Welcome to West Bromwich Collegiate Academy, a brand new Secondary Academy for the community.

At WBCA we are committed to an inclusive education for local students at every ability level, a rigorous grounding in academic fundamentals and equipping students for the future through teaching them relevant and cutting edge skills for the era in which they live.

Most importantly we believe that every student should be safe, happy, ambitious for themselves and respectful of all. We aspire to create students who are strong academically but also decent, upstanding people that the community can be proud of.

Our small but growing Academy opened in September 2019 and we are excited to welcome a third year group to the Academy this academic year. Phase 2 of our new build is now complete and students will benefit from brand new facilities in Science, Design, Physical Education and Music, not to mention a state-of-the-art interactive Immersive Suite. We consider it a great privilege to serve and support the children and families in our local community and look forward to making many more partnerships with families in the years to come

At WBCA we are committed to an inclusive education for local students at every ability level, a rigorous grounding in academic fundamentals and equipping students for the future through teaching them relevant and cutting edge skills for the era in which they live. Most importantly we believe that every student should be safe, happy, ambitious for themselves and respectful of all. We aspire to create students who are strong academically but also decent, upstanding people that the community can be proud of.

We Believe

We believe that a student from West Bromwich can absolutely be the equal of any other student, nationally or internationally, if they are given the opportunity and we believe it is our task to provide students with those opportunities both through the curriculum and through the extracurricular activities we will provide.

We believe students should create work of real quality and be able to take some of the work they have done each year and want to keep it for the rest of their lives. We believe that low value tasks lead to low value outcomes.

Finally, and most importantly, we believe that students are the centre of our Academy. Through the opportunities, care, quality and relationships that we will give them we will create students who are:

• Happy students, who feel their school and peers support them and want to come to school.
• Healthy students, both mentally and physically.
• Successful students, ambitious for themselves and others.
• Students who have strong aspirations and feel that they are capable of achieving them.
• Students with a sense of decency, respectful of others both within and beyond the Academy.
• Students with a sense of pride in their Academy, who want to be involved in all aspects of Academy life.
• Self motivated, inquisitive students, capable of independent study.
• Students who have a joy of learning and a wish to learn.
• Students who believe they can improve their skills and abilities through practice and hard work.
• Students who have strong and resilient coping mechanisms to deal with change.
• Students who are willing to take risks.
• Students who know how to stay safe outside of the Academy.

At WBCA we are looking for keen, enthusiastic employees who believe in making an outstanding Academy.

Who are We Looking For?

Starting a new Academy we are seeking staff with the following qualities:

• Staff who are caring, can form great relationships with students and their families and who are positive with students and look to get the best out of everyone.
• We want staff who are inspirational and engaging, willing to go the extra mile to give students fantastic experiences so that they want to come to every lesson, and looking to form great partnerships to bring the passion of their interests into the Academy.
• We want staff who are consistent, applying the Academy policies in a fair and even handed way to both staff and students.
• We want staff who set high standards in everything they do, be you teaching or nonteaching, looking to make the Academy an Outstanding place.
• We want staff who are supportive of the community and of each other, willing to share and lend a hand and to form a strong team ethos to make the Academy a great place to work.
• We want flexible multi taskers: as we will be a small but tight knit staff with only a small number of students we will all need to pitch in during the exciting years of expansion.
• We want staff who know that learning never stops and are committed to their own professional development, willing to learn and eager to develop new skills.
• Finally, we want dedicated and enthusiastic staff who are committed to all aspects of Academy life because they are committed to the ideals of the Academy and want to make it a special place for staff, students and parents.

Benefits of Working For Us

In response to the above we offer:

• Great opportunities for advancement: as a growing Academy we will have new opportunities year on year.
• A professional development programme to help staff move forward in their careers.
• A discreet care and advice and guidance line as we know that sometimes staff need support in their personal lives.
• A commitment to be as understanding and flexible as possible when challenges appear.
• The opportunity to work as part of a wider network of staff across a vibrant and growing Trust.
• The opportunity to be in at the ground floor to create the history of a new Academy and to listen to the ideas you have to make it something special.

West Bromwich Collegiate Academy is supported by Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust.

                                           Find out more about the Trust.