The Academy of St Nicholas

Welcome to ST.NICHOLAS. We are really looking forward to working with all of our students, staff, parents and the wider community. We are totally committed to ensuring the best possible outcomes for all of our students.

Our mission is that the Academy is the heartbeat of the local community. For example, we open our doors to parents and careers by offering courses to help develop the area’s entrepreneurial spirit. We are also committed to providing local residents with the facilities to start clubs and community groups and engage students outside classrooms hours.

This is a reflection of the inclusive, respectful and Christian values that underpin all that we do at The Academy of Saint Nicholas. We are lucky to have the Diocese and Archdiocese of Liverpool sponsoring us, ensuring our students are well rounded people who will be valued in both the working place and in the community.

As an Academy, we have recently carried out a full curriculum review of our provision for a roll-out in September. Our aim is to deliver a curriculum that is inclusive, relevant and progressive for all learners.

In support of the Academy’s mission, the Academy is committed to the development of confident, independent and responsible students who are emotionally and spiritually strong, welcoming and tolerant of all cultures and communities and committed to the stewardship of the environment.

Our Academy Values
The Academy of St Nicholas is a welcoming, calm and purposeful Academy where everyone feels valued, supported and challenged. Our Academy is a place where students’ desire for learning and achievement is met by the passionate commitment of all the staff to the The Academy of St Nicholas

Each half term we support a particular charity and we try to ensure that these include local, international, Christian and secular charities such as Nugent Care, Alder Hey and the Trussell Trust (Foodbank). There may be other one-off appeals throughout the year for a particular crisis or event within our community. Students are always keen to be involved in planning our charity events and I am continually amazed at the generosity of our community to give to others in need. It’s been great to have representatives from some of these charities come to school and talk about their work, and students have also been able to visit certain charities, such as the local Foodbank, to see first-hand the impact of their generosity.

Community
Our local community is really important to us at the Academy of St Nicholas. We have close links with many of the local primary schools and I regularly visit these to lead Collective Worship and build relationships with students. Covid has prevented this recently but we love to put on events to serve our wider community, such as our Christmas lunch, busking at Garston market and holiday clubs for younger children. As a school we try to help those in need in our community through food parcels, Christmas hampers and signposting to further support. We have fantastic links with local churches of various denominations including All Saints, St Aidan’s and St Ambrose in Speke, St Michael’s and Long Lane in Garston and Freedom Church in Childwall. Members of these churches, and others, form a 30-strong Chaplaincy Team who support the school through volunteering, prayer and crisis funding.