West Drayton Academy provides an outstanding education for the children. We will work together and communicate well, enforce standards rigorously, ensure that our curriculum is enriching, and promote our values at all times.’
As parents, carers, and teachers, we lead your child’s learning. At school, successful learning derives from effective teaching, stimulating environments, discipline, and good attendance. At the same time, parents and carers provide an equally important program of learning. Exposing children to new words, taking them to visit new places and experience new things, facilitating daily discussion, and supporting your child’s reading for meaning will enhance understanding, language, vocabulary, problem-solving, creativity, and communication.
Children need reassurance and encouragement from parents and teachers, home and school. Working together, we can augment achievement both academically and socially. We place children’s social and emotional development at the heart of our work. We are a proud school with established values and attentiveness to ongoing improvement. Within our community, we expect everybody to have high expectations - to demonstrate self-belief, respect, and commitment. Personally, for the last ten years, it has been a privilege to be part of the West Drayton community. The school is here to serve you - our families and children. Thank you for taking the time to read the report.
‘From Self-Confidence to Achievement’ is our school motto. This is the foundation for all that we seek to do as a school. We believe that every member of the community matters and together we can achieve more. We have a richly diverse school family and the times we spend working and celebrating together are some of our most precious.
At West Drayton Academy, our curriculum aims to promote children's well-being and development in all areas: spiritual-moral cultural mental, and physical and to prepare children for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of later life.
To do this, we have designed children's learning through challenges expressed as questions. At the start of each topic, children consider how they will complete the challenge by identifying further questions that they would like to explore. At the end of each learning challenge, children share their discoveries in a variety of ways. These include a production an invitation to parents/carers to share in a presentation with food a booklet giving a presentation to another class and holding an exhibition.
To bring learning to life, we plan rich learning experiences for all year groups. We want our children to experience a wide range of learning opportunities such as: visit a farm go to the seaside hear music performed live meet an author, poet, musician, artist, scientist, engineer, etc visit a museum perform on a stage sing in a choir volunteer support a charity.
At West Drayton Primary School, all children are equally valued and respected. We are committed to offering an inclusive curriculum to ensure the best possible progress for all of our pupils whatever their needs or abilities. We recognize that many children will have SEN at some time during their school life and believe that children can be helped to overcome their difficulties if they are provided with a differentiated, broad, and balanced curriculum and appropriate intervention. We use a range of approaches to meet the needs of pupils with SEN including differentiation of the curriculum, scaffolding e.g. through the use of visual support or concrete apparatus, small group work, 1:1 support, or teaching.
At West Drayton Primary School, we are proud of how children embrace school life in a positive and caring manner. Even though school behavior is consistently very good, we want to become outstanding - always striving for excellence. Forging positive relationships combined with unchanging classroom routines are key components towards engaging the pupils and ultimately helping them to learn.
