Welcome to The White Horse Federation | Inspiring lives
We are incredibly proud of our colleagues and schools across our Trust. It is an honour to have such a diversity of settings serving children aged 2 to 19.
Every day, across our Trust, colleagues are inspiring the lives of children and families who live in the communities that we serve. We are humbled to be at the heart of our communities in Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, as trusted partners, offering an education and experiences that support all children to flourish.
We are a family of 30 schools and settings, connected and working together to inspire the lives of children with greater opportunity and choice. Our mission:
Inspiring every child to flourish through an inclusive, all-through education that nurtures opportunity, equity, and agency for life.
We collectively seek to support and enable children to flourish in their lives, now and into adulthood. We also seek to inspire the lives of all colleagues across the Trust, with opportunity and connection, so that they are empowered to inspire each other, as well as our children.
The White Horse Federation is a human organisation, based on building strong relationships, as a foundation for colleagues to reach high standards and uphold high expectations of what children can achieve. A Trust that seeks to develop character and high academic standards, by applying equity to enable children to have more opportunities, more choice and greater agency in their lives.
As a team of colleagues, a Trust and a group of schools we are deeply connected and committed to the children who carry the most and who need us the most. We seek to offer high-quality education and to apply the equity required, so that we meet the needs of every child.
Dr. Dan Nicholls
CEO
The White Horse Federation
WHF Head Office
Plymouth Street
Swindon Wiltshire
SN1 2LB
01793 818603
Mission & Values
Our Mission
We will strengthen our trust, deepen our connection and collaboration to add more value to each other and to all children. This is a venture in shared responsibility and joint endeavour to inspire lives with greater opportunity and choice. We seek to fulfil and succeed in the organisation’s mission:
Inspiring every child to flourish through an inclusive, all-through education that nurtures opportunity, equity, and agency for life.
A mission that ensures 11,000 children flourish and develop greater self-agency, becoming the masters of their fate. A worthy quest powered by 1,500 connected colleagues, empowered to do meaningful work.
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For those that carry the most
We recognise that some children carry more than most, have had less opportunity and experiences in their early childhood and so need us more. They neither lack ambition or ability, but they have less capacity, fewer resources and face barriers that tip odds against them. In difficult times education has the power to transform lives, which is the business we are in. The performance and development of these children is the most important measure of our worth.
“We need equity in education, not equality. If someone can’t see straight because the world is falling in around them, we need to raise them up to clearer skies.” (Poor, Katriona O’Sullivan)
Anchored by our Values
Everything we do is held by our shared values:
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