Lift Montgomery

Lift Montgomery is an award winning and high achieving school with strong leadership and a commitment to staff development.

We are a 3 form entry primary and proud to serve the communities around Central Birmingham. Over the last three years, significant investment in our building and commitment from our talented staff team has meant that attainment has risen and we are an Outstanding school.

We work closely with our primary partner Lift Percy Shurmer, and we share resources, staff, training and place an emphasis on effective and tailored professional development.

Lift Montgomery and Lift Percy Shurmer work in partnership to provide our children with an outstanding education. As partner schools we have an overarching vision and shared values that bind our schools together. Through our collaboration both schools are strengthened. The efficient use of shared resources enables the partnership to provide additional resources to our pupils and offer a wide range of opportunities for pupils, parents, staff and the wider community. We ensure success for all our pupils through innovative and inspirational teaching , as both schools work together to share best practice.

Lift Montgomery and Lift Percy Shurmerare led by an Executive Principal and one management board. Each school has a Head of School. Their role is to ensure that each school gains the optimum benefit from the partnership, as they translate the values and vision to ensure success for each unique school.

Our Curriculum

We believe that children learn best when their learning experiences are evocative, therefore we teach most of our subjects through a connected curriculum.

This works by delivering a different theme in each year group for each term throughout the year. The curriculum is planned so that as many learning experiences as possible are linked to this theme; this allows the children to see that their skills are all connected. During the children's learning we try to integrate as many real life experiences as possible that are related to the area they are studying.

Literacy, Numeracy and ICT underline our curriculum to ensure that the key skills children need for success, are fully learned before the children move on to secondary education. Therefore, our curriculum is skills based and children learn to apply these skills in every part of their learning.

To view our curriculum across the year please click here

Reasons to come and work with us

• The chance to work in a Talk for Writing training school
• High quality CPD for all staff, including bespoke leadership programmes
• Exciting opportunities to work within a Hearing Resource
• Two well resourced schools with opportunities for development and promotion in both
• The opportunity to work across both schools
• Work alongside artists in residence, storytellers, specialists in outdoor learning
• Be part of our journey to excellence; innovation and inspirational ideas are welcomed and encouraged
• Opportunities to become Specialist Leaders in Education
• Friendly, supportive staff. Social events arranged throughout the year
• Action research encouraged and funded appropriately
• Polite, respectful children who are willing to learn

Our Specialism and Awards

Lift Montgomery have won a local award in the Key Stage 2 category of the Pupil Premium Awards 2016. This celebrates that we have used our pupil premium funding in a highly effective way to improve the performance of disadvantaged pupils, including those who are currently or were previously looked after.

WHY JOIN OUR SCHOOL?

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

Our mission:

1. We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
2. With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
3. We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences  that will support you on your professional learning journey with Lift Schools.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme).  Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our Lift Schools Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.