Our 'Community Minded, Driven, Aspirational' values mean that learning is considered to be a partnership between students, staff and parents. We aim to create an environment based on encouraging students to aspire for excellence as a result of the delivery of high quality teaching and learning across the school.

The teaching at Bedford Academy is designed to be engaging, exciting and challenging. We want all our students to be fully prepared for their futures by providing them with a range of academic opportunities and developing their character so that they leave us as well-rounded, employable young people.

At Bedford Academy lessons last for 1 hour. Our staff work hard so that all students are challenged and supported to make sustained and substantial progress in all aspects of their studies. This is achieved through:

Consistent High Expectations

The high expectations underpinned by The BA Golden Five mean that lessons are conducted in a positive working environment that is conducive to high quality teaching and learning. Teachers use the information available to them to plan lessons that meet the individual needs of the students we teach.

Stretch and Challenge

All lessons contain a variety of learning activities and tasks to ensure that students are engaged and challenged. Teachers employ a range of strategies that offer the opportunity to transfer, reinforce and extend the knowledge and skills of the students they teach. This includes a focus on high quality questioning.

High Quality Feedback

As we look to foster a love of learning in our students and develop independent and resilient learners, our students will receive high quality feedback that provides students with clear next steps on what they need to do to improve and develop the quality of their work. This feedback is provided through a variety of “no written marking” strategies to ensure that the feedback is immediate, whilst also reducing the workload of our teaching staff.