Stradbroke Primary Academy Prospectus

An Inspiration Trust Academy

We care, we share, we dare to do more

Since joining Stradbroke Primary Academy 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 pupil in the school.

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 pupil feels safe, happy, and excited to develop a real love of learning which will stay with them for life. Our Student Council plays a key role in decisionmaking and we take their views seriously. They have been at the heart of the vision we cocreated with all stakeholders.

Our innovative extended school day programme provides activities for all our older pupils 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 and to see our fabulous pupils at work; please contact the school office to make an appointment.

Tanya Blake, Principal

Our Core Values

Stradbroke Primary Academy 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.

The vision for Stradbroke Primary Academy was co-created by pupils, staff and parents. Our vision is for Stradbroke Primary Academy 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.

Our Mission

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 Primary Academy 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.

Wherever possible we will provide inspirational and enriching experiences and promote a love of learning.

Every school day counts, and is an opportunity to learn something new and important. Coming to school every day is an important part of giving pupils the best possible start in life and broadening their horizons.

Supporting Pupils at Every Stage

Here at Stradbroke Primary Academy we recognise that moving into primary school comes with its own set of changes and challenges. In order to support our pupils each stage of the transition process is carefully thought out and children are well prepared for this.

At Stradbroke Primary Academy, we offer tailored transition to cohorts so pupils are comfortable and feel prepared for their next step in education.

In the past we have offered:

Stay and play sessions where new starters can see their future classroom and visit their teachers ahead of joining the school

Visits to local nurseries in order for teachers to introduce themselves, and give an insight into what transitioning into primary school is like for both pupils and parents

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Tours for prospective parents and pupils from staff to explore the school environment during the day

Home visits from reception staff if necessary to ensure that new starters are comfortable in what to expect of their new school and routine

Half days for the first few weeks of term in order to make the transition into primary school more smooth.

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.

VISITOR

Pastoral Care and Safeguarding

Safeguarding is our highest priority at Stradbroke Primary Academy and it is everyone’s responsibility within our school to ensure our pupils are happy, healthy, and safe.

The emotional wellbeing of our pupils is always at the front of our minds and we know how important it is to nurture our pupils’ mental health in order to help them achieve academically. Therefore we help our pupils learn how to identify and name their emotions as well as ensure we check in regularly with them.

At our academy, we promote a culture that encourages children to talk to the adults in our school and to let them know if they are upset or have any worries so that we can support them and help to make things better.

Each and every one of our staff knows how important it is to listen and to give our pupils the time and space to talk.

SEND Support

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.

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. They 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.

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 focused 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 work with a number of outside agencies and providers to ensure your child receives the support they need to flourish. Whether this be a placement, an SRB, vision and hearing screening and support, speech and language therapists or working with an educational psychologist.

For more detailed information about what our academy does to support learners with SEND, please read our SEND Information Report on our website.

All our teachers are supportive, really helpful and they reassure you if you are anxious about things. PUPIL

Our Curriculum

The curriculum at Stradbroke Primary Academy 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 pupils 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.

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 themselves.

At Stradbroke Primary Academy, we are proud that all of our pupils, including our children with barriers to learning, have full access to our classroom.

We have the highest expectations paired with strong teacher pedagogy and excellent support from leaders. We aim for all pupils to make excellent progress.

Reading: The Stradbroke 100

We are passionate about ensuring every child develops the skills and knowledge they need, inspiring a love of reading that opens the door to the best academic opportunities.

We have identified the ‘Stradbroke 100’. These are 100 books we feel that pupils should read before they leave the academy.

All of the books are available for pupils at the school and staff ensure that pupils have access to these texts and the opportunity to become familiar with them.

These books are recorded over the years, so pupils can see the progress they have made over the course of their school journey.

We also have an excellent library on site that pupils can use to borrow fiction and nonfiction books.

Progress and Attainment

The whole team at Stradbroke Primary Academy work hard to ensure that our pupils succeed and improve from their starting point. We consistently attain results that are in line with or are above the national percentage benchmarks.

This is despite the fact that many pupils enter the academy from below, or well below typical, starting points. If a pupil is with us from Reception to Year 6 they generally meet the Expected Standard by the end of Key Stage 2.

Music Matters at Stradbroke Primary Academy

The Inspiration Trust strongly believes in the power of music to enhance lives, both through the sheer pleasure of listening to and enjoying music, and through the discipline of individual and group playing and singing. As part of our extended Arts and Culture Programme, pupils have the opportunity to take part in a variety of plays, concerts and music competitions.

As part of our commitment to music education, we also offer our students a range of peripatetic lessons with our highlyskilled and experienced team of Visiting

Music Teachers - these include piano, singing and recorder lessons. Learning to play an instrument helps students to develop cognitive and social skills, expand language and motor skills, as well as help build determination and patience. Plus, it is fun!

Our pupils are encouraged to participate in numerous Trust-wide music competitions and Inspiration Trust has made a pledge to have a full orchestra or musical ensemble in every one of its schools by 2027.

Every year our students get to take part in our Trust-wide Carol Service.

An annual tradition, the Carol Service sees pupils from all across our sister schools - primaries, secondaries and sixth forms - join forces to perform a series of traditional carols and hymns in the Winter Term.

Always a big calendar event, the Carol Service is a fantastic opportunity for our students and staff to showcase their brilliant musical capabilities, whether through playing instruments or singing, while getting to perform in an iconic location.

The Carol Service is a fun Christmas event that always makes for a lovely family evening.

Extra-Curricular Activities

At Stradbroke Primary Academy we are passionate about providing experiences that will enhance the curriculum and provide opportunities for personal development.

At Stradbroke Primary Academy enriching opportunities to build pupils’ cultural capital are offered in many ways. In Key Stage 2 we offer after school enrichment activities which give pupils the chance to try out activities that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to do.

Activities depend on what we have to offer at the time but have included: karate, cooking, sports activities (such as lacrosse and archery, as well as football and basketball), art activities and computing.

Visits and visitors are coordinated to ensure that pupils are provided with developmentally appropriate opportunities. We value the experience of performance to develop pupils confidence and speaking skills.

In Year 2 and Year 5 pupils create ‘A Play in a Day’ in conjunction with Konflux Theatre, creating performances around themes such as ‘The Great Fire of London’ and ‘The Tempest’. In Year 4 pupils explore the conflict between Boudicca and the Roman invaders.

We also feel it is important for pupils to visit places of interest and the range and scope of visits increase as pupils go through the school. We offer a residential experience in Year 6 to ensure pupils can challenge and test themselves to develop skills and character.

Partnerships

All the fantastic opportunities and experiences we are able to provide our pupils wouldn’t be possible without the brilliant partners that we work with.

Stradbroke Helping Hands is a group of parents and grandparents who support the academy on a voluntary basis. They fundraise and support us in holding events for the academy community. They volunteer within the school and support us on school trips.

We have developed many community links including the local police, the sixth form college, other schools within our cluster, The Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth, Konflux theatre and The Royal Opera House.

Our Student Council

We 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.

We are passionate about the personal development of pupils and try to offer as many opportunities for pupils to develop their leadership skills.

Head Pupils play an important part in supporting the senior leadership team at events and with the day-to-day activities within school, while House Captains and Vice Captains support any ‘House’ events and activities, such as sports day or other competitions.

Class Ambassadors welcome visitors and offer a pupil perspective for visitors.

Pupils play a very active part in the school council providing an excellent platform for pupils’ voices. Our School Councillors are involved in interviews of staff, creating and conducting pupil surveys and other important decisions. They also offer suggestions for change from the pupil point of view.

Our Green Team are ‘Eco-Warriors’, supporting us to find ways to become more sustainable and reduce waste.

Additionally, we offer leadership opportunities for pupils through other avenues such as the PE curriculum and our Reading Champions.

Our 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 pupils: A strong sense of community and belonging

Opportunities for competition

Leadership opportunities

Opportunities for rewards

Opportunities to learn our school values.

Taking Part in Trust-Wide Sports Competitions

At Inspiration Trust we pride ourselves on our sports provision which not only includes a nationally-recognised sports curriculum, but includes half-termly Trust-wide sports competitions.

These competitions include football, athletics and dodgeball, and sees us working in partnership with brilliant local organisations such as the UEA Sportspark and The Nest in order to offer our students the very best facilities in which to compete. The atmosphere at these events is always described as electric!

Through taking part in sporting competitions our students are given the chance to shine outside of the classroom and learn vital skills such as the importance of team work, determination, patience and perseverance.

It is also proven that taking part in sport encourages higher standards of achievement, improves cognitive function and improves overall wellbeing through having fun and making friendships. Whilst outstanding sports provision is often overlooked within the state sector, all of us at Stradbroke Primary Academy believe it is a core part of what every pupil should expect from their time in education and we are proud to deliver that.

Primary Olympiads

All pupils have the opportunity to be involved in our Trust-wide Olympiads. These see pupils compete in competitions within their favourite subjects, allowing them to shine in areas where they are gifted.

One of our strategic aims is to ensure each and every child fulfils their potential. We believe this potential is not only reached through academic success, but through wider opportunities such as competitive programmes.

Our Olympiads cover everything from Maths and Modern Foreign Languages through to Geography and Computer Science. They help children learn about teamwork and morals, and offer a fun, alternative way to explore the subjects they love.

School Meals

At Stradbroke Primary Academy, all pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to a free school lunch.

We still ask that parents complete the free school meals application form if in receipt of benefits as this adds several thousand pounds funding per child to the money we have to spend on your child’s education.

Our school canteen provides a healthy, balanced menu, or parents can send their child with a balanced, healthy packed lunch.

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.

VISITOR

Our gates open at 8:45am and registration is at 8:55am.

Pupils leave from 3.15pm.

Enrichment is free of charge and currently takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays and run until 4:30pm for Key Stage 2.

We offer wrap-around care if parents require it. Parents can book and pay for their child to attend Breakfast Club from 8am, and/or AfterSchool Club, until 4:30pm. These are available every day of the week.

Our Uniform

We believe that school uniform promotes the ethos of our school, and helps set an appropriate tone for education.

All children should wear clothing that is in keeping with a purpose and an aspirational learning environment. We want children at Stradbroke Primary Academy to take immense pride in their dress, behaviour and learning.

You can order your uniform from our supplier, Harrisons Schoolwear. Our uniform includes:

Navy V-necked jumper with Stradbroke Primary Academy logo or Navy cardigan, with Stradbroke Primary Academy logo.

Charcoal grey skirt or trousers. A white buttoned polo shirt (Reception and Years 1 and 2)

A white collared buttoned shirt (longsleeved or short-sleeved)

Stradbroke tie (Year 3 and above)

Charcoal grey tights or white/grey socks (no leggings)

Plain white/dark socks

Black shoes (no sandals or boots).

Year 5 and 6 pupils are required to wear the Navy Blazer with the Stradbroke Primary Academy logo.

Rights Respecting School Award

UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working for children and their rights collaborating with schools in the UK.

UNICEF creates safe and inspiring places to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured, and they are able to thrive. The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens.

This award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children’s rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school.

At Stradbroke Primary Academy we work very hard to support our pupils to understand, appreciate and uphold their own rights and that of other children, through discussions, assemblies, use of class charters, campaigns for change and a wide range of activities.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is at the heart of all that we do at Stradbroke Primary Academy, and we are proud to be a school that adopts these values and promotes them within our school community. Together young people and the school community learn about children’s rights, putting them into practice every day.

The Admissions Process

By law children must start statutory education full-time at the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday.

For first admission to school, the common application form will be sent to parents. The closing date for applications will be as per the published timetable. 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.)

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 also 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 have any queries about an application for a place at Stradbroke Primary Academy or about the admissions process please contact the school office. A full overview of our admissions arrangements is available in our Admissions Policy and on our school webpage.

Admissions Team, County Hall

Martineau Lane

Norwich NR1 2DL

Telephone: 0344 800 8020

Email: admissions@norfolk.gov.uk

We are part of Inspiration Trust, twice ranked the country’s top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress