All children make excellent progress in their learning, whatever their starting point

Our approach to school improvement is based on school to school support. The Principals and senior staff at schools within the RSA Family take responsibility for leading school improvement.

The five schools in the RSA Family of Academies are all members of the newly established RSA Academies Teaching School Alliance as part of the National Teaching Schools scheme. Through the alliance we

New research led by RSA Academies and Warwick University Tackling educational disadvantage Warwick University and RSA Academies have created a new PhD research post focussing on young people’s friendships and their relationship to higher education aspiration. This four year studentship has been awarded to Krystal Douglas who began her research in October 2015 supported by […]

Opportunities for students to spend time with some of the world’s leading designers who have been awarded Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the RSA for sustained excellence and significant benefit.

Transforming participation and engagement in the performing arts Developing the creative capacities of teachers and students The RSA’s Performing Arts Hub aims to develop an innovative, collaborative approach to transform pupil participation and outcomes in the performing arts. It will do this by creating sustainable partnerships between the RSA schools and a small number of cultural […]

A project enabling schools to engage with educational research Supporting schools to become research rich Louise Bamfield, RSA, Lorna Owen, Holyhead School and Mat Carpenter from RSA Academy, Tipton have been involved with developing an amazing research resource, Research Rich Schools. This is for everyone interested in research; whether getting started, going a bit further with research […]

Two cross-school networks have been established, one in English and one in Mathematics. Schools across the Family identified English and literacy as an area where focused and co-ordinated support…