A constant theme in recent weeks has been the busy school calendar – and I love it!
Thank you to Year 11s for the efforts put into the exam season which has now finished.
Staff are already working hard to ensure there is a swift turnaround on the marking of papers.
That is because our “evening of ingredients” is coming up on Monday, 6th December.
More than 100 of our Year 11s have already said they would be attending the event with their parents / carers.
You will recall this is the night they will receive their results in envelopes and then have an opportunity to discuss their futures with their tutors and a host of external guests.
It looks like being our busiest night at the Academy for more than two years.
Thank you to our Achievement Team Leader (ATL) for Year 11 Miss Walker for arranging the evening and driving the response.
Another big event is happening in the Academy next Wednesday (24th), the Year 8 parents’ evening.
It occurred to me that, because of the pandemic, this will be the first secondary face-to-face parents’ evening for those young people.
It might be one of the reasons – along with the considerable efforts of ATL for Year 8 Mr Stainton and the team of tutors – that 147 out of 162 students have confirmed their attendance with a parent / carer.
That is a great buy in from those families and we look forward to meeting them properly for the first time.
Significant numbers of Years 7 and 8 enjoyed a visit to the cinema today, the first rewards trip the school has held in a long time. They deserved the time out for their efforts.
A reminder we will also be hosting a faith evening at the academy tonight in the atrium between 3.30pm and 4.30pm to mark Inter-Faith Week.
Tomorrow, it is non-uniform to mark BBC Children in Need Day. Please don’t forgot to contribute the £1 for each student through Parent Pay.
Finally, I mentioned at the start about our busy calendar. An important part of that are our extra-curricular clubs and activities.
Please don’t think that, because they have started, there won’t be space. It might be circumstances have changed, meaning time has been freed up that was not available at the start of half term.
It is never to late to join a club or activity. The doors are always open to opportunities.
