Welcome to The Boulevard Academy where providing the best support and opportunities for all of our students is at the heart of everything that we do.

With our students, we create a positive learning culture that is highly aspirational and supportive. Our Academy is a family and we work together to guide students along their journey to becoming life-long learners and developing the necessary skills and experiences they need for their bright futures. Staff at The Boulevard Academy work closely with students to identify and develop their dreams and ambitions. It is our honour to then work with them and equip them with the tools to realise these dreams.

Janice Mitchell

Principal

Our Mission Statement - what are we trying to achieve?

To work with all our students to assist them to develop the high expectations, academic and life skills that will best help them to be successful. Fostering personal confidence and happiness, we will challenge students to take responsibility for building a better world for the next generation.

Our Vision & Ethos

We demand the very highest standards from our students and staff. In return, we expect all students to gain the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to be able to progress beyond the age of 16 to further and higher education, training and employment at the level to which they can aspire.

Our students will leave the Academy well equipped in the life skills that they will need to be successful in whatever pathway they choose.

The need for teachers and parents/carers to develop children’s personal skills to live in a rapidly changing world has been recognised in educational research. It forms the basis of UNESCO’s drive to teach global citizenship skills to children and young people starting with early years education. It argues that education today requires a specific focus on education which can develop the knowledge and understanding, skills, values and attitudes learners need for securing a world which is more just, peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable. In addition, education requires the development of certain soft skills:

‘social skills such as empathy and conflict resolution, communication skills and aptitudes for networking and interacting with people of different backgrounds, origins, cultures and perspectives; and behavioural capacities to act collaboratively and responsibly.’ (Keevey, J. and Chakroun, B. (2015) 

Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust was created in September 2016 and now includes 3 secondary and 7 primary schools.

Our aim, underpinned by co-operative values and an ethical approach to leadership, is to inspire our students and staff and bring rapid and sustained improvement to the communities we live and work in.