Cedar Mount Academy

Cedar Mount Academy opened in August 2012 as part of the Bright Futures Educational Trust. The Trust includes six other schools, including two local primary schools and co-located Melland High School. Cedar Mount Academy is working with our Trust schools to provide a world class education to open up real choices for all our young people. The formal partnership and collaboration means that our students and staff have outstanding support from across the Trust to help them to excel. This will ensure we build on our recent success and achieve our aim of becoming one of the very best schools in Manchester.

Cedar Mount Academy is a purposeful, happy and dynamic community. As a result, not only are we continuing to drive up standards in all areas of our academy, we are also reviewing our curriculum to ensure it provides the academic depth and rigour to ensure our students are given every opportunity to succeed.

Cedar Mount Academy has the highest expectations of its staff and students and we expect all members of our community to look smart, behave well, try hard and achieve their personal best in all that they do. We also want our students to be happy and successful and we work hard to ensure all students are provided with the right support to succeed.

All admissions to secondary schools in Manchester are overseen and managed centrally by the Local Authority (LA). You may apply for a place for your child at any Manchester school.All parents/carers are asked to make their application on a standard form known as the Standard Application Form (SAF), which is available from the Manchester City Council. An admission pack, including the SAF and a booklet called ‘Secondary School Admissions Information for Parents’ will be sent to you.

Cedar Mount Academy provides an innovative, forward thinking programme of study that enables all students to succeed, achieve and, in turn, realise their full potential.The Key Stage 3 curriculum builds on students’ achievements in Year 6 to develop the breadth and depth of their knowledge, skills and understanding.The focus within the Key Stage 3 curriculum is; reinforcing learning skills, establishing and maintaining high expectations, developing students’ enthusiasm for learning, raising the level of challenge and developing self-motivation by providing them with a wide range of learning opportunities including social, moral, spiritual and cultural enrichments.As students move into Year 10, we build on their previous progress and develop a range of opportunities that will benefit them, taking into account their individual needs at Key Stage 4.

Cedar Mount Academy’s values are hard work, respect and aspiration. These three characteristics underpin everything we are trying to achieve. We believe students need to be encouraged to work hard and be shown how important it is for them to always try their best. The students need to show respect to their peers and elders, with the teachers active in modelling this behaviour. Finally having aspirations is promoted in all areas of the academy, with students encouraged to aim high and achieve their goals.

The School Improvement Board are responsible for the strategic vision of the academy and for supporting the Principal and his staff in achieving that vision.The main purpose of the School Improvement Board is to provide support and challenge to the Academy, on behalf of BFET. It will do this through providing strategic direction, promoting high standards and educational achievement and support the Principal to ensure that all the work co-ordinated (Teaching and Learning, Curriculum and Pastoral) is having a positive impact and is underpinned by a core data set.

A wide variety of subjects are considered at each meeting, including the Principal’s report, reports from members of the Senior Leadership Team and, very importantly, the approval of all major policies which underpin the running of Cedar Mount Academy.

At Cedar Mount Academy we welcome everyone into our community. We endeavour to make available inclusive provision to ensure that all students, including those students identified with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), can enjoy and benefit from a broad and balanced education with access to the National Curriculum at an appropriate level, so that they may achieve their full potential. We are committed to narrowing the attainment gap between SEND and non-SEND students and offer a range of personalised learning interventions/opportunities to support this. We are very proud of all our students and their achievements.

We are committed to providing a planned programme of impartial careers education and information, advice and guidance and work alongside our careers advisor One Education.One Education believe passionately that inspirational and aspirational careers advice and guidance has the power to transform the lives of young people.

Activities are differentiated and personalised to ensure progression in their learning and development, and to strengthen their motivation, aspirations and attainment at school. Cedar Mount Academy provides Careers Education and Information in many guises. This is available to parents, carers and students, to help them navigate their way through the many academic and vocational choices they will make during their time at Cedar Mount Academy and beyond.