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Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust
Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust was established in 2007 and founded by Shireland Collegiate Academy, an Outstanding school located in the Smethwick area.
The Academy and its predecessor school, Shireland Language College, has been run by Sir Mark Grundy since 1997. Shireland has a national reputation for school improvement, curriculum design and the way that it uses technology to support staff and students. Furthermore, Shireland is a Teaching School which trains the teachers of the future, a Research School which looks at the best approaches and practices to use in teaching and learning, and has partnerships with organisations such as Microsoft, Tute and the Birmingham Hippodrome. As of September 2017 the Trust family, alongside Holyhead Primary Academy, included Shireland Collegiate Academy, Thorns Collegiate Academy and approval for four brand new Technology Primary Academies to be established across the West Midlands.
All of the primary schools within our Trust will be infused with our cornerstones, core values and beliefs.
The Trust’s three principal cornerstones are innovate, inspire and collaborate. To us, innovation means that all staff must be leaders of learning, which will then allow our students to aim higher. Inspiration comes from all staff members seeing further, which in turn motivates our pupils to change attitudes. Finally, collaboration is a product of staff members promoting cohesion within the school community, so that students are concerned for all.
Across the Primary Schools within our trust, there are our three core values: EXCITE, EXPLORE and EXCEL. The Trust ensures that we create experiences and a curriculum that ‘excites’ and motivates both staff to teach and pupils to learn. We guarantee that pupils and staff have the skills needed to confidently and successfully ‘explore’ and learn new things, which in turn arouses curiosity allowing for a successful learning culture where both pupils and staff ‘excel’.
Underpinning our values are our core beliefs of an inclusive education for local pupils at every ability level. We believe that:
- Every pupil will have access to a whole education underpinned by academic rigour.
- Every pupil should be equipped for today, tomorrow and their future lives, acquiring cutting-edge skills and the ability to discover the world and beyond.
- Every pupil should be safe, happy, ambitious for themselves and respectful of all.
Shireland Academy Trust contact details:
Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust
Waterloo Road
Smethwick
B66 4ND
T: 0121 558 8086
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Company No. 6336693. Registered Office: Waterloo Road, Smethwick, B66 4ND