On Friday 17th May our Year 6 will be visiting British Airways head office to find out about a career in aviation, learning all about the many roles that exist and visiting a workplace.
Year 6 SATs start on Monday 13th May until Thursday 16th May
We have been invited to take 15 of our Year 3 pupils to attend the ‘Tackling Health Festival – Northampton Saints Day of Rugby’ on Monday 29th April at Franklins Gardens in Northampton. The children will have an introduction to Northampton Saints, then a behind the scenes tour. They will then take part in a healthy sandwich making workshop followed by a Tag Festival Training Session on the pitches in the afternoon
On 24th April 2019, the Year 5 classroom will be raided by Hrothgar the Viking! Hrothgar will be taking the children to his camp to discover the life of a Viking Warrior – they will learn all about trading, the gods, life and death, gender roles, food and drink, runes and Viking games. Presentation is a mixture of show and tell, Q&A and story-telling in which the children get to play the characters.
The Academy will be closed on Friday 5th April for a Teacher Training Day. The Academy will reopen to pupils on Tuesday 23rd April.
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Wednesday - 3rd April - 3.20pm to 6.00pm and Thursday 4th April - 3.20pm to 6.00pm
Please book your appointment time with class teacher.
The children will be selling drinks, cakes and sweets on their stalls. There will also be raffle tickets on sale.
All profit made from their business will be going to the Corby Nightlight, which is the local charity the children decided on.
Year 5 and 6 have been taking part in a weekly ‘Let’s Play Samba’ drumming workshop since January. The workshops will be finishing at the end of this term.
The children have all been practising really hard and we would like to invite you in to see them in action on Thursday 28th March at 10am.
We have organised for ‘The Ministry of Chocolate’ to come and visit Year 3 children. To support their learning in class, this workshop will take children on an exciting, comprehensive and very carefully crafted ‘chocolate journey’. The workshop has a very high visual and physical stimulus content. The children will get to see and touch real cocoa pods, real cocoa beans and taste a little bit of cocoa nib
Friday 22nd March - Grand opening of the track and 'Race for Life' raising money for Cancer Research (sponsor forms have been sent home) - There will also be a Football Coach visit. This will be a Sports Mufti Day - children to wear PE clothing suitable for running, jogging and fast walking. We are asking for a donation of £1 which will contribute to sporting equipment.
Year 6 to visit the Stibbington Centre in Peterborough to experience a re-created ‘Evacuation Day’. On Evacuation Days they turn the clock back to the 1940s. In the role of real children who were evacuated from London to Stibbington during WWII, the day begins with arrival at the nearby steam railway centre. From there a learning walk takes children through the wartime countryside to the Centre where lessons include In line with the National Curriculum and to support our learning about World War 2, we have arranged for gas mask drill and air raids.