At Hartley Brook Primary Academy, our approach to teaching and learning is rooted in our core values: scholarship, tenacity, unity, responsibility, and curiosity. These principles guide us in creating a nurturing and inclusive environment where every child is encouraged to reach their full potential.
Our curriculum is broad, balanced, and designed to be both relevant and differentiated to cater for varied abilities. We aim to remove barriers to learning by providing suitable challenges that respond to diverse needs, ensuring that all pupils are engaged and motivated. This includes offering a variety of exciting, first-hand experiences that enable children to acquire appropriate skills, knowledge, and understanding, to prepare them for today’s world.
We place great emphasis on the basic skills of English, communication, and maths. While these subjects are taught separately, we also believe in a creative, thematic curriculum where areas of learning are linked. This approach motivates children to learn more effectively and develop personal skills that are transferable across lessons and useful in wider life.
Our teaching staff are dedicated to fostering a love of learning, encouraging pupils to be confident, capable, resilient, and independent learners. We support our children in developing self-discipline and responsibility, and we promote positive behaviour expectations and relationships throughout the school.
Beyond the core curriculum, we offer a range of wider curriculum activities and specialist sports, as well as great outdoor spaces. These opportunities help to enrich the educational experience and support the development of well-rounded individuals.
At Hartley Brook, we believe in the power of strong partnerships between school and home. We actively encourage parental involvement to enhance our students’ educational experiences and outcomes. Together, we strive to nurture confident, lifelong learners who are proud to be part of our Hartley Brook community.
As part of the Astrea Academy Trust, we benefit from a network of support and high expectations, helping us to deliver the best possible outcomes for every child.
Hartley Brook Primary Academy aims to provide a curriculum that is broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated to provide for varied abilities. Barriers to learning are removed and we provide suitable learning challenges that respond to diverse needs. This encompasses a variety of exciting, first-hand experiences to enable children to acquire appropriate skills, knowledge and understanding preparing them for today’s world. Through the provision of a stimulating environment, children will develop to their full potential academically, socially and physically.
The framework for the children’s learning is provided by the National Curriculum which sets out the core subjects of Maths, English and Science along with ICT, PE, History, Geography, Design and Technology, Art, Music, Religious Education and MFL. We also teach Citizenship, Personal, Social and Health Education attaching great importance to the development of social skills. The curriculum encourages children to develop self-discipline and responsibility and to work collaboratively with others.
Great emphasis is placed on learning the basic skills of English, Communication and Maths. As well as teaching these lessons separately, we believe that a creative thematic curriculum where areas of learning are linked motivates children to learn more effectively and develop personal skills transferrable across lessons and useful in wider life.