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"Welcome to Ilminster Avenue E-ACT academy. My name is Jon Arthur and it is a privilege to be the Executive Headteacher of this fantastic school. We are situated in Knowle and the academy is a real community with staff, children and parents all working closely together.

We strongly believe that a varied curriculum is the best way to engage and motivate all of our pupils. We do this by making links across the curriculum, creating wow opportunities and using expertise from the local community. We want all of our pupils to develop a lifelong love of learning. We believe this is created through experiences, challenge, a desire to always get better and a journey to independence. We believe that the success of all our pupils comes from a shared vision from all members of the academy and the wider community and we aim to make links whenever we can to create a culture for learning and opportunities to thrive and grow. Children here love learning and leave us more than ready for the next part of their academic journey.

We want the children to know that the smallest voice can make the biggest change. We want the children to become accustomed to asking questions as change and evolution does not happen by doing what has always been done. We want the children to not be lead by national, or media induced stereotypes and to form their own perspective of the knowledge we give. The purpose of this is to inspire the children to make positive contributions to their community through carefully planned career centred activities.

We are lucky to be part of the E-ACT multi-academy trust. We work very closely with five other E-ACT schools in Bristol and this has helped enormously to develop teaching standards in our academy. There is a wealth of expertise to tap into and our Regional Education Director, Matthew Flannigan, discusses school improvement with all six schools on a weekly basis.

We offer wrap around care to parents and carers with our breakfast and after school provision. There is a wide selection of after school clubs for pupils to further their interests in sport, arts and other curriculum areas."

Jon Arthur

Executive Headteacher

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Our Ethos and Values:

READY

Being Ready is about being in the Green Zone and ready to do your best learning. Try your best when things are hard. Learning from all of our mistakes. It’s ok to try and fail but the main failure is not trying at all. We want Ilminster to be a resilient place to learn where children are ready to take risks in their learning and ask questions to understand themselves and the world they live in.

RESPECTFUL

Is about living life being good people. Being polite, kind and courteous people. Treating everyone the same and accepting we are all different and that that is what makes us brilliantly unique. We want all of the pupils in Ilminster to leave knowing what it means to be a good person and a good member of the community.

SAFE

We encourage our pupils to keep safe at all times throughout the day. Keeping safe allows children to look forward to being in an encouraging environment that promotes social and creative learning.

Our community includes over 18,000 pupils and 2,300 teachers and non-teaching professionals across the country.

What it means to be part of E-ACT

As an E-ACT academy we share ideas with other academies in the trust in ways other schools may not be able to. Our pupils and staff also feel part of something much bigger.

E-ACT academies also have support from people across the trust who help us to make things even better for our children.

An E-ACT Academy in Birmingham, E-ACT Heartlands Academy, was ranked one of the best secondary schools in the country and was named School of the Year at the Times Educational Supplement schools awards in 2020.

Think big, show team spirit, do the right thing

We believe that young people should never be held back from achieving great things.

By encouraging them to think big and believe that anything is possible, by showing them the importance of team spirit and by supporting them to carefully think through decisions to do the right thing, we know that every one of our pupils can realise their full potential.

At E-ACT, we have an excellent network of support and educational expertise across our 28 academies to deliver the very best education to our pupils. We have 2,500 colleagues who each play a vital role in educating our 18,000 pupils.

Delivering high level education to our academies

There is great scope to develop your career at E-ACT. Being part of a large trust means you have access to a wide variety of training and resources. Most importantly, as well as the pride in teaching our pupils, you will feel part of something that goes far beyond the four walls of an academy. You can make a big impact to many lives!

Delivering key services to our academies

Our trust is comprised of people who share a great passion for our academies. Being part of a trust means you can work with like-minded people from different skillsets such as:

• Governance
• Finance and procurement
• Estates and facilities
• Marketing and communications
• Human resources

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