News and Events

The NHS are offering the flu immunisation in the form of a nasal spray to all students in Years 7-9, and will be visiting the Academy on Thursday 19th January to administer this. If you have a child in Year 7, 8, or 9, please either provide or decline consent using this form as soon as possible.

The Albion Foundation offers a club for students in KS3 (Years 7-9) every Thursday during term-time, 4:30 – 6:30pm in the Media Suite at the Hawthorns Stadium. The youth engagement club aims to support the development of skills such as socialising, leadership, and communication. They also offer academic support with Independent Learning. For more details contact them here.

A reminder that the Academy closes for the festive season on Friday 9th December; students finish at 12:30pm and may wear a Christmas Jumper over their Business Dress on this day if they wish.  In preparation for Christmas, we have shared some helpful links below for parents/carers planning to gift electronic gadgets to their children.

With the ongoing cost of living crisis, it is important we are more supportive of one another than ever before. As an Academy, we have begun to put measures in place to support our students and families at this time and we would like to foster the wider community spirit by creating a preloved Business Dress and Sports Kit store of items you may no longer need which can then be shared and redistributed within our community.

A local sporting company, ELP Sports, are offering a Football Camp for Year 7 and 8 students over the October half-term. This will run at the Academy from Monday 24th to Thursday 27th October 2022, 10am – 2pm. The cost is £25 for the week/£10 per day. For any information, questions, and/or to book, please email them here or call 07342 883919.

Yesterday we reflected on World Mental Health Day in the Academy. In light of this, and the upcoming National Stress Awareness Day on 2nd November, we are sharing a free Parents’ Guide to Teenage Anxiety and Stress provided generously through the organisation ‘The Parents’ Guide to’. You can download your copy of this helpful resource here.

Studio School and Sixth Form, as part of our Trust family, would like to warmly extend an invitation for their upcoming Open Evening to our Academy community.

We encourage parents and carers to consider how they can support RSE at home, and proudly promote online sessions through Brook to support. These sessions aim to provide parents/carers with the confidence and skills to discuss healthy relationships with their children, and to support the mandatory RSE curriculum that students will be learning in their Wellbeing Inspire lessons. In addition, some sessions will focus on supporting young people with emotional wellbeing.

We have been notified by Ofsted that the Academy will receive its routine inspection on 21st and 22nd September. The lead inspector will be Chris Stevens, HMI.

We join the nation in mourning and express our deepest sympathies following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her dedication to our country, her other realms and territories, and the Commonwealth is unparalleled and we thank her for her service.