As Academy Principal, I am very pleased to welcome you to Unsworth Academy.

Our Vision, culture and values are “To drive the academic and character development of learners, so that they may

shape communities they inhabit.”

Individually Focused - ownership, accountability,

self-discipline, and a bespoke approach to realise personal potential.

Holistically Developmental - academic and character progression are of equal importance.

Community Centred - a school community within a wider community that has strength in collective collaboration.

Our values: Be excellent, be organised, be resilient, be kind, be inclusive, be moral.

Unsworth Academy is a coeducational Secondary School that caters for students from 11 to 16. We are proud to be a leading member school of the Shaw Education Trust. Our facilities, staff team and community culture are regularly praised and have caused our school to become a hugely popular destination.

We have an ethos of “relentless ambition” to continuously drive high quality curriculum to lead to excellent student outcomes and future pathways. A profound commitment to inclusion means that every individual child is nurtured and challenged to realise their significant potential.

Alex Fair

Academy Principal

We are delighted that Unsworth Academy is an integral member of our family of schools.

As a Trust we work with leaders, staff and learners to deliver awesome outcomes for young people; outcomes which open the doors to a world of opportunity. We support learners to aspire to the highest ambitions and improve their life chances by enabling every individual’s greatest possible success.

Together we are stronger and capable of incredible things.

We are very proud of the journey the school has taken to date and we are wholeheartedly determined that the best is yet to come.

Jo Morgan

CEO Shaw Education Trust 

Across the Trust we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design. We want our pupils, regardless of their starting points and barriers, to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them.

We constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. This innovation comes in many forms, including extending school days to provide a world-class enrichment programme and additional opportunities for essential skills development; the introduction of vocational and technical pathways to develop work readiness in our pupils, supported by leading employers and universities; co-constructing curriculum across all EBacc subjects, to create world class programmes, rich in knowledge and skills; We are also driving PedTech across the sector, focusing on fully digitally enhanced curriculum and close to 1:1 device delivery.

We are currently at an exciting point in our evolution, with collaboration at the heart of our endeavour. We value the 'power of the pack' and strive as a collective, ensuring no school or colleague is left behind.

We take an evidence-informed approach to developing the quality of our teaching and learning and value a non-hierarchical, supportive approach to developing great teachers.

This approach has led to a significant reduction in workload, meaning colleagues can spend more time on curriculum delivery and fostering strong relationships with pupils.

As a people-focused trust, we consider the professional development of our staff as a fundamental responsibility. Where any schools face any barrier, it has the mutual support of the others to call upon for subject specific or general support. Our directors have a wealth of leadership experience and subject knowledge and support staff across the trust to design and the deliver the very best academic experience to our pupils.

We are part of Shaw Education Trust.

We are a growing multi-academy trust which places high achievement at the heart of all we do. We lead and manage academies in all phases, all sectors and in all communities.

To find out more about Shaw Education Trust, please click here

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