Rushey Mead at the heart of community
RUSHEY MEAD Academy is celebrating after being named the best school in the region in this year’s Real Schools Guide.
The Melton Road-based school which is part of the Mead Educational Trust is a vibrant and highly successful school which serves communities in the north of Leicester.
The school, for pupils aged 11-16, has a long and proud history of achieving outstanding outcomes for students in terms of attainment and progress, achieving consistently well above national averages on key performance measures.
Talking about the school’s ethos and policies, Principal, Gulbanu Kader, said: “Our Rushey 1-2-3 expectations of Be Kind, Work
Hard, Develop your Whole Self provide a framework for personal conduct and development for students. From the moment a student arrives, we ask them to live these expectations so that they permeate all that we do.
“We take pride in our challenging and well-designed curriculum which seeks to give all our students access to the best which has been thought, said, written and created in every field of human endeavour.
“This ensures that our young people receive a broad, rich and deep education.
“Uniquely, each student studies a foreign language to GCSE level and the majority of our students study the English Baccalaureate set of subjects to GCSE level, signalling our drive to ensure all students benefit from an academic and enriching curriculum.
“Alongside traditional subjects, sport, music and the arts are highly valued.
“This can be seen in the range of sporting clubs and achievements each year, our high quality drama and dance productions and our music scholarship programme which has enabled us to grow a 60-strong orchestra in partnership with the London Philharmonia.
“All of this allows our students to leave us as well rounded, happy young people, ready for success in the next phase of their lives.”
She added: “We are fiercely ambitious for each one of our students.
“Being firmly rooted in our community, we benefit from the trust and support of our parents, who look to the academy to provide their children with the best possible education knowing that their children will be stretched, challenged and cherished.”