverance, trust and a good sense of humour.

Approach

Collaborate. Within your school, across Maritime schools, and with other schools and organisations we work with.

Innovate. Take these shared ideas and approaches and find new ways to make them work in your classrooms for your pupils.

Educate. Break the barriers to learning so that each child is ready for the future. School should be a safe, happy, and effective place.

Culture

Our Trustees and staff broke down the ways we work together and the behaviours that help to foster the environment that makes our vision happen. We’ve also changed our performance management procedures to incorporate our values.

Our culture is based on our key behaviours:

Impact

Happy, resilient children, being taught by dynamic teachers who love their work and working together. Children who gain the confidence to give things a go, who are having memorable experiences in fantastic learning environments, and achieving excellent results to set them up for the next stage of their lives.

Maritime Academy Trust