"Parents and our wider community can be confident that every one of our children is safe, cherished, encouraged and brilliantly taught. Equality and inclusion is at the heart of all that we do.

The professional team wholeheartedly recognise that our children are wonderful and deserve nothing but the very best.

Ryecroft Academy benefits extensively from being a part of The GORSE Academies Trust which is passionately committed to providing an exceptional education to some of the most disadvantaged pupils in the Leeds city region.

As an academy, we are extremely fortunate to be in receipt of significant capital development investment which is transforming our building and site into a first class, charming and vibrant school.

It is a privilege to lead Ryecroft Academy and I am proud of our identity and the unique character of the school. I hope this is successfully captured in our vision.

If you would like to find out more about the remarkable things that are taking place at the academy then please do contact us. We would love for you to visit us to see the impact of our exceptional work first hand."

Helen Townsley | Principal

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At Ryecroft Academy we strive to ensure that our pupils are confident, self-assured learners who attend well, are proud of their school and sincere in the value that they place on their education.

Their impeccable behaviour for learning and conduct reflects their own self-driven determination to take every advantage of the opportunities that become available to them each day both during the school day and outside of the school day. Strong behaviour for learning also reflects the school’s effective strategies to promote high standards and is a direct consequence of the engaging and diverse curriculum.

Our culture, which seeks to embrace every member of our community, sees our pupils demonstrating genuine care for one another. We aim for our pupils to regard the achievements and successes of others as highly as their own.

It is of paramount importance to us that our pupils are safe and secure at all times, free from bullying and empowered to flourish, achieve and prosper.

We will demonstrate our commitment to achieving our vision and aims by:

Celebrating pupils’ effort and achievements, no matter how big or small.

Promoting and celebrating individual and collaborative team effort and achievement.

Promoting the importance of excellent attendance and punctuality.

Dealing with bullying, inclusive of HATE incidents, swiftly and effectively.

Creating a positive environment that promotes pupils’ health and well-being.

Using the curriculum effectively to teach pupils about how to be healthy, the importance of celebrating, embracing and admiring difference and diversity and how to stay safe, including when using the internet.

Leaders and professionals at the academy have established a very clear and well researched vision for the curriculum and are committed to ensuring that the curriculum offer is highly inclusive, ambitious, comprehensive and coherent. The full range of core and foundation subjects are carefully and systematically mapped so that children end their primary years having mastered a wide range of concepts, procedures and skills that fuel a thirst for learning, prepare them for future study and develop an understanding of the world in which they live, enabling them to be educated and contributing citizens with a firm appreciation for human creativity and achievement.

Key drivers, developed through consultation with a range of stakeholders, are tailored thoughtfully to the contexts of the school and underpin its design. Communication, aspiration and community, combined with the development of pupils’ core skills in reading, mathematics and writing feature strongly. The curriculum brings the academy’s ethos to life and it cohesively permeates all aspects of the school’s character. Every opportunity is taken to make meaningful contributions to the quality of education and the curriculum.

The curriculum successfully develops cultural capital as it is aspirational in the depth and wealth of knowledge, understanding and skills that children experience. Curriculum content and coverage has been chosen to embellish children’s understanding of their lives and take them to new destinations; creative themes give children the chance to access powerful knowledge that will enrich their own understanding of their locality and their place in the world, or to develop a working understanding of the fundamental concepts of subjects that they would not otherwise have chance to explore. Over the course of their seven years at Ryecroft Academy, children will experience several visits and visitors, taking them to places beyond their immediate environment.

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GORSE has a well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.

Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within GORSE. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.

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