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Billesley Primary School, which has 650 places, a 39 place Nursery and a 12 place Autism unit, is a welcoming school with high standards of achievement through exciting and creative teaching and learning. The school is located to the south of Birmingham, 3 miles from the City Centre and serves a diverse local community. The school works in close partnership with local organisations, creative practitioners and local residents to ensure that our children get the highest quality education so that they will continue to enjoy learning throughout their lives. We are committed to making each child’s experience at school unique and making sure that everything we do best meets the needs of our children and our community.

Our objective is to achieve excellence in all aspects of school life, from a wide range of inspiring learning opportunities to our excellent catering service and from the warm welcome you receive on entering the school to the highest possible standards of academic excellence. Our strategy is to develop people - through the knowledge and commitment of our staff, through challenge and support to our children and through working in partnership with our community to see education as the essential route to success in life. Our mission statement is to: ‘Inspire our children to succeed, Create excitement for learning, Achieve excellence’.

Billesley Primary School is committed to achieving excellence in all aspects of school life. Our vision is to inspire our children to succeed, create excitement for learning and so achieve excellence.We have a strong belief in the importance of determination, perseverance, team work and trust, and we are committed to challenging inequality in any form through an inclusive ethos. Our aim is to make learning enjoyable, allowing every individual to achieve their best and to nurture their talents, as well as giving them safety, security and the skills they will need to be active, responsible citizens and happy, caring adults in the future.

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Chandos is a thriving Primary School situated in the heart of Birmingham City Centre. Including our nursery, we have 460 pupils. We are a welcoming, happy, safe school community representing many cultures and faiths from across the globe. At all times we strive to be Compassionate, Honest, Aspirational, Nurturing, Determined, Optimistic and Self-aware.

Our core purpose is to enable children to reach their full potential and have the necessary skills to live harmoniously as constructive global citizens in our rapidly changing world. We do this by:

We pride ourselves on building strong relationships with our families and the wider community; working with a wide range of services and community organisations, while also encouraging parents to be part of the daily life of our school. We are an open minded school, always keen to build active partnerships with other schools.

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The Federation of Croft, Woods Bank and Kings Rise Schools

Croft Academy is a 210 place primary school with a nursery. We are located in central Walsall at the very heart of our diverse community. We work in close partnership with other organisations, our federated schools – King Rise and Woods Bank and across the Elliot Foundation. Croft Academy is committed to  improving outcomes for the children and families across the federation.

We offer children an exciting and creative curriculum, where learning is enjoyable and meets the needs of our children. As well as developing their key skills and feelings of safety and security, we want to develop and nurture children’s talents. As part of this we give children experiences outside of school through a growing programme of visits and experiences. As a small school, our staff know our children and families personally. We passionately care about the children in our school and are committed to giving them the best education we can.

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The Federation of George Betts and Shireland Hall Primary Schools 

Shireland Hall Primary and George Betts Schools were federated in November 2011 and now work together to provide the best opportunities possible for the children and families that they serve in Smethwick, West Midlands. Executive Head Teacher, Allan Shephard joined George Betts as Principal in February 2012 following many years of successful school improvement support for a majority of Sandwell schools.

Our Academy is committed to working with children, families and the local community in supporting children to be Successful Learners, Confident Individuals and Responsible Citizens. We value high standards of education as well as developing children’s sense of self and their responsibilities to the wider community. Our outcomes are great but we are always striving to achieve more for the benefit of our children and families.

Both George Betts and Shireland Hall have seen a huge improvement in outcomes for pupils over the past few years. Recent Ofsted's have judged Shireland as Outstanding (2022) and George Betts as Good (January 2019).

The federation supports a number of schools locally and nationally and are always looking for ways to challenge the norm in order to improve outcomes for pupils and families. Many teachers have been recognised as TEF Expert Teachers and work beyond the federation to ensure that children get the best possible teaching that they deserve.

The federation successfully achieved the NQT Quality Mark (the first federation in the country), the EYFS Quality Mark and Leading Parent Partnership Awards.

Our mission is to develop each child as a caring, confident and independent young person able to play a full part in a changing world.

We work to create an atmosphere that encourages confidence and self-esteem, where each child is happy, enjoys learning and develops skills for education and life. The curriculum is stimulating, relevant and varied and the working environment enables the development of individual strengths and co-operative skills. We always aim to improve on our previous best.

The school community is caring and challenging, where children grow in confidence. Each child has a significant place in this community, contributing varied abilities and gifts and experiencing its support. The school has a contribution to make to its neighbourhood, and values contacts with people in the area.

Kings Norton is a two-form entry primary school with capacity for 420 children. Our school vision is: ‘Learning is an adventure! Together, there are no limits to what we can achieve. ‘

As a school and a community we have the highest expectations for achievement, standards and conduct for your child. We believe the children should be at the centre of all we do. Learning should be exciting, enjoyable, relevant, engaging whilst at the same time challenging and thought provoking. To enable your child to succeed and to be the best they can be, we work with our families and outside agencies to support all of our children.

Working together we provide your child with the tools, skills, and opportunities to achieve their fulfil their potential. We have recently received the Silver Award for the Skills Builder programme, where children have learnt and developed essential skills such as problem solving, leadership and teamwork.

Our school values are; Fun, Caring for the Environment, Love, Friendship, Being Creative and Being Healthy and they run throughout our curriculum underpinning the learning and the ethos of the school.

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The Federation of Croft, Woods Bank and Kings Rise Schools

Kings Rise Academy, is 3 miles to the north of Birmingham city centre. A school on the site was founded in 1932 as a co-educational primary school called Peckham Road Primary. Since 1932, we've been serving, supporting and inspiring the children and community of Kingstanding through world wars, pandemics, evacuations, and lockdowns! Kings Rise Academy is proud to say that we have always been committed to providing the best education for our pupils, the best partnerships with our parents, and the best opportunities for our staff. 

Kings Rise Academy is a vibrant multi-cultural school growing all the time with over three hundred pupils, a nursery unit, full day care and a breakfast club. We strive to ensure that deprivation is not a barrier to achieving and our results continue to reflect this. The school has worked hard developing links with pupils and families, providing a strong focus on community and parental engagement; parenting and adult literacy classes, parent support groups and multiple extra-curricular sports and creative groups. We also provide nurture group provision for pupils to support pupils to develop their social and emotional skills alongside their academic attainment.

We work in close partnership with other organisations, the Elliot Foundation and our federated schools – Woods Bank and Croft Academy.

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Netherbrook Primary School is a much larger than average two form entry school with over 500 pupils. We have 60 pupils in each year group split into two classes of 30. We also have a 56 place Time for Twos unit offering part time pre-school places as well as a 48 place part time Nursery and 30 place full time Nursery unit within our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

Our pupils’ personal, social and emotional development is key and our dedicated team of staff ensure pupils’ needs are met every day. Throughout the school we focus on developing our pupils’ skills across the curriculum and in English and mathematics in particular. Our aim is to ensure all our pupils are given the skills to learn effectively throughout their lives.

Inclusion is a strength of the school and we are proud of our local reputation for supporting pupils with additional needs. At Netherbrook, we offer a broad and balanced curriculum that is based on the aim of developing confident, independent pupils, high in self-esteem, with meaningful skills and a clear understanding of their place in the world.

The performing arts are very important to us here at Netherbrook. We are recognised locally for our excellent choirs and dance troupes and our school productions are always excellent.


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Rounds Green Primary School joined The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust in August 2022.  We're located in Sandwell and are proud to be a vibrant, multicultural two-form entry primary school welcoming children from age 3-11. The front of our school can be deceiving!  Hidden at the back is a large field and a forest which provides both space and a learning resource for our children.

 

Our staff are kind, caring professionals determined to provide the best possible education for all of our children; supporting them to achieve and to flourish whilst ensuring their safety.  Much work has been done to ensure that our curriculum is well-planned and provides exciting opportunities for all of our children which extend into our breakfast club and after-school provision.

 

We work in close partnership with our parents and carers and strongly encourage them to be active participants in their child’s education and are proud of the relationships that we have forged.

 

Developed by our school community, our seven school virtues (respect, determination, teamwork, kindness, curiosity, honesty and citizenship) help to prepare our children to be self-reflective, well-rounded individuals who are able to make wise and informed choices that positively guides their behaviour and prepares them for the next stages of their lives.

 

We are proud of the progress that we have made thus far and this has been recognised in the following awards: Early Years Quality Mark, Charter Mark for NQT Induction, Covid Well-Being Charter Mark, Well-Being Carter Mark, School Games Mark – Gold Award and a Kite mark for Character Education but equally, we are committed to continuing to improve our provision and securing strong outcomes for our wonderful pupils.


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The Federation of George Betts and Shireland Hall Primary Schools

Shireland Hall Primary and George Betts Schools were federated in November 2011 and now work together to provide the best opportunities possible for the children and families that they serve in Smethwick, West Midlands. Executive Head Teacher, Allan Shephard joined George Betts as Principal in February 2012 following many years of successful school improvement support for a majority of Sandwell schools.

Our Academy is committed to working with children, families and the local community in supporting children to be Successful Learners, Confident Individuals and Responsible Citizens. We value high standards of education as well as developing children’s sense of self and their responsibilities to the wider community. 

Both George Betts and Shireland Hall have seen a huge improvement in outcomes for pupils over the past few years and recent Ofsted's have judged Shireland as Outstanding (2022) and George Betts as Good (2019). The federation has also achieved the NQT Quality Mark (the first federation in the country), the EYFS Quality Mark and Leading Parent Partnership Awards.

The federation supports a number of schools locally and nationally and are always looking for ways to challenge the norm in order to improve outcomes for pupils and families. Many teachers have been recognised as TEF Expert Teachers and work beyond the federation to ensure that children get the best possible teaching that they deserve.

Shirestone Community Primary School was founded in 1953 six miles east of Birmingham city centre as a mixed-gender primary school. It is now a vibrant school with an intake of 236 pupils now known as Shirestone Academy. The school has a family and community ethos, and there is a belief that every child can achieve. Staff believe in a shared vision, a good quality continued professional development programme, and an ethos of care for each other and the children. Work with parents has also been of paramount importance to us with a focus on an ‘open door’ policy. 

Parents feel confident to approach members of staff in the school and become active in developing and nurturing the education of their own child. We often invite parents in to be part of the learning so that this continues outside the classroom and children are given the best possible chance for achievement. 

Shirestone Academy now has a vibrant programme of extra-curricular sports and creative groups. We aim high, challenge ourselves and our thinking and exceed our expectations. We aim to become a center of excellence in Tile Cross where all the children will have the highest expectations of themselves, both in their work, achievements and behaviour. This will be reflected in the commitment of staff, governors and parents who work with the pupils and in the school to achieve its aims. We will continue to improve our environment internally and externally so that we reflect the pride, which we have in our school and the value we place on ourselves.

Come and visit Shirestone Academy and let the children tell you about their love for learning and the academy.

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Tiverton joined The Elliot Foundation family of schools in May 2013 as one form entry academy in Selly Oak, Birmingham. All children are part of an outstanding learning community that supports and encourages them to be happy, caring, successful and inspirational citizens.

In March 2019, Tiverton Academy received another Outstanding judgement. Tiverton has worked incredibly hard over the years to develop a creative curriculum that has not only raised standards, improved behaviour and levels of pupil engagement, it has also inspired our children and allowed them to explore their interests and discover their unique talents. Tiverton has extremely high expectations of our staff, families and children.

Tiverton received much praise which exemplifies the character of the school:

"Leaders provide an excellent programme of curriculum activities and enrichment. There are numerous national awards displayed in the foyer that include recognition for the high standards reached in art and design, the performing arts, music, physical education and sport. These have a very positive effect on pupils’ personal development and attitudes to school and learning"

"Pupils behave very well in lessons and at recreational times. There are warm and positive relationships between pupils and staff. The welfare, care and attention given to pupils remain strong features of the school. The staff make a very good contribution to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Parents are, rightly, very pleased with the pastoral care and welfare provided for their children"

Tiverton firmly believe in ‘Achievement for all’. Children who are part of our school community will be encouraged to be creative and active learners. Their journey with us will offer opportunities for them to discover and pursue individual talents and skills.

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The Federation of Croft, Woods Bank and Kings Rise Schools

Woods Bank Academy became federated with Croft Academy and Kings Rise Academy at the start of 2015. The three academies are led by a single executive principal, with each school retaining their own dedicated principal. Our values are: Belong, Learn, Grow.

Belong - our school is happy, safe and a welcoming place where children, teachers, parents and the community work together.
Learn - our school is an inspiring, creative and ambitious place, where we work hard, have high expectations of ourselves and always do our best.
Grow - our school is kind, nurturing and a respectful place, where children flourish as individuals and grow in confidence, independence, resilience and trust.

At Woods Bank we provide a quality education for children aged 3-11 years. Currently, there are 390 pupils on roll at the school. We offer the children a wide range of learning experiences and after school activities. The children are friendly and well motivated to learn and our teachers are dedicated and skilled. We also have the benefit of excellent support from parents and governors. Our vision is to provide a happy, caring and stimulating environment where children will recognise and achieve their fullest potential, so that they can make their best contribution to society.

Woods Bank Academy is a place where; everybody is welcomed and you are not alone, we achieve together, we respect and care for everyone and everything around us. Woods Bank sets high standards of learning and celebrate the achievements of each child.

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