Aims
Corby Business Academy will be a place where:
- Students and staff strive to be the best they can
- Students can develop the confidence to be active citizens in their community and the wider world
- Enterprise and initiative are qualities encouraged amongst staff and students alike
- Students can learn and teachers can teach in a safe and purposeful environment
- Every student will achieve the best academic outcomes possible
Objectives
These aims will be achieved through:
- A 'CELTIC' curriculum where Creativity, Energy, Learning by doing, Targets, Independence and Challenge are planned in to every lesson
- Developing a full range of learning, thinking and life skills
- Connecting school to the real world of work wherever possible
- Offering a wider range of subjects and activities than most secondary schools
- Demanding the highest standards of presentation for students and staff alike
- Nurturing close partnerships with the local community
- Providing a range of lifelong learning and recreational services to the local community
What does having 'a Specialism in Business and Enterprise' mean?
All teaching at Corby Business Academy encourages students to develop Enterprise Skills. These skills cover the ability to:
- manage themselves and their time effectively
- have strategies for solving problems
- lead others and be accountable
- work well as team members
- cope with pressure
- communicate well both orally and in writing
- present and argue a point of view
- negotiate and influence
- use technology to process data and carry out research
- identify opportunities and act on them
On leaving the Academy students who have taken full advantage of the opportunities on offer will have the skills to establish their own business, enter employment or continue into higher education with every prospect of success. In other words they will have Enterprise Capability, which is can be defined as 'innovation, creativity, risk-management and risk-taking, a can-do attitude, and the drive to make it happen'.