Oxford Spires Academy ensures that every student is well-educated, has the opportunity to attend university, and is able to lead a happy and fulfilled life.
Ours is a friendly, positive school that values each individual. We are highly collaborative and ensure that no child is left behind. We build strong rapport, both as teams of teachers and with our students. Students develop a strong sense of belonging and identity, and feel cared for and challenged through our vibrant House System.
Our students make strong progress. We are about outstanding learning and exceptional achievement. Every decision is made with the question in mind, will this help the students to learn better and achieve more? We believe in a relentless focus on supporting each individual to be the best that they can be.
We are a centre for excellence for English and literacy and believe in developing each students’ strong personal voice and confidence. We are clear that there are no excuses for underachievement. We aim to identify barriers that may be standing in the way of achievement, understand them in relation to our context and then focus on breaking them down, one by one. We specialise in knowing our community and how best to support all our learners.
From the start, we instil in our students a sense of integrity and confidence. Every adult and every student in our community is a role model; we all have the opportunity and responsibility to have a positive impact on the lives of others. We ‘walk the walk’ and create a positive learning environment in all that we do. We give trust and respect at all times and ensure that students have fun and are happy in their learning.
This ethos has established a success culture that we celebrate at every opportunity.
Our hard work - we achieve greatness by working hard and progress to achieve the next step.
Our integrity - we do the right thing because it is who we are and who we want to be.
Our excellence - we will be better today than we were yesterday. We will be better tomorrow than we were today.
Our vision is to be a beacon of excellence at the heart of our local community. We believe that all students are capable of making outstanding progress and attaining the highest level, whatever their starting point. We do not make excuses for our students - we firmly believe that there are no barriers to achievement that cannot be overcome by a determined and resilient student and a supportive school team.
We believe in providing exceptional education for local children. Our inspirational teaching and fantastic relationships provide and create a safe, supportive and challenging environment where students can flourish. We are relentless in our pursuit of the small things that we believe might have a big impact on our school culture, environment, ethos and our students’ attitude to learning. We set exemplary standards and aspirational goals. We believe in strong relationships, pride, community, family and support and every member of our staff is a role model to our young people.
We are extremely proud to be a multicultural, multi-faith community. We celebrate the diversity of our staff and student population, and we encourage students to celebrate their own heritage but equally to be proud British citizens. The bedrock on which our school community is built is the excellent relationships between staff and students and between students themselves.
The Department for Education states that all schools have a duty to promote British Values to ensure young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. These involve ‘democracy’, the ‘rule of law’, ‘individual liberty’, 'mutual respect’, and ‘tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs’.
At OSA, we recognise not only the importance of allowing students to flourish academically, but we also embrace our wider role in preparing them for their adult life beyond the formal examined curriculum. Part of our role in that preparation is ensuring that we promote and reinforce British Values to our students. British Values at OSA are embedded within our curriculum.
We also celebrate the British Values in the following ways...
A culture built upon freedom and equality, where everyone is aware of their rights and responsibilities:
The need for rules to make a happy, safe and secure environment to be in:
Recognising and understanding that we don’t all share the same beliefs and values. Respecting the values, ideas and beliefs of others whilst not imposing our own values:
Protection of your rights and the rights of others you work with.