I am delighted to welcome you, virtually, to Co-op Academy Manchester.

You might be joining us in September, or you might just be starting to think about choosing your secondary school. Let me introduce you to our school and how we ensure the academy is

• A GREAT place to learn 
• A GREAT place to work 
• At the heart of a GREAT Community

Since opening in 2010, our academy has prepared thousands of young people to succeed in the wider world.

We are proud to watch our students and staff showing the Ways of Being Co-op every day.  We share these with other Co-op Academies around the country, and they explain our way of doing things:

• Do what matters most
• Be yourself, always
• Show you care
• Succeed together

We have a strong vision for the academy: ‘Co-operating for a fairer world for our community; providing educational excellence, community responsibility and elevated aspirations for all’

Our Academy Development Plan has been written to take us from ‘Good’ to ‘GREAT’. This includes three school priorities: 

• Keeping students safe, happy and well
• Achieving and Embedding Excellence in Education
• Showing We Care for our Students, Colleagues and Community

What makes us GREAT?

At Co-op Academy Manchester, what we do matters, but the way that we do it matters even more. We ask students and colleagues to be GREAT in everything we do. 

The things that make us GREAT permeate through our daily habits to ensure educational excellence for our students through cooperation and elevated aspirations, creating responsible citizens who value and support their community.

	Genuine - Authentic care is demonstrated in all interactions with students, colleagues and the community. We live ‘deliberate botheredness’, compassionate consistency and unconditional positive regard.  Growth - We provide a range of ‘pupil experiences’ for students, to support the acquisition and retention of knowledge whilst also elevating aspirations through widening cultural experiences.
	Routines - We believe that good habits and routines are the foundation for learning, they provide predictability and consistency for our most vulnerable learners. Routines ensure that all students are set up for success.  Respect - Respect is modelled by adults and expected of students, including respecting others’ differences and celebrating diversity. We belong to Co-op Academies Trust and are bound together by our values and the Co-op Ways of Being.
	Experts - We believe that expert teaching of a knowledge-rich curriculum combined with ‘ready to learn’ habits leads to knowledge experts. Empathy - We show and encourage empathy whilst building resilience in students to overcome barriers to learning.
	Achievement - We ensure that our knowledge rich curriculum and expert teaching enables students to become knowledge experts. This ensures that they have elevated aspirations for their future.  Adaptive - We ensure that expert teaching and our knowledge rich curriculum are adapted appropriately to enable all students to become knowledge experts. A graduated support offer for students, linking pastoral and SEND colleagues, ensures the right support, at the right time.
	Tenacious - We are tenacious as a community and build resilience in colleagues and students to overcome barriers to ‘succeeding together’. Students demonstrate that they are ‘ready to learn’ in each lesson and colleagues give a new day, a new start.  Together - We share a common vision and we achieve more when we work as a team. We are part of our local community and have a sense of belonging.

Mr Allan Glover
Principal