At Kingswinford Academy our vision is:
for all of our students to ASPIRE to Excellence.
we recognise that every child is full of potential and we strive to unleash that potential. We must realise the particular challenges, needs, skills and talents of all of our community and ensure that challenges are overcome, needs met, skills developed and talents nurtured.
We focus on both academic and personal development. We expect our students to make exceptional academic progress during their time at our school. Education is however about the whole child and our curriculum is designed to ensure that students can grow in all aspects of their life.
We achieve this through our whole school approaches shown in the table below.
| Approach |
What this means |
How we do this |
| Excellent teaching and learning |
Enthuse, engage and inspire, every lesson, every day. |
- Teaching, not Fixing
- Working together to develop our skills in the 10
Principles
- Reflecting on our own practice and seeking
personal and team improvement
- Seeking out quality CPL
- Recognising that the biggest improvements are
through quality first teaching
- Remembering that every lesson counts for every student
|
| Excellent wellbeing |
Stay safe, pursue happiness |
- Unconditional Positive Regard
- Making Safeguarding everyone’s first
priority
- Showing zero tolerance to Violence,
Bullying, Discrimination, Defiance and
Substance abuse (of any kind)
- Making school a ‘safe place’ – emotionally, physically and mentally – both in and out of lessons
|
| Excellent people and leadership |
Architects of learning:
- High expectations
- Every child
- No excuses
- Lead learners
- No islands
|
- The Strength & Virtue of Collective Endeavour
- Sharing a clear & strong vision
- Holding High Expectations of ourselves and
each other
- Recognising our responsibilities
- Diagnosing performance accurately
- Improving performance effectively
|
| ASPIRE to excellence |
All of our students will ASPIRE to excellence:
- Active in their learning
- Sure they can improve
- Positive in their attitude
- Imaginative in their thinking
- Resilient when things to wrong
- Effort - giving 100%
|
- Ensuring that there are opportunities for
students to show these attributes
- Offering a Curriculum and Extra-curricular
activities to support these values
- Committing to ‘the Pledge’
- Actively working to build Character
- Offering opportunities to develop leadership
- Offering students quality careers guidance and
destination support
|
| Prepared for excellence |
All of our students will prepare for excellence. |
- Praising students regularly when they get it
right
- Offering rewards and awards for the
extraordinary
- Maintaining very high expectations for all
students
- Being clear, consistent, firm and fair when
they go wrong
- Remembering they are all children
|
|
Achieve excellence
|
All of our students will achieve excellence. |
- Setting highly aspirational targets
- Believing that those targets are achievable
- Accurately and reliably assessing progress
- Comprehensively diagnosing WWW & EBI
- Offering bespoke and thorough delivery and
intervention to close gaps
|
