Willow Primary is a small school with an attached Specialist Resource Centre catering for 210 pupils in total. They are also part of SAND Academies Trust.

Our aim is to make every one of our pupils feel valued and successful, to achieve and understand themselves as individuals. The children are at the heart of everything we do, developing academically and socially in our friendly environment which offers safety and security whilst nurturing confidence and independence.

Our school empowers all children to fulfil their true potential by fostering their love of learning; nurturing their personal development; and enabling them to feel proud of their own achievements.

Willow Primary Academy’s mascot ‘Willow the Lion’ is linked to our school emblem, a willow tree. Willow embodies our overarching school value of PRIDE.

Adults and pupils at Willow Primary Academy are expected to show the following PRIDE values in all they do.

PRIDE also expresses how stakeholders at Willow feel about everything that happens at our school. Adults will model our school mission statement – ‘Taking PRIDE in all we do’ – and this mind-set will be expected of the children and parents too.

SAND Academies Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. All staff will require pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS, satisfactory Health clearance and evidence of Right to Work in the UK. Applicants who have lived or worked overseas within the last 10 years must provide an equivalent DBS certificate or Police clearance from the country that they resided or worked in. Prohibition checks will also be completed if necessary.