ARK Priory Primary Academy

At Ark Priory Primary Academy. Our mission, to ensure that all children can attend university or pursue a career of their choice, is incredibly important and something that we keep at the forefront of our minds every day, through our academy values of ‘Explore, Endeavour and Excel’ – today we lay the foundations for tomorrow’s success.

We believe that all children can succeed with the right support, examples and encouragement and by instilling this belief into our pupils, their learning like ours, will never stop. Through sharing in these values, in my time at Ark Priory, we have been building on the existing achievements and developing the school so that all Ark Priory pupils succeed and achieve their full potential in all areas of the curriculum. As part of the Ark Priory Academy community, we all play a role in supporting our children to reach their full potential and beyond, to develop and grow to become well-rounded and conscientious citizens of the world that offer a positive contribution to society and always have the ‘courage to fly’.

This ambitious vision for Ark Priory pupils starts with being an active, engaged and committed community to the academy and to pledge to the high expectations that the academy sets for academic success, language, engagement, behaviour, dress and attendance, because these are the first layer of building blocks of your child’s future success. Ark Schools stand for:

• High expectations
• Exemplary behaviour
• Excellent teaching
• More time for learning
• Depth before breadth
• Knowing every child

Our children arrive at Ark Priory at an early stage in their development and experience i.e., with their whole lives ahead of them. It is our responsibility to encourage, develop and inspire them to achieve early successes that are maintained in secondary school, university and beyond. Our values help us to achieve this.

• Exploration - We encourage all pupils to push and develop themselves through new experiences. Once we develop courage, independence and curiosity we embrace the unknown and seek answers.
• Endeavour - Hard work and self-improvement are required to reach your goals and the sense of satisfaction and reward that follows endeavour requires courage and risk taking – effort and progress are recognised more than just outcomes.
• Excellence - The culmination of exploration and endeavour – be courageous, challenge yourself, try your best and you will achieve excellence.

Ark Priory Primary Academy has at its core the pursuit of the highest standards possible in education. We believe in high aspirations, high challenges and high achievement for all. Through our extended curriculum and community life we seek to meet the needs of the whole child. Our motto, Courage to fly! is at our core. If children are confident and willing to take risks to improve, to learn new things and to embrace new experiences they will be resilient and equipped to deal with life and to be both successful and happy. In fact, we are committed to playing our role in helping our children play their full part in society. We will do whatever it takes to provide our children with the determination, skills and knowledge to attend university or to follow an appropriate career path of their choice.

We believe in the potential of every child who joins Ark Priory Primary Academy and we will strive to create a positive learning environment in which our pupils:

• Develop enthusiastic and enquiring minds
• Question and present rational arguments
• Adopt an independent, positive and engaged approach to learning
• Challenge themselves and others to achieve excellence

We will provide high quality learning and teaching experiences that take into account the intellectual, social, physical, ethical and spiritual development of our pupils.