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Student Leadership. Leadership opportunities are available to student in all years with a ladder of growing responsibility culminating in our Prefectural Board in Year 11. Leadership opportunities are by application and interview, allowing staff to prepare students for college, university and work interviews.
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Stockport Academy delivers a Character Education under the...
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Stockport Academy believes in providing an outstanding education for its students through a relentless pursuit of academic excellence. Students are also supported in identifying and developing character, in their lessons, around school, in after-school activity and in their lives within their local community.
At Stockport Academy we aim to ensure that all students have a balanced curriculum that inspires and challenges them. We want students to learn and to enjoy learning. We want students to think and to ask questions. Most importantly, we want students to achieve and to feel proud of their success.
- Overall effectiveness
- It is not yet an outstanding school because
- What does the school need to do to improve further?
- are good
- Behaviour
- Safety
- is good
- requires improvement
This inspection: Leadership and management Behaviour and safety of pupils Quality of teaching Achievement of pupils Sixth form provision
Progress is not as rapid at Key Stage 3 as it is at Key Stage 4. There is still some variation in achievement across subjects. Marking does not always provide precise enough guidance about how students should improve their work, particularly for the least able. Assessment of students’ work is not as accurate at Key Stage 3 as it is at Key Stage 4. ...
Improve teaching so that achievement becomes outstanding, by: ensuring that marking always provides students with very clear next steps about how to improve their work and that teachers give them time to act on the guidance ensuring that work is always stimulating and well matched to the needs of the learners, particularly the least able, so that t...
The Principal is passionately committed to the academy and the community and is unrelentingly focused on ensuring that all students have the equal opportunity to reach their full potential. Very ably supported by the vice-principal and other senior leaders, he has succeeded in raising the aspirations of both staff and students and in creating an ac...
The behaviour of students is good. The behaviour in corridors and around the academy is excellent. Students move calmly and purposefully, and are considerate and respectful, giving way to others as appropriate. Behaviour at lunchtime in the dining hall is impressive. Students are very mature, socialise well, and clear up after themselves, so that...
The school’s work to keep pupils safe and secure is outstanding. The systems leaders have developed to ensure the safeguarding of students are extremely robust. Appropriate processes are in place for the safe recruitment of staff and staff have all had up-to-date training on child protection, including current and topical issues, such as protecting...
Teaching over time is consistently good and students achieve well as a result. Most teachers have good subject knowledge and a clear understanding of what students need to do to make progress. They ensure students understand what they are learning and what they need to do to be successful. They ask probing questions, which encourage students to exp...
The sixth form is small but increasing in numbers. Achievement requires improvement because it is variable across different subjects and students do not always make good progress from their starting points. Students make better progress in vocational subjects than they do in academic subjects, particularly in mathematics and history. Leadership r...
Stockport Academy, located at Heathbank Road, Cheadle Heath, SK3 0UP, is a non-selective co-educational secondary school providing an inspiring and fulfilling education for local students. Founded in September 2007 as a replacement for Avondale High School, the academy caters to students aged 11–16, with approximately 869 pupils enrolled as ...
Stockport Academy believes in creating opportunity to succeed - providing an outstanding education for its students through a relentless pursuit of academic excellence. Students are also supported in identifying and developing character, in their lessons, around school, in after-school activity and in their lives within their local community.
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The academy strives to provide an ‘Education With Character’ – offering students the opportunity to develop leadership skills, self-belief and a love for learning both inside and outside of the classroom.
