Welcome to Discovery Academy. As the Principal of the Academy I hope you will find the information on the website useful in helping you and your child find out more about us. If your child is due to join us we hope that this information will help you to settle them in and become part of our community.

I believe that learning should be of the highest quality for every child, in every lesson, every day. Our Academy values of Discovering, Inspiring, Caring, Improving and Achieving sit at the heart of everything that we do. You can visit our Facebook and Twitter pages to see examples of our values in our learning.

Children learn best when they are happy, safe and are enjoying their time at school and we aim to achieve this for all of our children all of the time. Our Academy has excellent facilities in a brand new building including a wealth of IT and sporting resources and we work hard to ensure that your child will receive a varied and engaging range of experiences during their time with us.

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Mrs Oldham

Principal

Mission

It is our mission to provide an educational journey and experience that is second to none, to be a beacon in our communities and to leave our children and families with the lasting impact of a fulfilled potential and a lifelong love of learning. In providing excellent educational services we aim to become the school of choice in our local area and provide a place where children can thrive educationally and personally day after day.

Vision

We believe in aspiration for all. This means nurturing, supporting and developing every aspect of every single child in our care. We want to create a world where the sky is the limit for all of our pupils; building pathways for all and focusing on personal and academic success and eventually progress to successful employment.

We have a wonderfully supportive ethos at Discovery Academy which ensures that our pupils are well behaved, hardworking, friendly and kind. All characteristics that we believe make for happy and successful children. Our values are:

• Discovering– Seeking opportunities to expand knowledge and experience;
• Inspiring – Encouraging all to be as creative and motivating as possible;
• Caring – Providing support and guidance for the whole school community;
• Improving – Striving to better ourselves at all times; and
• Achieving – Teaching to attain aspirational targets.

For our pupils this means:

• Discovering – finding out about our world we live in;
• Inspiring – making somebody else want to do something positive;
• Caring – looking after each other and thinking about others;
• Improving– getting better at things because we keep trying; and
• Achieving– getting something by working hard for it.

As a growing multi academy trust we are looking to increase the number of schools that we work with to strengthen the Trust quickly creating a hub of excellence. Initially we hope that this will be by incorporating new schools that are at least Good which will help to support and develop our Trust and our existing academies.

We are looking to grow to a Trust of between 3,500 and 5,000 pupils in the north west so that we can support more schools locally.

If you are interested in joining us we would be very happy to meet with you to discuss the opportunities and about how we could work with you to make a positive difference to the pupils in your school, working in collaboration and partnership with you. We celebrate autonomy and the individuality of our academies so that children can develop and thrive in their settings.

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