Our Mission

At Potter Street Academy, our mission is to nurture every child’s potential.

We provide a safe, inclusive and inspiring environment where every child, regardless of background or circumstance, is known, valued and given the opportunity to thrive.

Through excellent teaching, enriching experiences and strong relationships with our families and community, we work to remove barriers, raise aspirations and equip our children with the knowledge, confidence, resilience and values they need to succeed.

We want every child to leave Potter Street believing in themselves, excited by what their future might hold and knowing that their background should never determine their destination.

Our Vision

Our vision is for Potter Street Academy to be a school at the heart of its community – a place of hope, opportunity and belonging where children and families know that they matter.

We want every child to experience an education that opens doors: one that combines high expectations and academic success with rich experiences, strong relationships and opportunities to discover who they are and what they can become.

We aspire for our children to grow into confident, compassionate and resilient young people who are curious about the world, proud of themselves and their community, and ready to embrace the opportunities ahead of them.

Above all, our vision is simple:

Every child known. Every child valued. Every child given the opportunity to thrive.

 

All PCLC schools have an approach that is based on the following key principles:

 

• Our unconditional positive regard ensures that every young person is highly valued and expected to achieve their potential;
• every young person has the right to be successful and has ability to achieve, no matter what their socio-economic background;
• there is no limit to achievement – intelligence can be developed;
• each student must know what to do in order to improve and how to do it, high expectations on their own are not enough;
• consistency of experience is fundamental; each school is a team and consistency makes us greater than the sum of our parts;
• employment opportunities in PCLC schools should allow all colleagues to inspire a love for learning; not simply process and record what we find.

Trust Board Priorities

To achieve our Vision:

How does the school know that pupils' oracy is improving?
• What does progression in oracy look like between Yr R and Yr 6 or Yr 7 and Yr 11.
• How does the school deliberately teach oracy within a subject such as science or
history?
• Which pupils are currently least confident speakers and what are we doing about
this?
• How are we ensuring that disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND have the
same opportunities to develop their spoken language?
• How is talk used to improve pupils' thinking and learning, rather than simply
increasing the amount of classroom discussion?
• What does pupil voice tell the school about their confidence as speakers?