The academy has a partnership with local English Premier League-club Crystal Palace dating back to the former Community School.

[2] The trust's founder Reverend Steve Chalke says "Turning round a school is sometimes a quick fix, it really, truly is".

This is a transition period from primary to secondary education, that builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding gained at primary school, and introduces youngsters who are starting from a lower than average base to wider, robust and challenging programmes of study needed to gain qualifications at Key Stage 4.

The revision of 2014, made the English syllabus concentrate on formal grammar, this is all tested by Key Stage 2 SATs.

This is alleged to prepare the student to subject oriented Key Stage 3, and is inspected by Ofsted, but remains controversial.