Our Principles

• The academy will provide an educational community that is calm, welcoming and inclusive, and in which diversity is celebrated.

• Academy students and staff together strive for academic excellence through collaborative partnerships involving staff, students, parents, and a wide range of external experts.

• Everyone at the academy will be an effective and self-motivated learner responsible for their own development and learning and for the development and learning of others.

• Learning in the academy will be high-quality, relevant and production-focused.

• Student leadership and robust student engagement with the academy will secure excellence for all.

• Creativity, innovation, problem-solving and risk-taking will be features in all aspects of the academy life.

• Active citizenship will be encouraged amongst all students and will develop in our community a strong understanding of, and striving for, social justice locally, nationally and internationally.

• Academy students will develop financial awareness, economic independence and the skills to be leaders, employees, employers and entrepreneurs in the workplace of the 21st century.

• The health and wellbeing of students’ own lives and that of their community will be promoted at the academy.

• The academy will promote access to a wide network of health communities who can support pathways to career choices.