Hill West is a vibrant school where children love to learn. Our school is truly inclusive and every opportunity is taken to teach pupils how to value and respect each other and develop a positive self-image and the belief that with hard work, determination and commitment anything can be achieved.
At Hill West Primary School Our mission here is to ensure that learning is fun and all children succeed. To do this we have focused on ensuring our curriculum, underpinned by the national curriculum, is exciting and challenging. Building a curriculum that is relevant and enjoyable for all of our pupils has been an exciting journey. It has meant that our pupils enjoy their lessons and make exceptionally good progress. Our end of Key Stage results are well above National Average and children leave Hill West very well prepared for the opportunities and challenges they will face in secondary school.
We have very high expectations for all of our pupils irrespective of their starting points, recognizing that they will be entering a highly competitive global marketplace in unprecedented times. Our staff is dedicated and hard-working, committed to an ethos of ongoing professional learning. We understand that an excellent school needs excellent staff.
We are innovative and creative and embraced the opportunity to form a learning partnership through academy status with other schools. Our multi-academy trust (also known as the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership) is a respected multi-academy trust of four primary schools, three secondary schools, five children's centers, and one teaching school, based in the West Midlands Coleshill, Erdington, and Four Oaks. We work together to ensure excellence. We all share a similar philosophy of education which puts the child at the heart of everything we do thereby ensuring that our children are better placed to meet the changing demands of the 21st Century. The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership’s academies are home to 4,500 children and more than 700 staff, including outstanding headteachers, specialists, and national leaders. The partnership has a strong moral purpose to improve education standards and achievements for all children in the community. By working in partnership, the ATLP can share resources, expertise and deliver quality education to make an even greater difference where it matters most.
We are a happy school at the heart of our community. Our children love to learn. They make excellent progress and attainment is well above the national average and has been for several years. Teaching is creative and lively and a robust program of continued professional development ensures that staff is always developing professionally. Leadership at all levels is ambitious and focused on continual improvement. Children have a real thirst for knowledge and want to learn. We understand that children's well-being and excellent physical and mental health are essential if they are going to succeed academically.
Our School Aims:
- Promote the awareness that each child is unique celebrating our similarities and differences. We are an inclusive school and work hard to ensure our pupils feel valued and respect others, regardless of background or beliefs. We regularly talk about and explore these issues through our work in RE, SMSC, and discussion about British Values.
- Develop challenging experiences and activities to foster individual self-esteem and confidence. A child's self-esteem affects their friendships with other children, their success in school, their ability to deal with problems, and their overall confidence, so we work hard to provide learning experiences that help children to develop resilience and self-belief.
- Develop in each child a real love of learning. When they are busy having fun, learning becomes natural and easy. Studies have shown that children learn best when the learning comes from a side-effect of a fun activity, and nearly all of our pupils say that they have to work hard but learning is fun.
- Provide a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum that shows progress and continuity from EYFS to the end of Key Stage Two so that each child meets their full learning potential. We are proud of our innovative curriculum, and we are passionate about making learning enjoyable and relevant.
At Hill West Primary School we are dedicated to the whole child and as such we:
- Develop and foster strong home-school relationships. We believe that developing excellent relationships between home and school as early as possible is vital to ensure each child reaches their full potential. We respond to parents quickly and make time for informal catch-ups about your child's needs and progress as well as scheduled Parent Consultations each term.
- Develop stimulating and inclusive learning environments. Our teachers know their learners they provide learning environments where it is safe to speak out, yet challenging enough to encourage new ways to look at, think about, and use skills.
- We work hard to enable all our pupils to become responsible citizens so they can make a positive contribution to society. We do this by explicitly promoting a set of core values which we share and celebrate.
