Strive Academy

We are an alternative educational provider for pupils between the ages of 11-16 with SEMH needs.

Our team of staff is led by our Headteacher and DSL, a former Assistant Headteacher, with 21 years of experience in three mainstream schools. Part of his responsibilities as a senior school leader was leading on behaviour, inclusion, alternative provision, and reading.

We combine nurture with aspiration. Our pupils receive a curriculum of maths, English, science, geography, history and PSHE, plus an enrichment curriculum which includes PE, life skills, and careers. We prioritise emotional regulation, respect and manners. We achieve this through a behaviour curriculum, building strong relationships, and mentoring our pupils as individuals. Central to our mission is the ambition that 100% of them will go on to education, employment, or training.

We offer placements from one to five days, which include short-term step-outs to longer-term placements. Our overarching aim is to improve our pupils' behaviour, emotional regulation, and general engagement with education, with a view to reintegrating them back into full-time mainstream education.

We share our school building with the Greek School of Leeds. (Children of the Greek Community have lessons there evenings and weekends.) It is a safe, well-designed, fully converted school (formerly a house) with five classrooms in a pleasant suburban area of north Leeds.

We are a small provision, educating a maximum of 20 pupils on any given day, with at least one member of staff for every four pupils.

We have in place the full range of necessary policies and practices that any high-quality Alternative Provision should offer. For example, a Single Central Record, a qualified DSL and deputy DSL, a safeguarding policy, a behaviour policy, a Health and Safety Policy, an anti-bullying policy, a fire risk assessment, and public liability insurance.

Please get in touch if you would like more information, or if you would like to arrange a visit.