Prospectus 2012-13 - Braunton Academy

4. Developing Learning with our Learning Community and our
Wider Community Partners.
Our Computing and Mathematics specialism is a great way to deepen our
relationship with our primary partner schools, to help raise achievement and
make the transition from KS2 to 3 as seamless as possible. We have
additional staffing who work closely with our primary schools to help raise
achievement in Y6 in a range of subjects including Maths, ICT, Science,
Technology, Art, Music, PE and Drama and to provide an excellent transition
programme to help the learners and their parents as they transfer from Year 6
to year 7. We also offer our excellent facilities and the use of our minibus to
our primary partner schools.
In the summer term before transfer, Y5 and 6 students are invited to
engage in a film animation project with an environmental sustainability
theme as part of our transition plan. Here are the 2012 winners of the
Animation BAFTA awards where the students combined their IT and
creativity skills with their knowledge and understanding of the
environmental threats facing mankind. The standards were excellent.
Additionally, we want our learners to have a very relevant curriculum through
the development of enterprise and vocational learning opportunities by
working very closely with our business partners in the community. We also
want our Academy’s facilities to be enjoyed by increasing numbers of young
people, adult learners and local businesses after hours to promote lifelong
learning throughout the Braunton Learning Community. To sum it all up, this
Academy is about success for all in our Learning Community.
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