Community

Community

CCF

Brompton Academy Combined Cadet Force

The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is that of a youth movement sponsored by Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, to provide a challenging environment in Brompton Academy so that students may develop power of leadership by means of opportunities and training to promote self-reliance, responsibility, resourcefulness, endurance, perseverance and a sense of service to the community. The opportunities are plentiful with the CCF and students are invited to attend lots of adventurous and physical activities throughout their time with the CCF.

DofE

UKAT Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

Brompton Academy offers Year 9, 10 and 12 students a chance to participate in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE). The DofE programme has been successful in enhancing school learning and achievement, securing personal and social development and encouraging good citizenship. The Award is recognised internationally and is well regarded by Higher Education establishments and employers.

Spiritual, Moral, Social, and Cultural

We offer a vibrant and healthy community programme for our students at the Academy with a focus on engaging young people in out of hours activities to expand and explore their own personal growth through a variety of Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural programmes which are key to the expansion of our students understanding and awareness around themselves and the wider world around them. A flavour of these programmes might include: Black History Month, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and questioning (LGBTQ+) events, World Day for Cultural Diversity. These are just a few of the events that we bring to our Academy community and we push the boundaries to educate and celebrate these wonderful differences amongst our students and staff. Every year we enjoy an array of tasty colourful cake delights as we encourage our Year 7 and Year 8 students to participate in the momentous LGBTQ+ rainbow cake competition, which results in some serious cake sampling to bring us to choose our overall winners.

Wellbeing

Promoting health and wellbeing at Brompton Academy is a core part of our values and ethos. Our holistic approach to education supports the high expectations we have for all our students both academically and socially. We want our young people to be equipped for the challenges that they will face in the wider world, and at times, they will need additional support during their time at the Academy. This happens through the excellent provision for our student wellbeing.

We offer a range of different positive interventions to promote healthy emotional headspaces and work with a team of highly skilled external professionals and in-house staff to support our students at the Academy. The offer includes:

• A dedicated Assistant Principal for each key stage leading a Pastoral Team for each year group
• A Mini School Tutor as the first point of contact for our students and families
• Wellbeing and Safeguarding Officers
• Counsellors
• Mindfulness programmes during Mini School time
• A robust Personal and Professional Development programme (PPD) (incorporating PSHE and RSHE) that explores mental wellbeing, its challenges and coping strategies
• UKAT Furry Friends Dog Mentoring Programmes
• Amazing Minds Year 7 targeted students providing coaching and mindfulness programmes
• Student Social Workers

Wellbeing and a trauma informed approach is paramount if we are too ensure that our students are emotionally well balanced and able to access learning across the Academy.