Leith Academy Values

Staff, pupils and parents value:

• success in learning for all
• mutual respect and caring for others
• individual needs and development
• honesty and fairness in our actions

Leith Academy Aims

• Curriculum – To ensure a broad and balanced curriculum that provides learners with the best possible learning opportunities.
• Attainment – To ensure that all learners are able to realise their potential through the promotion , and recognition of achievement.
• Learning and Teaching – To provide high quality learning and teaching experiences that challenge and motivate learners, developing positive attitudes towards and responsibility for learning.
• Support for Learners – To provide effective support systems for all learners which promote good behaviour, self-discipline and respect for others.
• Ethos – To provide a high quality, welcoming, safe and caring environment in which all are valued and supported, and for which all share responsibility.
• Management – To improve the quality of learning and teaching through effective leadership, organisation and management of the school’s staff and resources.
• Health Promotion – To develop strategies which promote good health, physical and mental wellbeing and self-esteem for all.
• Staff Development – To encourage personal responsibility for meaningful continuing professional development in all staff, in order to improve the quality of experiences for learners.
• Partnership – To further develop effective partnerships between the school, its associated primaries, the parents, external support agencies and its wider community.
• Lifelong Learning – To foster in learners a desire for knowledge and understanding, while equipping them with skills and positive attitudes for life as a foundation for lifelong learning.
• Citizenship – To promote responsible citizenship by developing values, beliefs and attitudes compatible with living in a modern, democratic and multicultural society.
• Social Inclusion – To ensure that every learner enjoys quality of access to educational opportunities, appropriate to identified needs.