Working at the Academy

Why work at Accrington Academy?

Hopefully if you are reading this page you are considering joining us on our journey to provide a world class learning experience and environment for all our learners. We hope the information below provides you with some of the reasons that we believe make the Academy a great place to continue you career.

We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated and successful colleagues to be part of our future development and to help shape the provision of excellent education in Accrington. You will join a successful learning environment that has seen student results improve significantly in recent years and which has been oversubscribed for the last two years. Our building extension and refurbishment programme will be complete in summer 2010. It will provide additional state of the art facilities for learning and will house our specialist provision for Sixth Form students.

Cutting edge learning facilities are evident throughout the Academy. Every classroom has an interactive white board and most classrooms are fully equipped with the state of the art 'Active Expression' learning system.

Our £17 million pound new build will add world specialist world class facilities and a further £1.2 million investment in ICT.

They say that first impressions are the best. Before my interview they were positive and I knew that the school was an organisation that I could work for.
Mr Rigg - Mini Bus Driver

Professional development is at the heart of our philosophy. As a Training and Development Agency Badge school, Investor in People school and Partnership Promotion Status school we actively promote opportunities for all staffs development. As well as utilising national courses such as leadership pathways, leading from the middle and NPQH, we are extremely proud of our internal support structure and the benefits we receive by being part of the ULT/UCST family of schools.

We are also proud to be offering one of our staff the opportunity to undertake an 'Excellence' visit to America this year.

A chance to be Creative. As a Creative Partnerships 'Change School' we are actively involved in working with a range of partners and practitioners to enhance the learning experience of students. This approach can be seen throughout the academy in our innovative approaches to whole school issues and structures such as our curriculum design and student support. If you want the freedom to take a risk, the Academy is certainly for you.

Accrington Academy also aims to be at the heart of the community. Ranging from our enjoyable family celebration weekend, programme of community clubs and teams and range of evening classes, we actively want to be at the heart of learning in our area.

We are in the top 5% of schools nationally for CVA in the last two years.

We have a cutting edge approach to the curriculum and its delivery. Our curriculum reflects our desire to ensure that all students leave the academy as not only qualification machines but as well rounded capable and independent learners. 

Notable features of our approach include a ''competence curriculum' in years 7 and 8, a 'learn to learn' cours, leading the diploma in Creative and Media, strong vocational provision and a genuine approach to collaborative working through the 'HRRV Learning Consortium'.