Welcome to Higham Lane North Academy.

We are fully committed to ensuring that everyone will excel because we have high expectations for all pupils and we provide high levels of care and support to ensure that they are the happy and successful people that we all want them to be.

Our principle mission at Higham Lane North Academy is that ‘everyone is included and everyone belongs.’  We are a truly inclusive school where we champion every pupil so that no child is left behind.   We are committed to ensuring that every child has something that they are interested in, that engages them, that they can contribute to, feel recognised and valued for – we know that self-esteem and wellbeing are inextricably linked to belonging, and we do everything to ensure that pupils at HLNA feel that they are a key part of our school, that they have something to offer and be valued for.    

Higham Lane North Academy pupils are ‘proud because we do what is right’.   We actively and explicitly role model and teach key attributes of wisdom, integrity, gratitude, perseverance and resilience which is underpinned by our ‘3Cs’: our core values of being conscientious, compassionate and confident.  We prioritise this because we want pupils to have the knowledge and skills that are required for them to be happy and successful not only whilst they are at school, but also to prepare them for fulfilling and meaningful lives that bring them a strong sense of wellbeing.   We want HLNA pupils to be confident going out into the world because they know what the right thing is to do, in any given situation, whether that be in their personal or professional lives.    

As part of our care and support curriculum, we ensure that every child is safe, happy, has purpose and a sense of belonging, which is achieved through what we teach, and how we teach.   Every day, through our character and culture curriculum, we provide pupils with a wide range of opportunities to achieve the NORTH STAR principles of Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Resilience not only within the classroom, but crucially beyond it so that every child feels safe and happy to attend school through our carefully planned and sequenced care and support curriculum.  Our fully immersive approach includes both a contextualised safeguarding and attendance curriculum and a taught behaviour curriculum alongside co-curricular opportunities encompassing charity, community, competition, creativity, culture and leadership.   We do this because we want pupils to recognise their value and contribution that they can make; that there is so much to be involved in and this contributes to their whole development.   We give pupils at HLNA opportunities that will enable them to compete at the

Our commitment to excellent teaching and learning and an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum is relentless. We ensure that pupils leave Higham Lane North Academy with the confidence that comes from possessing the best of what has been thought, said and written about every subject that they learn.  Our carefully planned and sequenced ambitious curriculum ensures that pupils’ knowledge is built so that they learn more and remember more and through our values of being conscientious, compassionate and confident, we create a culture within the classroom which ensure that pupils are ambitious for themselves and others that they learn alongside.  Alongside the curriculum, it is expected that all pupils take part in the Innovation and Inspiration programme which places ambition at the heart of the programme, linking their daily lived experience to the futures that they want to inhabit when they are older.  

When joining Higham Lane North Academy, you can be confident that your child will receive an ambitious education, an education that fulfils our HLNA pledge: that your child is happy and safe, loves their learning, is nurtured and supported, and is aspirational and ambitious.   

Mrs Robinson

Headteacher.