Winton Community Academy

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Winton Community Academy is a rapidly improving 11-16 school situated in Andover in the centre of Hampshire, a short commute from Winchester, Salisbury and many picturesque Hampshire villages.

We are an average sized school and offer tailored learning opportunities and a creative curriculum which meets the needs of our whole school community.

Winton has many strengths and people who visit are always impressed with our outstanding students, excellent facilities and calm purposeful learning environment.

Winton aims to provide an outstanding education for all of the local children. What we want is an outstanding Andover education system for Andover children. The vision needs to be that all three phases of education in Andover are all excellent. Winton is very much at the centre of this vision.

The most important part of any school is the quality of the teaching. When walking around the corridors at Winton you will see students engaged in their learning, being challenged to think.  The expectation is to have a positive mind set, an 'I can...' attitude to their learning. Rather than thinking I can't do this students are encouraged to think 'I can't do this...yet'. Classrooms are positive because of the positive relationships between students and teaching staff.  Expectations are high, with regular and meaningful homework and innovative and engaging classwork which embraces new ideas and new technologies.

Our Curriculum

Our vision for the delivery of a broad and balanced 11-19 curriculum is founded on the following key principles:

• Students can progress at their own pace but with staff ensuring that there is always pace and challenge
• Technologies e.g. ICT will be as available as electricity and seen as another utility, which will facilitate learning in different contexts;
• Personalised learning will be a reality with a wide ranging curriculum, which provides far more choice and less prescription;
• Learning experiences will be coherent, integrated and not fragmented with an emphasis on learning and skill acquisition and transferal;
• The curriculum will develop lifelong learners who will be able to adapt to take up jobs in the future, which do not presently exist;
• The curriculum will embrace wider curriculum opportunities that bring learning to life in vivid fashion;
• The curriculum will reflect the values and beliefs outlined previously: personal development is integral to the outcomes of the curriculum and success measures for this curriculum.

Ofsted

Winton was recently inspected by Ofsted and for the second time running has been recognised as a “Good” school.

The report sets out how the school has high aspirations for all their pupils, preparing them for the next stages of life with a curriculum that is “relevant and ambitious.” Inspectors noted that staff at Winton appreciated leaders’ efforts to help manage workloads.

The school has also been praised for their decisive response to the challenges students face post Covid, including forging positive relationships with pupils to better help their behaviour and personal development. The report recognises the efforts to create a healthy school culture, by creating a “strong system for support” that helps to improve all areas of school life.

Other highlights from the report include:

• Leaders are aspirational for all pupils and have ensured that there is an ambitious and rich curriculum that is well organised and sequenced logically. Pupils are taught by enthusiastic and specialist teachers who present knowledge well.
• There are high expectations of pupil behaviour. Pupils feel safe and bullying is not tolerated. There are appropriate structures in place to feedback pupil responses to behavioural concerns.
• Leaders are especially passionate about reading, with effective support on hand to make sure gaps in pupil knowledge are filled. The new library supports pupils reading for pleasure and pupils have frequent opportunities to explore and engage with varied and challenging reading.
• SEND pupils feel involved in both subject work at school as well as broader personal development in school life.
• Leaders have placed great emphasis on pupils’ personal development. Careers and healthy relationships are of the utmost importance, with the opportunities to meet, “multiple partners from the world of work, apprenticeships and post-16 education.”
• The report commends Winton’s range of extracurricular experiences, with inspectors noting how, “pupils gleefully spoke to inspectors about a recent photography trip to New York.”

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Staff Benefits

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences  that will support you on your professional learning journey with Lift Schools.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme).  Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our Lift Schools Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical health and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.