Angel Oak Academy

“Achievement through hard work; strength through kindness.” Angel Oak Academy is named after the oak tree on Peckham Rye in which artist and poet WILLIAM BLAKE saw his first vision in 1765 – ‘A tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.’ For the academy, it references the academic and creative roots of the local area and community whilst symbolising a protective environment in which children grow, flourish and sparkle.

Step Values

• Passion
• Urgency
• Positivity
• Commitment
• Aspiration

Our Aim

"To invest in the personal, academic and cultural capital of all academicians to ensure that they leave Angel Oak Academy with a range of experiences and knowledge that enables them to engage with all sections of society and community academically, intellectually and socially".

Our Key Learning Indicators (KLIs) represent the foundation of our curriculum. As we take a mastery approach to teaching and learning, we teach each of these objectives in great depth, and there is a large amount of subject knowledge and skill which sit behind each one.

At Angel Oak, we use Knowledge Organisers to provide children and parents with the key information that pupils will need to know in order to fully understand their class text. Children are quizzed regularly on these facts to ensure that they are committed to long-term memory.

At Angel Oak Academy, we aim to offer excellence and choice to all our children, whatever their ability or needs. We have high expectations of all our children. We aim to achieve this through the removal of barriers to learning and participation. We want all our children to feel that they are a valued part of our school community. Through appropriate curricular provision, we respect the fact that children:

• Have different educational and behavioural needs and aspirations
• Require different strategies for learning
• Acquire, assimilate and communicate information at different rates
• Need a range of different teaching approaches and experiences

Angel Oak Academy firmly believes in developing a strong partnership with parents/carers and that this will enable children and young people with SEND to achieve their potential. The school recognises that parents/carers have a unique overview of their child’s needs and how best to support them, and that this gives them a key role in the partnership. Parents/carers hold key information and have a critical role to play in their children’s education.

We aim, to enable every pupil to experience success, to keep an ongoing register of all children whom we consider to have special educational needs, to identify those children as early as possible, assess, record and regularly review their progress and needs, to provide learning programmes geared to their needs, to work collaboratively with parents, other professionals and support services, to ensure that parents or carers are able to play their part in supporting their child’s education, to involve the child, so as to encourage a move from dependent to independent learning.

The Core Values are

• Democracy - Pupils will have the opportunity to have their voices heard through our Pupil Parliament Team.
• Mutual Respect - Our school ethos and behaviour policy revolve around our PUPAC Core Values and pupils have been part of discussions and assemblies related to what this means and how it is shown.
• Tolerance of Those of Different Faiths and Beliefs - This is achieved through enhancing pupils understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society and by giving them opportunities to experience such diversity.
• The Rule of Law - The importance of Laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced throughout regular school days, as well as when dealing with behaviour, through school assemblies and PSHCE.
• Individual Liberty - Within school, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment.