Departments

At the RSA Academy Arrow Vale, we believe that the Art Department is an open minded, forward thinking and success driven unit that consistently strives to ensure all teachers and pupils have a safe learning environment that promotes independence and achievement.

Business Studies a small but successful department at RSA Academy Arrow Vale which boasts a variety of courses at both KS4 and KS5. Students are given a choice of vocational or non-vocational subjects to choose from in order to suit their needs.

The Design & Technology faculty at RSA Academy Arrow vale believes in treating students as individuals with talents to be explored and celebrated.

The English department fully supports the whole school aims and intends to provide the working environment where these can be achieved.

The Humanities Faculty comprises History and Geography. Highly respected by leading universities and employers, these subjects develop critical thinking, the ability to use evidence in support of arguments and pupils’ extended writing and speaking.

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other." - Bill Gates

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts." - Winston Churchill

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree." - Aristotle

The Media department fully supports the whole school aims and intends to provide the working environment where these can be achieved.

"Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best." - Henry Van Dyke

"Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, 'I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,' then you're a winner." - Wolfgang Schadler

A Level Psychology is well suited to those students who have an interest in pursing the subject as a career, such as Educational Psychologist or Clinical Psychologists. It compliments subjects such as Health and Social Care, Biology or Forensic Science.

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." - Carl Sagan

Arrangements for student support and care at RSA Academy Arrow Vale have been designed to provide a holistic approach to addressing the personal, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs of every young person.

We aim to make teaching outside of the classroom as valuable and worthwhile as possible. We have created several resources which students and parents can use to consolidate and accelerate pupils progress.

“Learning outside the classroom is about raising young people’s achievement through an organised, powerful approach to learning in which direct experience is of prime importance.”