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On Tuesday 6th November as part of the Schools Shakespeare Festival, a group of our students will be performing ‘The Tempest’ at Northern Stage in Newcastle, commencing at 7pm. Tickets will be pre-ordered and made available from our academy, at a cost of £7.50 per ticket. If  you would like to purchase tickets, please contact […]

One way we teach students to become better thinkers through dialogue is through our Image of the Week sessions. Each week, students are shown an image and asked to discuss what it makes them think, how it makes them feel,what it makes them wonder etc. The essence of sessions are captured by staff and students write […]

A Year 8 student decided to lose his long hair for charity. Duncan had his hair cut on Saturday 22nd September to raise money and support the Little Princess Trust charity . Duncan chose this charity because he wanted to donate his hair to children that have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or other illnesses. […]

I’m delighted to inform you that our new Café is now open! Café Ascent aims to provide students with hands on experience in catering and hospitality in a supported environment. This exciting new project forms part of the 16-19 study programme offered in each of the Sixth Forms across the Trust designed to prepare post […]

There are 3 disabled parking bays adjacent to the drop off zone and then a further 5 bays next to these. These spaces (including any available disabled bays**) can be used by both taxis and parents for dropping pupils off between 8.30 and 9am, and then for pick-up between 3.20 and 3.45. (**disabled parking reserved […]

Over the summer break, we have been able to make some changes to the car park layout and create some more spaces.  This gives us the opportunity to also look at how pupils come into school and leave at the end of the day. There is now a dedicated “drop off” zone at the front of […]

As of 10th August 2018, our new telephone number will be 03339991453 Thanks

  We were really excited and delighted to have a special visitor on Wednesday 28th March. Dr Suzie Imber is a planetary scientist and professor at Leicester University. She won a BBC TV series a few months ago called Astronauts: Do you have what it takes? where she went through the astronaut selection procedure. She […]

Friday 9th March 2018 Both staff and students loved dressing up as their favourite characters from literature. Students also enjoyed a Jackanory in forest school in the round house, decorating classroom doors to look like book covers, as well as a ‘Where’s Wally’ trail around the academy. All students were also given a World Book Day […]