World Mental Health Day is 10th October 2021. On Wednesday 6th October, the Academy organised a range of activities and raised over £700 for Young Minds - http://www.youngminds.org.uk/
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Congratulations to Mr. K. Danson and the Academy's Eco Team on achieving the Eco-Schools Green Flag!
The Eco-School programme enables pupils to analyse their operations and become more sustainable. A key element is the involvement of pupils in the whole process, including monitoring, action planning and decision making leading to ownership of the programmes and an increase in their sense of responsibility to the environment and the local area.
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Congratulations to Mr. Dunn and the Careers Department for securing the Skills Builder Bronze Award. The award recognises a commitment to the development of essential skills such as: speaking, listening, teamwork, leadership, creativity, problem solving, aiming high and staying positive.
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Unfortunately, due to the restrictions associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Academy's annual Open Evening will be a virtual event. Please click on Open Evening Virtual Event
The Academy recorded another outstanding set of GCSE results.
In terms of the % of pupils that achieved a grade 9-4 (what used to be A*-C), this was 95% in English, 92% in Mathematics, and 91% in both Mathematics and English. The Academy also recorded a progress 8 score of +0.84.
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On Wednesday 2nd September, the PE Department’s Race to Tokyo 2020 Challenge came to an end. We exceeded our target of 9519 km / 5915 miles to Tokyo, achieving a phenomenal final distance of 9897 km / 6150 miles! Not only did we make it Tokyo, we completed 9 marathons whilst there - an incredible achievement!
On 2nd July, the Academy was awarded Healthy Schools Status for a further two years. The status is awarded according to a school meeting the following: Personal Social Health Education (PSHE); Healthy Eating; Physical Activity; and Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health.
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Congratulations to all those involved in the Duke of Edinburgh Award 2019-20 which included 1521 hours of learning a skill; 1378 hours of physical activity; and 1365 hours of working towards a skill. Further, the social value of these hours was recorded as £6616.35!
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