A WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION

We want all our students to enjoy their education and to achieve their true potential. To this end, we offer a broad and ambitious curriculum, personalised to our students’ needs, that lifts them out of their everyday experiences.

We place appropriate emphasis on the core subjects – maths, English, the humanities, the sciences and languages – but we also offer all students excellent teaching in other subjects including PE, creative technologies and performing arts. There is no narrowing of the curriculum in Key Stage 3 to ensure the younger years of school are enriching and set students up brilliantly for GCSEs.

In Year 10 students specialise, refining their subject choices. Our teachers assist this process so that students make informed decisions about their future studies and careers.

Our teachers are trained to inspire the best in each student, we ‘pitch high and support’. Where students need extra help on a particular topic or skill, we coach them in small groups and even one-to-one. Special Educational Needs are catered for with care and expertise.

Our students regularly participate in after-school enrichment classes, activity days and educational visits, including inter-academy events within the Federation, which help to bring learning alive.

As a Harris academy, we are part of Harris Experience. This programme has been designed for the most able students from Year 9 onwards. It exposes them to a range of academic and cultural experiences that take their learning well beyond the curriculum. Recent examples range from learning the art of auctioneering at Christie’s to a day of lectures at the University of Oxford.