Middlethorpe Primary Academy
Principal's Welcome
As Principal of Middlethorpe Primary Academy - an Enquire Learning Trust school - I would like to welcome you to our school on behalf of our children, parents, staff and governors.
Middlethorpe we pride ourselves on creating a warm and friendly environment in which everyone feels part of a large family- ‘Together we learn to shine’. Learning is at the heart of everything we do and through a varied and rich curriculum, our children leave our academy with aspirational outcomes and the skills to enable them to become lifelong learners.
Our three drivers of Kindness, Responsibility and Pride underpin every choice we make and challenge everyone to become the best they can be.
Our School Mission
Middlethorpe Learners – At Middlethorpe, learning is the core of everything we do.
Our Aims
- Build relationships within the school, with families and the wider community
- Create a happy, secure, stable and caring environment in which all children achieve to their full potential
- Inspire and nurture a love of lifelong learning
- Ensure all children reach their full potential and are prepared for the next stage in their educational journey
- Enable the development of our fantastic learning behaviours of curiosity, resilience, independence, reflection and collaboration
- Equip our pupils with the skills and confidence to articulate opinions, listen to others, reason and debate
- Instil our aims of kindness, responsibility and pride in all we do
- Provide a rich and varied range of experiences to enable children to understand the ever changing world they live in
- Develop global citizens who are self-aware, empathetic and able to make the world a better place
Our Curriculum
At Middlethorpe Primary Academy we offer a broad, balanced and academically rigorous curriculum for all our learners. Children in the Early Years Foundation Stage are taught using the EYFS framework with an emphasis on developing key skills, knowledge and understanding through direct teaching and structured continuous provision.
e have developed our curriculum to ensure we not only meet but exceed the requirements of the national curriculum in providing our pupils with a knowledge-rich education to ensure their success as they move into KS3. The National Curriculum document shows the statutory objectives for the knowledge, skills and understanding that we teach at Middlethorpe Primary Academy from Year 1 to Year 6.