Key features for students and the community

  • An outstanding Academy for East Howe families that would instill high educational aspirations with opportunities for all.
  • An all-ability, co-educationalAcademy for students aged 11 – 19 years old, with places for 900 students aged 11-16 years old, plus 150 post-16 places.
  • Specialising in English and Engineering & Design, thus opening up a wide range of opportunities for students of all abilities. The Academy would weave these subjects throughout the curriculum in an innovative and exciting way providing a stimulating learning environment.
  • Increasing post-16 opportunities, including Level 1 and 2 qualifications.
  • Meeting the individual needs of all young people of all abilities by employing specialist staff to co-ordinate programmes of support in collaboration with classroom teachers. 
  • At the heart of the community and part of an extended campus for learning.
  • The introduction of a strong new pastoral care system based on a well-formed house structure to provide consistent and tailored support for pupils and parents alike.
  • Academically able students could also be eligible for free places at Canford School in the Sixth Form, and there would be possibilities for shared attendance.

How the Academy would benefit the community

  • It would have a fully inclusive Admissions Policy, providing places for all students who wish to take up a place, regardless of ability, faith or no faith as well as serving students with special educational needs.
  • The Academy would open in its present buildings in 2010, with a proposed rebuild on the existing site, completed by 2013, to deliver an exciting range of new community facilities.
  • A focus on tackling the current school’s underperformance in literacy and numeracy through carefully chosen specialisms that are relevant and engaging.
  • Raising aspirations by offering a broader, more vocationally based curriculum well suited to routes into locally relevant employment opportunities.
  • Access to very strong links with local engineering companies and the College of Further Education, which the Sponsor would facilitate. The diverse curricular offer would include excursions to Bournemouth and Poole College for students in Years 9, 10 and post-16, who could either start courses they may wish to continue at the College or shadow degree students already there.