Our Vision and Values

“Ambitious for Excellence”

Uplands Academy Vision:

At Uplands Academy, it is our vision to provide the best possible education for all our students and to be an exceptional educational establishment, both locally and nationally.

• Our curriculum for our students is rightly ambitious - it is as broad as it is balanced. It has a strong academic core which, where relevant, includes vocational and technical ambitions and wide-ranging choices. Our curriculum maximises educational opportunities and prepares our students to be socially and economically successful. It is expertly planned and implemented. Subsequently, students develop keen interests, a lifelong passion for learning and an impressive, coherent, and cumulative understanding of the world. All of this means that they consistently achieve highly and are prepared for future success and happiness in education, employment, or training.
• We have uncompromisingly high expectations for the quality of education that our students receive, including the most disadvantaged and those with SEND. There is no room for complacency.
• We support and encourage our school community – we expect everyone to Make their MARK academically by being motivated, articulate, resilient and knowledgeable, and socially by having excellent manners, being accepting, respectful and kind. These expectations are reflected in the exceptional relationships that exist between our board of trustees, staff, students, parents, carers and the wider community.
• We recruit, retain and develop exceptional staff and trustees to ensure that through every aspect of their experience of Uplands, our students are inspired, engaged and challenged, enabling them to make excellent progress and attain well.
• Our staff care deeply - each day they strive to be positive role models, thus supporting the inclusive culture of our school environment. Our staff want our students to feel safe and happy and listened to, academically, socially and in terms of their well-being. We have a culture that is highly aspirational and ambitious for excellence in all we do, where commonalities are identified and celebrated and that differences are respected, accepted, valued and nurtured.
• As staff we model what we want to see from one another and our students – we promote and expect a positive and motivated commitment to education from our students and their parents and carers.
• Our standards are unapologetically high – this applies to both our staff and students, thus enabling our teachers to teach and our students to learn and excel in their time at Uplands Academy and beyond.