Alternative provision academy · Suffolk
First Base Ipswich Academy
- Alternative provision
- Ages 3–8
Term dates
Alternative provision academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Suffolk council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 12 May 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Alternative provision academy
- Phase
- Alternative provision
- Ages
- 3–8
- Pupils
- 0 (capacity 12)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- RAEDWALD TRUST
- Phone
- 01473719553
- Address
- Raeburn Road, Ipswich, IP3 0EW
- Website
- raedwaldtrust.org
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.