Our values and ethos at SUA

Here at Team SUA we make a difference. Our mission at SUA is to ensure that our students are able to achieve the very best life chances. Standards are high. Our students follow a simple RESPECT code which instils the right level of focus for the very best learning to occur. The staff and students at the academy continue to work together to improve every aspect of academy life. Last autumn we were delighted Ofsted reported, ‘You have established an ambitious culture in the school. Staff share this ambition.’ There is a, ‘positive learning culture…pupils’ learning is sequenced well and teachers ensure that they deliberately revisit important knowledge they want the pupils to remember.’

We underpin everything on our three academy values of ‘Aspire, Believe, Achieve!’ We are innovative in our approaches to teaching and learning, sourcing ideas from international practices.

Successful learning is supported by having strong partnerships and we work to achieve this through excellent communication between the academy, parents, governors and the local community. This is recognised as a strength of ours at SUA; parental voice and support is helpful and overwhelmingly positive. Follow us on Facebook to find out even more about life at SUA! Search: Staffordshire University Academy. If you have a child, or children, at SUA you can also request to join our closed ‘Official Parents of SUA’ Facebook group. This group, launched in June 2023, has been hugely beneficial in encouraging additional, open dialogue between parents/carers and ourselves.

As the new year is now underway, we are excited by the record numbers of students joining us! Over 170 new students beginning Year 7 is something we are all very proud of. Our sixth form, SUA6, has tripled in size over the last 3 years and we have more families than ever before joining us from across the Cannock and Rugeley District. Our results in both GCSE and A Level this summer were a sign that our students can do exceptionally well if they are fully committed, work hard and show a great determination to achieve. Our students’ hard work, and that of our amazing staffing body, joined with our close working relationship with our families continues to be a recipe for sustained improvement. These are exciting times for Team SUA and our growth is reassuring; we know we have a lot to be proud of.

If you would like to find out more about our academy please feel free to come and visit us during a normal working day. You will see why we are all so determined to help our students be the best that they can be; you will see our students hard at work and see staff whom enjoy working to support these ends.

Rowena Hillier

September 2023

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