![Walton High Academy Wates Construction have recently completed Walton High Academy, a new secondary school for Milton Keynes Council. The new three storey building at Brooklands Campus provides 1200 secondary school places, plus space for up to 400 pupils at 6th form level. Part of the Brooklands development, the school is located on a 9.3 green field hectare site within the Eastern Expansion Area of Milton Keynes, and the playing field is bounded by the Brooklands Ridge, which provides an acoustic and visual buffer to the nearby M1 motorway. Designed by Jestico & Whiles Architects, the new campus is a specialist sports and science school, and has 8 general science laboratories and 4 specialist laboratories, in addition to the general classrooms. Also provided is an assembly hall, a post 16 study area overlooking a large dining area with server and kitchen, and an ILA (integrated learning area) and library. Sports facilities include an activity / dance studio with mirrored wall and ballet bar, a sports hall with climbing wall, an athletics track with a field event area, a MUGA area with tennis and netball courts plus football and cricket pitches. The extensive landscaping incorporates an allotment garden area, extensive bike storage facilities and a large courtyard with seating and 750 lockers. Client: Milton Keynes Framework. Architect: Jestico & Whiles. Main Contractor: Wates Construction / Wates Group. Structural Engineer: AKS Ward. Services Engineer: Couch Perry & Wilkes / Hoare Lea. Client PM: Adrian Hewitt. Client PQS: Hewitt Freeborn Associates. Landscape Architect: Ares. Acoustic: HRS Services. Piling: Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering. Groundworks: Smiths Construction. Steel Frame: Hayes Fabrications. Precast Stairs: Creagh Concrete. Screeding Works: TCS. Roofing / Rooflights / Steel Doors: Phase 9. Steel Balustrades: AMI. Brickwork: Amici Building Contractors. External Render: Aire Valley Exteriors. Curtain Walling: Quality Glass. Drylining: SJP Contracts. MUGA: Blakedown Spo](https://www.mket.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Brooklnads-Astro-1.jpg)
Aims and Values
Aims, Values and Ethos
Milton Keynes Education Trust’s Statement of Aims
MKET is committed to securing social justice by providing its pupils with an exceptional education that promotes inclusion and embraces diversity. In this way the Trust will contribute to improving the life chances and life experiences of children at its schools.
We will realise our aims and secure sustainable school improvement through high quality transformational leadership, professional development and collaborative partnerships.
Our Mission and Purpose
The Trust’s mission and purpose is to create a local partnership of schools that work together to enhance and enrich the lives of children and young people by enabling them to make the most of outstanding learning opportunities within and beyond the curriculum; instilling an appreciation that there are no limits to what they can achieve and developing the attributes needed to successfully shape and respond to the future.
In this way we will bring out the very best in our children and young people.
Our Values
Our values are based on the secular principles of honesty, integrity, equality, tolerance and respect as well as an appreciation of individual and collective responsibility. These values underpin all the Trust’s work.
MKET schools will not discriminate on the grounds of ability, disability, faith, aptitude, social background or sex.
We believe the children, young people and staff at all the schools within the Trust are of equal value and importance and as such will have equal access to high quality learning and professional development. Where barriers exist, measures will be taken to remove these to enable everyone to have equality of opportunity.
The curriculum will value equally, in an age appropriate way, the teaching of knowledge and skills across all disciplines as well as the development of the personal attributes needed to contribute to and thrive in a rapidly changing world.
The achievements of all children, young people and staff will be recognised, valued and celebrated equally.
As reflected in MKET’s aims, our work is motivated by the commitment to securing social justice which shapes and guides every aspect of the Trust’s work.
Our Ethos
The Milton Keynes Education Trust’s educational ethos is reflected in the following quotation:
"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire." William B Yeats
The Academies and Free Schools within Milton Keynes Education Trust will all share the same ethos of inspiring a love of learning for learning’s sake and will promote the belief that there is no limit to what our children and young people can achieve given the opportunity and support.