Prospectus
Since joining Stradbroke I have been delighted with the rapid progress we have been able to achieve on our journey to becoming an outstanding school. Our progress has been both in academic success and in the exciting improvements to the daily experience of every child at the school.
Tanya Blake, Principal 2 Stradbroke Primary Academy Prospectus
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Welcome To Stradbroke Primary Academy
We have one goal: to give your child the highest standard of education and ensure they leave as well-rounded, independent learners ready to flourish at secondary school. We will support them in setting high expectations for their future and develop their approach to learning to ensure it is aspirational and leads to academic success All staff go the extra mile to ensure every child feels safe, happy, and excited to develop a real love of learning which will stay with them for life. Our student council play a key role in decision-making and we take their views seriously. They have been at the heart of the vision we co created with all Astakeholders.sanacademy within the Inspiration Trust, we are fortunate to be supported in our journey to excellence and regularly benefit from significant improvements to our provision; including creative outdoor play equipment, and state of-the art IT equipment for all children to enjoy Our innovative extended school day programme provides activities for all our older pupils two nights per week with exciting activities on offer covering a range of sporting, musical, and cultural themes. We are always delighted to meet parents for a tour of the academy to see our fabulous pupils at work; please contact the school office to make an appointment
Contents Welcome to Stradbroke Primary Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Our Core Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Our Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Statement Of Teaching and Curriculum Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Reasons To Choose This School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 House System / Student Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 School Day Structure / SEND Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Admission Process / Specic Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Safeguarding Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 School Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Closing Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Stradbroke Primary Academy Prospectus | 3
Stradbroke has a very inclusive ethos and our core values underpin everything we do We have the Highest Expectations for all, we encourage a Supportive and Caring environment, we promote a Love of Learning and aim for all pupils to be Happy and Confident. It is these values that guide our vision and help shape our curriculum.
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Vision
Every School Day Counts Every school day is an opportunity to learn something new and important. Coming to school every day is an important part of giving you the best possible start in life and broadening your horizons
Our Mission Our Core Values
Stradbroke Primary Academy embodies the ambitious and transformational mission of the Inspiration Trust, ensuring all pupils achieve their full potential. Our mission is for Stradbroke to be a centre of excellence, sharing and fostering best practices across the Trust and beyond. We aim to do this by focusing on the highest standards of teaching and learning and developing practitioners at all levels to create an exceptional educational offer
The vision for Stradbroke Primary Academy was co created by pupils, staff and parents: Our vision is for Stradbroke to be a safe, inspiring and inclusive community, which celebrates diversity. We have the highest expectations of pupils and aim to provide an exceptional education, which will equip pupils with the knowledge, ambition and resilience to achieve their full potential. Wherever possible we provide inspirational and enriching experiences to broaden horizons and promote a love of learning.
Enrichment, beyond the classroom, is offered for all key stage 2 children at Stradbroke. It is our passion to broaden the scope of the children's current life experiences and further add to the cultural capital of our pupils
The curriculum at Stradbroke has been designed from the idea that knowledge matters It is broad, ambitious and rigorous. Our curriculum is highly effective and delivers high outcomes across the board.Reading is at the heart of our curriculum and is a huge focus for all our pupils, but especially our youngest pupils. Our children have access to the highest quality texts at every stage to develop their love of reading and to secure skills of inference, prediction and comprehension essential to access wider learning opportunities.
Statement Of Teaching And Curriculum Info
Explicit in our curriculum is a focus on developing the whole child with excellent behaviours for learning, resilience and ambition so that our pupils can fulfil our high expectations and develop high expectations for Athemselves.tStradbroke, we are proud that all of our pupils, including our children with barriers to learning (SEND), have full access to our curriculum. We have the highest expectations paired with strong teacher pedagogy and excellent support from leaders. We aim for all pupils to make excellent progress.
Excellent progress and attainment Pupils at the end of both key stages consistently achieve above national expectations. Prior to 2020, we had a year on-year increase in achievement in all key measures. Trend data prior to the pandemic indicated that the gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils have closed by the end of KS2.
Key stage 2 attainment of the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics combined was significantly above the national average and in the highest 20% of all schools in 2019. 87% of our pupils achieved the national standard compared to the national average of 65%. We continue to work hard to ensure our pupils do the best that they can.
Reasons To Choose This School
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Pastoral support
Pastoral support is a real strength of the school, providing targeted interventions in a timely manner, which include nurture sessions, and support for parents via our PSA and ISA and individual play-based therapy sessions when the need is identified. We are passionate about putting in everything we can to support the child. have excellent opportunities for pupils to develop their understanding of how to contribute positively to the school and wider community through charitable work, leadership roles and elections for posts of responsibility within the school. Pupils play a very active part in the school council providing an excellent platform for pupils' voices. school councillors are involved in interviews of staff, creating and conducting pupil surveys and other important Additionaldecisionstothiswe
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Visitors to the school say…
More importantly, Alan came away very impressed and pleased with what he saw. He said to pass on profound thanks to you. Alan is the Deputy Regional Schools' Commissioner deputy at the DfE. You really impressed him and I wanted to let you know that!
“It was a pleasure as always to work with Stradbroke and your pupils. I'm always amazed by the diversity of characters and personalities that appear when we start filming. Their confidence is fantastic and makes me wonder where the future will take them.”
‘What can I say? Words can't express how bowled over I was by the visit to Stradbroke yesterday
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“I just wanted to say thank you for yesterday. There was a lot going on in the school yesterday and I really think your whole team was outstanding, and the children in their crowns walking to and from lunch were so well behaved. My colleagues both said how lovely it was to walk around and they were particularly impressed by the class ambassadors coming up and explaining what the class was doing, this is something I have talked about with much pride in our team meetings, so please pass on how well they did to all of them from us.”
“There was such a calm attitude across the school and pupils were polite and looked so happy! The school is beautiful and I can see that such care has been taken to create a welcoming, purposeful environment. Every member of staff welcomed me with such warmth, it was a real pleasure to visit ”
Children say Stradbroke is great because… We get help to learn lots of new things - Tilly “ ” The teachers are good at keeping us safe - Ezmae “ ” All our teachers are supportive, are really helpful and they reassure you if you are anxious about things - Leo “ ” Our exciting Science lessons, especially the experiments and practical work - Austin “ ” The whole school is really good and a great place to be. The roast dinners are delicious - Mason “ ” I can use my laptop to support me with tooareschoollearning.myThedinnersyummy-Charlie “ ” It is a -whopeoplewhichwelcomingsmall,schoolreallyhelpslikemehaveanxietyArabella“ ” That it is a calm place to learn with supportive classes - Caelah ” “ Stradbroke Primary Academy Prospectus | 9
House System At Stradbroke Primary Academy we have a house system. Our Houses are named after trees: Willow Resilience and Aspiration Fir Determination and Inspiration Oak Courage and Honesty Beech Knowledge and Ambition The house system offers our children: A strong sense of community and belonging Opportunities for competition Leadership opportunities Opportunities for rewards Opportunities to learn our school values
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Enrichment is free of charge on Tuesdays and Thursdays and runs until 4:30 pm for Key Stage 2.
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Once your child's place at Stradbroke Primary Academy is confirmed, we will discuss your child's barriers to learning with you and your child in detail. We will also talk to your child's current setting (if applicable) and any other professionals working with your child. Together we will draw up a plan with short-term targets focussed on your child's special educational needs. The plan will include provisions that reduce your child's barriers to learning as well as strategies that your child's teacher(s) can use in lessons. Learning Plans, provisions and targets are reviewed on a termly basis with both you and your child and adjusted as needed to reflect their changing needs. If your child has an EHCP, the short-term targets will be linked to the EHCP outcomes
We offer wrap around care if parents require it. Parents can book and pay for their child to attend Breakfast club, from 8 am, and/or After School club, until 4:30 pm. These are available every day of the week.
For more detailed information about what our academy does to support learners with SEND, please read our SEND Information Report on our website. my does to support learners with SEND, please read our SEND Information Report on our
Our gates open at 8:45 am and registration is at 8:55 am. Our youngest children leave from 3 pm and our oldest at 3:15 pm.
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Activities that we have on offer include:
School Day Structure & SEND Provisions
If your child has an identified special educational need or an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), the first step is to talk to our SENCO, Miss Williams. She can give you an overview of the kinds of reasonable adjustments and provisions which are typically made for learners with SEND at Stradbroke Primary Academy to ensure that they can access the curriculum and enrichment opportunities
SEND At Stradbroke Primary Academy, we are committed to ensuring that learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are fully included in the life of the school and are able to thrive academically and socially
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Children may start school full-time at the beginning of the autumn term before their fifth birthday. (Part-time admission will be considered on an individual basis.)
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If you have any queries about an application for a place at Stradbroke Primary Academy or about the admissions process please contact the School Office.
For the first admission to school, the common application form will be sent to parents using data supplied by Norfolk PCTs in accordance with the published timetable. For transfers to Secondary school, common application forms will be sent to parents via their child's current school. Closing date for applications will be as per the published timetable.
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Admission Process
A full overview of our admissions arrangements is available in our Admissions Policy and on our school webpage
By law, children must start statutory education full-time at the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday. Where admission is offered prior to compulsory school age, parents may defer their child's entry into school until later in that academic year. Parents should contact the Local Authority Admissions department details as 800
follows: Admissions Team County Hall Martineau Lane Norwich NR1 2DL Telephone: 0344
Our admission policy allows children to start school earlier than the law requires. However, the law also allows parents to ask for their child to be admitted but lets them delay the start date until later in the school year. Your child must start school by the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday and the place must be taken up by the start of the summer term. If you inform us that you wish to delay your child's entry the place will be held and will not be offered to another child.
Admission to main school
At Stradbroke Primary Academy we are committed to keeping staff, pupils and visitors safe and happy. Our Designated Safeguarding Lead ensures that effective support is provided to pupils that need it and our strong pastoral system ensures that all pupils are well known and their needs understood. Stradbroke Primary Academy Prospectus | 13
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Closing Statement At Stradbroke we want our pupils to be the best that they can be and to make a difference We challenge them to go further than they thought they could and to achieve more than they have before We are very aware that children have one shot at education and we ensure that they do the best they can Come and see our fantastic school. Stradbroke Primary Academy Prospectus | 15
Stradbroke Primary Academy Lowestoft Road Gorleston on Sea Great Yarmouth NR31 6LZ Tel: 01493 662220 Stradbrokeoffice@inspirationtrust org