A short walk from the city centre, New Islington is in a vibrant and exciting location next to wetlands and the Marina.

Our school is a warm, encouraging and supportive place for children. We set high expectations for our pupils’ educational outcomes and have high standards of behaviour within the context of an exciting and engaging curriculum taught by motivated and happy staff. Our pupils are eager and enthusiastic about learning and exploring, about their friendships, about coming to school. Our school is attractive – both inside and outside – so that adults and children alike enjoy being there. Our school is involved in the community, and parents are proud to send their children here.

We have an amazing team of adults who work closely with the children and parents to ensure that each and every child has a first class educational experience. Adults and children join together to find things out, discover talents and enjoy new experiences. We help each other to find new friends and to develop new enthusiasms.

We do this through well planned, stimulating lessons; learning at New Islington takes place both inside and outside of the classroom, as we know that children benefit from a wide range of experiences. We do this through providing an exciting range of extra-curricular clubs. We do this through by being there for the children, listening to them and taking the time to really get to know them in a caring environment.

Mrs Tabitha Smith,

Headteacher

Our Vision

To empower our children to approach all challenges and opportunities presented to them, with confidence and resilience.

New Islington pupils leave primary school well-equipped for the next stage of their education, with a firm foundation of knowledge, understanding and skills, and a love of learning.

We do this by developing learners who:

• Understand the importance of our core values of respect, resilience, kindness, and cooperation.
• Celebrate the cultural, religious, and social diversity of our school community.
• Are enthusiastic, who are determined to excel, who rise to new challenges and embrace new experiences.
• Are confident, who have a sense of self-respect, who feel secure and safe, and who have a sense of well-being – both physical and emotional.
• Are responsible and accountable, who understand their role within our school and the wider community.

We do this through:

• Having a common understanding of what ‘excellence’ looks like here at New Islington, and striving for nothing short of excellence in everything that we do.
• Ensuring that our children are safe and secure at all times, and that all adults fully understand the role that they play in safeguarding our children.
• Encouraging the school community (adults, children, parents, and governors) to show high levels of trust, respect and understanding, and to promote the school values.
• Developing a curriculum for excellence: ambitious, aspirational, relevant, and varied – a curriculum that supports all our pupils regardless of ability.
• Delivering this curriculum within a high quality and safe environment.
• Having high expectations for positive behaviour, supporting and encouraging those with additional needs through restorative approaches.
• Having a strong and well informed Governing Board.

We are part of the Co-op Academies Trust, a group of academies united by the values underpinning the co-operative movement; self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity.

Our sponsors work with us to support the Academy in making key decisions and in improving standards for everyone. Representatives from the Co-op sit alongside parents/carers, staff and other members of our governing body.

The Co-op’s commitment to education is nothing new, when the co-operative movement started in the mid-nineteenth century, it provided educational activities for members and their families. To this day, education is one of the underpinning principles of the movement globally.

The Co-op has a clear purpose of “championing a better way of doing business for you and your communities”. It is owned and governed by its members and membership is open to everyone who shares the Co-op values and principles.

We show these values by working together for everyone’s benefit, and playing a full part in the community. As an ethical leader, Co-op exists not just to serve its communities but to help them live their best lives.