Old Moat Primary is a diverse school where all are welcome and all are able to develop the skills and knowledge required to be confident and successful learners. Through excellent teaching and a rigorous curriculum designed with our children in mind, we foster the learning habit while providing high quality support of children's individual needs. #All different, all achieving. Old Moat is a CLIC Trust school.

Our Old Moat ethos, #All different, all achieving, is what we are all about. We believe that every child can excel and with a blend of rigour and flexibility, we shape each child's learning to achieve the very best for them.

Our Old Moat curriculum is designed to equip all children with the knowledge and skills that they require to successfully navigate their way through life as residents of South Manchester and as active global citizens. We also want to develop custodians of the environment.

All aspects of school life are underpinned by our six Trust values of Responsibility, Respect, Resilience, Fairness, Empathy and Kindness. Children are taught how to keep themselves happy and safe in the real and virtual world. They learn to recognise how they should be treated and how they should treat others through the UNICEF Rights Respecting charter. We follow the JIGSAW PSHE curriculum to teach children a sense of self and others and give them the tools they need to take care of their wellbeing and that of others.

Our Trust name, Changing Lives in Collaboration, is behind everything we do to achieve excellence for all our children. 

Who are CLIC?

Some academies are sponsored or supported by an educational Trust who had no prior connection to the school. Our Trust, CLIC, has evolved out of our school communities and is currently led by Sally Lamb, the Interim Executive Principal. Mrs Lamb is held to account by the Board of Directors (who oversee finance and academic performance) most of which are existing school governors.

Each school has a local governing body, with representatives from the parent body, staff and the local community, including councillors. They work with Headteachers and pay close attention to the way in which the schools deliver the broad curriculum (not just Maths and English) and support the wellbeing of the children and staff.

Future Plans

One of the aims of the Trust is to work in collaboration with other schools in Greater Manchester and partners who have an interest in helping our children to achieve academic success and good, all-round development. For the past two years, our schools have worked with Dane Bank Primary School in Tameside which has seen great benefits from sharing expertise. Dane Bank officially joiend the CLIC Trust in November 2019.