Welcome to The JCB Academy
The JCB Academy is due to open in September 2010 for students aged between 14 and 19 from Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Derbyshire and Derby City. We will offer a well-rounded education, specialising in Diplomas in Engineering, Manufacturing and Global Business Studies, along with the National Curriculum entitlement.
The JCB Academy is to be based in Rocester, in a sympathetically renovated and extended, grade 2 listed mill, where work is already under way to create a light, airy and eco-friendly building that is designed for 21st century education. Power for our building will be provided by our own turbine, driven by the original mill race.
Our main industrial sponsor is JCB, which, despite being one of the world’s most successful manufacturers of construction equipment, remains a family-run business, with strong family values.
The JCB Academy will embrace similar values, offering a caring, challenging environment with a modern leadership structure that is well resourced to promote independent learning.