The Academy's classrooms and learning spaces will be organised in five main teaching faculties as follows:
The space in each faculty will be very generous and able to accommodate a whole year group of students from years 7 to 11 plus several sixth form classes. On entering a faculty, students will find everything they need for their work readily to hand. There will be specialist equipment and workshops, several different kinds of classroom and open access to computers carrying the software needed in the faculty. Staff teaching the same subject will do so in rooms next to each other to provide greater support and flexibility. Student group sizes will be varied to make maximum use of the facilities and meet individual needs. In addition to the teaching faculties, the Academy will have some informal social areas and a modern library which will also operate as a sixth form study base.
The Academy will also have a Designated Special Provision (DSP) Faculty which will be the base for some special needs students. However, the Academy will always seek to be inclusive and from the outset every teaching faculty has been carefully designed to ensure all students can participate in main school lessons.
Pastoral care and support will be through Personal Tutors in the first instance. In addition a team of staff known as the Faculty of Student Care and Guidance will provide additional help for individual students. Whether they are exceptionally gifted learners, struggling to make progress in one or more subjects or having difficulty meeting the Academy's expectations in terms of behaviour, the Student Care and Guidance staff will ensure that appropriate arrangements are in place for them to be successful. Expert staff from this team will train other staff to ensure lessons provide a high quality service to all students at all times. Staff in this faculty will support and monitor the progress of students following an individualised curriculum.
Corby Business Academy will be firmly focussed on ensuring all its students make progress, whatever their prior achievement or ability. Our aim is to enable all students to develop confidence in their abilities, be their best and to make improvements to their levels of achievement across the curriculum.
Every aspect of the Academy building has been designed to give full access for people with disabilities. The Academy will have purpose built facilities to aid mobility, aural and visual access to learning resources and technical facilities such as computers and other ICT equipment. The Academy will act with due regard to the requirements of the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice guidance and relevant disability and equal opportunities legislation at all times.
As far as possible the teaching and learning of students with SEN will take place within normal classrooms. All students with SEN will be members of tutor groups. If students require care or assistance not available in the main school, this will be provided through the Designated Special Provision (DSP) Faculty.
All teaching at Corby Business Academy will encourage students to develop Enterprise Skills. These skills cover the ability to:
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,'
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