About Our Academy

About Our Academy 

Oaklands Primary Academy is a vibrant and inclusive learning community for children aged 2 to 11 years. We are proud to provide a high standard of education within a caring and stimulating environment, where pupil numbers continue to grow year on year.

Our children are taught in mixed-ability classes and benefit from excellent facilities across two main buildings, each equipped with a central hall/gymnasium, safety-surfaced playgrounds, and shared creative spaces. The Academy is fully equipped with ICT resources, including wireless connectivity, laptops, and tablets, supporting modern, engaging teaching and learning.

We are also fortunate to be located at the heart of a beautiful, unspoilt valley, providing a rich natural environment ideal for outdoor learning and nature studies.

Parental involvement is highly valued at Oaklands. Our thriving Parents and Friends Association (PFA) plays a key role in school life, supporting fundraising efforts and helping us enhance the learning environment with additional resources and experiences. We strongly believe that our families are an integral part of our Academy and wider community.

As part of our commitment to developing the whole child, we have established a wide range of pupil responsibility roles to encourage leadership, independence, and pride in their school. Our carefully planned, progressive curriculum is broad, balanced, and continually evolving, with strong continuity across the Early Years, Key Stage 1, and Key Stage 2.

Our dedicated staff work collaboratively to ensure all children are supported and challenged to reach their full potential.

Our Vision Statement:

At Oaklands Primary Academy children strive to achieve their best in a secure and stimulating environment. We provide a happy, healthy community where everyone can develop confidence, respect for others and a love of learning. At the heart of everything we do are the ‘five Rs’:

• Resilience
• Respect
• Resourcefulness
• Responsibility
• Risk-taking.

Our Aims:

Our teaching, organisation and entire environment are based upon agreed aims and values which underpin the work of the Academy. These aims are:-

• To create a secure and caring atmosphere that encourages learning. We believe it is important that each child feels happy at our Academy and looks forward to being here.
• To plan the range of work we offer and the organisation of the Academy, to give children a stimulating and challenging environment in which they can grow intellectually, imaginatively, physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually.
• To monitor and assess the progress and ability of each child so we can establish his/her individual needs across the curriculum and match these needs – giving each child the chance to realise their full potential.
• To foster the child’s interest in the world around them and to develop a love of learning so that each child works with purpose, enjoyment and a pride in his/her achievements.
• To encourage children to develop lively, enquiring minds capable of a range of learning and thinking strategies, such as the ability to question; solve problems; gather, interpret and organise knowledge; think logically and make reasoned judgements; record and communicate information, at a level appropriate to their age and ability.

To deliver a curriculum which ensures children acquire and develop:

• both mental and physical skills and abilities
• concepts in all areas of the curriculum which will enable the child to organise knowledge and experience
• positive attitudes towards learning, experience, people, environment, and society.

To develop and maintain a climate of:

• co-operation, respect, understanding and confidence.
• initiative
• the ability to make informed choices
• leadership and self-discipline.

Through working together within the Academy community, we encourage children to develop positive moral values and qualities and become progressively more aware of themselves as responsible members of the Academy community. We ensure that the Academy environment is one within which the children feel valued as individuals, have confidence in their own capabilities and are encouraged to develop their own talents and interests as much as possible. In this way, each child is personally enriched and able to contribute to a changing and developing society. Every child is given equal opportunity to benefit from a broad and balanced curriculum, which actively involves children in their learning and promotes the highest possible standards of academic achievement.. We encourage children to respect others and promote high standards of behaviour and courtesy towards their peers and adults. This includes respect for everyone’s race, religion and culture, gender and physical ability.