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Manchester Communication Academy

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Welcome to Manchester Communication Academy, a mixed, non-selective school serving local children.

We believe passionately in the power of an excellent education to transform lives and provide new opportunities for young people. We provide an exciting and challenging experience for our students in a supportive and caring environment.

The proof of our success is demonstrated by the quality of the daily experience we provide for young people. We have the highest expectations in term of teaching,...

Welcome to Manchester Communication Academy, a mixed, non-selective school serving local children.

We believe passionately in the power of an excellent education to transform lives and provide new opportunities for young people. We provide an exciting and challenging experience for our students in a supportive and caring environment.

The proof of our success is demonstrated by the quality of the daily experience we provide for young people. We have the highest expectations in term of teaching, learning and the standards our students achieve. We work on the principles that every child can be successful.

I am proud to say that at MCA we are a very outward facing school. We are part of the Manchester Collaborative where colleagues from different subject areas and with different responsibilities meet with similar colleagues from other schools to share ideas and provide support.

We are also working closely with the Institute for Teaching with colleagues working through the Transforming Teaching programme and I am lucky enough to be on the Fellowship programme. We have built effective relationships with OLEVI and are now proud facilitators of the Outstanding Teacher Programme.

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school history

British Values are vital to the mission of MCA. The principles of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs, are integral to the life of the Academy. These are not only included in the academic curriculum but inform relationships between students and staff; are the basis of inter-staff cooperation; underlie home-school interaction and community participation; and are always salient in the formation of Academy policy and procedures.

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We share resources and ideas -it provides an opportunity to reflect and compare how well students have learnt. This year, we have set up coaching triads as part of our learning communities to support professional development. Whilst coaching is still in its infancy here, the opportunity to discuss ideas and share the evaluation process of strategies, further supports the belief that working together in a non-threatening and non-judgemental way can be really powerful.

Our drive for CPD-Teaching and learning and curriculum is to flood the environment with as much exposure as possible to a text-rich culture.

Lesson Structures are different-four x 1 hour-20-minute lessons. Why? We recognised, with the help of student voices, that many struggled to concentrate for the longer lesson period and in some cases the time meant that pace was compromised.

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