Our Vision

At Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams, colleagues and pupils will work at PACE – ensuring pride, ambition, care and excellence for self, school and city.

We will expect all members of our community to embrace these values. They will underpin everything we do as a community.

Our Name

Our school is named after Florence Jessie MacWilliams who was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1917. Her love for learning gained her a place at Cambridge University during a time when women’s education was not easily accessed. There, she completed a BA and MA followed by a PhD in mathematics at Harvard University. As a mathematician, Florence MacWilliams published ground-breaking work in coding theory and left a legacy of further breakthroughs in coding and women’s education in mathematics and computer science.

Our Specialism

Co-op Academy Florence MacWilliams will lead on STEM subjects’ science, technology, engineering, & mathematics to underpin the foundations of its academic curriculum. Working in close partnership with key institutions such as Keele University and the NHS, Florence MacWilliams aims to readdress the under representation of females in STEM subjects ensuring the STEM curriculum is accessible for
all students.

We want all our pupils to become confident speakers, open to articulate discourse and debate. The academy will achieve this through meaningful opportunities for pupils to explore social, cultural, spiritual and moral questions which affect their own lives and the lives of their community.

We will implement a model of high expectations and aspirations, ensuring students leave with the academic qualifications that will enable them to go to university or access higher level apprenticeships.