Winton Academy Prospectus HIGH ACHIEVEMENT - HIGH STANDARDS Our Core Values: Integrity, Compassion, Courage Principal It is with great pleasure and much pride that I welcome you to Winton Academy. We are a highly successful and thriving 11-16 Academy who are incredibly proud to be part of the United Learning Group of schools which total over 60 in number. Winton Academy holds true to its motto of ‘High Achievement, High Standards’. We believe that every child matters and every lesson counts, creating well rounded citizens achieving academic excellence. Winton is a highly inclusive school that caters for the needs of all students. We ensure our most able students are stretched academically and students with special educational needs and disabilities are expertly the South West regional base for Handball. As supported, allowing the Academy to ensure the well as sporting opportunities, I am pleased best in everyone. to report our achievements in Expressive Arts, including our choir being named as Regional In 2016 Winton Academy achieved record GCSE Choir of the Year for the last four years running. results placing them as the top performing Students are also provided with a variety of high non-selective school in Bournemouth, Poole and quality off site educational trips to places such Christchurch. This is testament to the dedication as London, New York, France, Spain & Italy to and commitment of students, staff, parents name but a few. Extensive links are also well and the wider community to which I am deeply established with local businesses including JP proud and privileged to be a part of. Morgan and Barclays as well as local and Russell Winton Academy is unique through the decision Group universities. The enterprise scheme taken 3 years ago to co-locate the Academy with entitled WAGES is another exciting opportunity the neighbouring girl’s school named Glenmoor for students attending the Academy. Academy. The Academies remain separate At Winton, we positively encourage and value schools through lessons being taught in a single the support and contribution of parents/ sex environment and this will remain so for carers. There are a number of ways in which any new year 7 cohort. This has proved hugely you can become involved, including attending successful with resources, staffing expertise ‘Parent Forum’ meetings and joining the parent and curriculum opportunities now being fully association entitled SWAG (Society Winton utilised for the benefit of all students at the & Glenmoor). Please have a look at our ‘PTA Academies. Co-location has been seen by all SWAG’ tab on the website for further details. stakeholders as offering the ‘best of both’ which I believe provides our students with the best Parent View is an independent and nationally possible chance of educational success. Our recognised way parents / carers can share their recent Ofsted report recognised the success views on the school their child attends. 98% of this co-location describing the student’s of responses to parent view state they would behaviour as: highly recommend sending their son to Winton Academy with the same figure stating the “Students behave exceptionally well around the school is well led and managed. We are very site” proud of the schools standing in the community Particular praise was afforded in our recent and parental perception about Winton. Our aim Ofsted report to the student’s behaviour and is to continuously improve and never accept the attitude towards learning; the leadership and job is ever done. management of the Academy; and achievement I hope you find the information in this in a number of different subject areas. prospectus useful and please do not hesitate Additional quotes from the report are listed to contact the Academy if you wish to organise below; a tour and see for yourself the excellent work “The Principal and senior leaders are passionate being done by the outstanding students who in their pursuit of excellence for all students” attend Winton. If you would like to be kept up to date with developments at Winton, “Learning is characterised by exceptionally good then I recommend following us on twitter and relationships between staff and students” accessing the weekly Academies’ newsletter on As an organisation, we are ‘values-based’ and the excellent and continually updated Winton expect everyone to work to our core values of Academy website – www.glenmoorandwinton. integrity, compassion and courage. Students org.uk are able to access a huge number of extra- curricular opportunities across the Academy. I am hugely proud of our Sports Academies at Mr Ben Antell Winton in Rugby, Football, Cycling and we are Principal Richard Coe, Stuart Ingram and Rachel Hesketh, It is with great pleasure that growth of the academies over that time. I welcome you to Glenmoor Glenmoor and Winton Academies are often and Winton Academies. I described as an exciting place to be a part have been Vice Principal for of; I personally love the fact that I never three years having moved stop learning and developing my own skills. from an “outstanding” This is due to a very thorough professional Grammar School in Kent and development programme. Having co-located I have been immensely three years ago, our students are able to access impressed with the quality, skill and total all the best resources and opportunities across commitment of the staff in assuring the best both academies. It has certainly created a great possible outcomes for our students. learning environment for students, both in and As Vice Principal of Glenmoor and Winton out the classroom. Academies I oversee the quality of teaching and learning across the Academies which is a role I enjoy My role as Vice Principal is to ensure that every immensely. We have made great strides in the last student who joins us has the opportunity to few years with the quality of our teaching including succeed and achieve the best possible outcomes a strong focus on developing thinking skills in the during their time with us. Here, every student classroom. By focusing on developing a “toolkit” of counts. We know that it can be the smallest of thinking strategies, students are better equipped to: things that can lead to the greatest of outcomes tackle difficult problems; develop greater analytical and we are not afraid of hard work. I am always and evaluative skills; work more effectively with humbled by the commitment of students and others; and above all improve independent learning staff to ensuring the best for everyone. and increase student resilience. Our staff are highly committed to this long-term strategy and it is at the Welcome to Glenmoor heart of our 5 year vision. and Winton Academies. I have recently joined the Glenmoor and Winton Academies offer a wonderful learning environment for young people. Our academies in September academic results are among the best in the county 2015. I have thoroughly but we offer much more besides. Our careers enjoyed my time whilst at and enterprise provision is of high quality as is the academies and have the provision for sport and the Creative Arts. We felt privileged to be offer a unique “best of both” opportunity through part of such a successful academy. I am proud our single sex education and co-location which to say that I work at Glenmoor and Winton enables students to mix outside of the classroom Academies. environment. My role as Vice Principal is to ensure that every student can learn in a disruptive free Welcome to Glenmoor environment and we support all of our students and Winton Academies. on their journey. We want our students to be I have been privileged to fully prepared for their next phase of education work with the students, and be committed to achieving their very best. staff, parents and Along with leading personal development, governors of these two behaviour and welfare I work on ensuring that academies for a number students are tracked effectively whilst at the of years and it has been academies and then students are given the hugely rewarding to be part of the success and required intervention to ensure they fulfil their potential. Jamie Handitye, Head Boy I have been given the great thoroughly enjoyed a range of activities such as privilege of occupying physical education, drama and maths which all the role of Head Boy for unify students and allow them to feel secure in this academic year. I am the academies. delighted to be working The academies not only offer many opportunities alongside and enthusiastic for students to enjoy themselves but also provide prefect team to maintain an exceptional educational experience. My goal the high standards for this year is to encourage every student to throughout the academies. produce their very best work which will bring Over my time at the academies, I have about outstanding achievement. Student Entitlement Winton Academy seeks to give students an choices that will start in year 10. The subjects outstanding educational experience. The available are vast and varied to meet the needs Academy is acutely aware that every young of all students. They include: person gets ‘one shot’ at education and we must make it the very best for everyone. Students • Triple Science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) will be given a huge range of opportunities • Physical Education & Elite Sports Programme across their time at the Academy and we pride • Geography ourselves on providing something for everyone and drawing out each and every young person’s • History unique talents and subsequent achievements. • Modern Foreign Languages including French, Outlined below is a snapshot of what each year Spanish & German at the Academy will focus around. • Art & Technology subjects including Electronic Products, Resistant Materials, Textiles, Graphic By the end of Year 7 students will have Design, Art and Photography actively participated in a range of events that • Expressive Arts to include Music, Drama and will establish the building blocks for making Dance future choices, based on self-development and career exploration.