Nishkam Schools Multi-Academy Trust (NSMAT) is a high performing group of academy schools with a Sikh ethos, multi-faith, virtues-led approach to education. Trust pupil outcomes are in the top 10% nationally; schools are generally Ofsted outstanding. There are more than 3200 students across 6 schools in the West Midlands, West London, Leeds and Derbyshire. Three nurseries also in West Midlands and Leeds. We believe that our approach to education should be more than simply a means to acquiring factual knowledge but be founded in character growth. It engages pupils more fully to what it might be to be the highest of human virtue and engage in the question of the purpose of life and beyond. These tools enable pupils to have optimistic attitudes and behaviours in school and the social skills to become future leaders.