Welcome to Ark Blake Academy and thank you for your interest in our school. We are a thriving school with huge ambition based in East Croydon. Opened in September 2020, we are consistently oversubscribed in every year group and now have a full roll of students in Years 7–11. We are now becoming the school of choice for the community that we serve. At Ark Blake Academy, we believe that each of our students is born with unique potential for greatness and can take responsibility to achieve this. Our mission for the school is to embed a powerful knowledge-rich curriculum and provide fantastic opportunities for character development, all underpinned by an environment where exemplary behaviour is the norm. In terms of our school culture, it is based around the simple but powerful belief of 'working hard, being kind and taking responsibility'. We aim to become a leading school in London as quickly as possible by living out this day to day belief. B ehaviour that is built upon our ' work hard, be kind and take responsibility' ethos L earning that is nurtured through our calm, purposeful and warm environment