Our school promotes a warm and caring community where children are challenged to achieve endless possibilities. Our commitment to creating a culture of excellence is contagious and is embedded across our school. We pride ourselves in providing an exciting and creative curriculum rooted in outstanding Early Years principles. We capture our children’s interests and talents to help them grow into independent, confident, and successful learners. Our dedicated staff work together to ignite an enthusiasm and lifelong passion for learning in every child by giving them the best education. The sea of happy children’s faces and the continuing first-class results achieved are testimony to that. 

We firmly believe that the key to promoting successful learning for every child lies in the strong partnership we form with parents and this is important to us. 

We have excellent facilities which only a school of this size can provide, including a multi-purpose room with cooking facilities, a huge, covered outdoor classroom for our Foundation children, and an incredible outdoor learning environment for all, including a wildlife area and pond and extensive fields and playgrounds. The children also grow lots of fruit and vegetables which are used in our school kitchen as part of our hot and healthy school meals. 

We are open from 7.45am every day, with our Breakfast Club, and stay open until 6pm with our after-school club. In addition, we have extra-curricular before and after-school clubs including football coaching, tennis coaching, Elfin Strings, dance, Bug Buddies, lego club, yoga and gymnastics.  

We were one of the first primary schools to convert to Academy status, in June 2011. From January 2017 we became part of the Inspiring Futures Through Learning Multi Academy Trust (IFtL) along with Olney Middle School and many others. 

The very best way to find out about our school is to visit us while we are at work. If you would like to do so or require any further information, please contact us. We are always proud to show people around our school. You can visit our website on https://www.olneyinfantacademy.co.uk/.

Head Teacher - Mrs Sarah Armitage

Benefits of Joining IFtL

Joining the IFtL family has a large number of benefits, most notably our commitment to supporting our staff through CPD and professional development. We offer high-quality CPD to help staff and school leaders grow and develop in their careers.

We are committed to providing a wide range of opportunities to all, in a supportive, collaborative and nurturing environment.

Regardless of the role or level, our staff have the opportunity to work with colleagues across the trust to collaborate, network and grow.

As our Trust develops, we are dedicated to upholding our supportive, caring approach to our staff. Our family of schools work closely to ensure we work with the same goals, values and ethos.

Our staff are committed to supporting and working for the future generation of our Communities. In addition, we offer a wide range of benefits to our staff which include:

• Employee Benefits portal - This offers discounts and cash rewards in gyms, shops, cinema, options for health cash plans.
• Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured - Free counselling and advice for employees and their families (T & C's apply)
• Tax-Free Cycle Scheme
• Eye Tests and glasses vouchers (subject to terms and conditions)
• We follow (as a minimum) Teachers Terms and Conditions
• Graded Pay Scales (Support Staff) – Based on performance management
• CPD, Coaching and Mentoring
• Annual leave (Support Staff Only) – Minimum 27 days plus 8 days Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance Scheme (Support Staff Only) - Death benefit of 3x annual salary if in LGPS scheme for support staff
• Pension (Support staff) - As a member of the LGPS you contribute a percentage of your pensionable pay each month and IFtL will contribute a minimum of 20% of your monthly salary.

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Each of our teams, schools and communities is Unique yet our collaboration, co-operation and care for each other brings us Together.  At IFtL, this means creating a workspace that respects your individuality and supports your ambitions, development, security and wellbeing. 

Our Futures Together…

IFtL has a clear strategy ahead – Future Focused on Strong Schools and Leadership of Equitable Futures.  See full details in our Strategic Plan 2022-25 below.

We’d love you to be part of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

Safeguarding Statement

Inspiring Futures through Learning (IFtL) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including with past employers and the Criminal Records Bureau.