The 2025 EPQ Marketplace: A Night to Remember! 🎉
The 2025 EPQ Marketplace and student stands blew visitors away! 🌟 Students showcased their expertise and eloquently discussed their projects with passion and confidence.
A huge congratulations to the winners of the evening:
🏆 Most Informative – Jackson G
🎨 Most Creative – Abbie M
💬 Most Engaging – Isabel J
💪 Most Confident – Lucy B
🤯 Most Interesting Fact – Poppy B
Staff are incredibly proud of all EPQ students and wish them the best of luck with their assessed presentations! 👏✨
👏Thank-you to the Law Lecture Team at DMU for joining our ASPIRE programme this morning and sharing their experiences, hints and tips for a career in law!🎓
⚖Interesting and important to note that you definitely don’t need a Law A Level to do Law at University – choose History, English, Philosophy or any subject that assesses you in analysing, evaluating and essay writing!📝
📚 WORLD BOOK DAY COMPETITION 📚
Love a book? Review it in a tweet! 📝✨
Write a 280-character Twitter-style review of your favorite book—include the title, characters, themes & your thoughts!
🏆 Prizes for top reviews
📅 Deadline: 11th March | Winners: 14th March
📩 Submit to Mrs. Orton in the Library (email or handwritten)
🎫Year 7 & 8 Students will receive a £1.00 book token & the choice of a free world book day book from the following 5 titles during their library lessons📖
Open to all years—get reviewing! 🎉 #WorldBookDay
🎉 National Careers Week is Here! 🎉
This week, we’re celebrating National Careers Week, a fantastic opportunity for students to explore their future pathways! 🌟
Teachers will be encouraging conversations about different career opportunities in the classroom and wearing badges that celebrate their past careers.
📅 Mock Interviews – Thursday 6th March
To help prepare our students in Year 11 and 13 for the world of work, we’ll be holding mock interviews on Thursday, giving them valuable experience and confidence for their future careers! 👔💼
💡 Explore Careers at Home
Parents and pupils can also explore career options together with BBC Bitesize Careers. Check out their “What career is right for me?” quiz to discover exciting possibilities! 🚀
🔗 Take the quiz here: Quiz: What career is right for me? – BBC Bitesize
Here is the lunch menu for W/C 3rd March 2025🍽🧃🥪🍉🍩😋
🌟 Empowering Future Leaders at the Blaby Youth Conference! 🌟
Last week, 24 of our amazing Year 7-10 students took part in the annual Youth Conference at Blaby District Council! 🎤💡
💙 Morning Sessions:
✅ Hands-on resuscitation & first aid training 🏥
✅ Eye-opening cyber security insights 🔐
✅ Powerful knife crime awareness workshop & performance 🎭
⚖️ Afternoon Debate:
Our students joined local councillors to discuss how the council can better support young people in our community. Their voices were strong, their ideas were inspiring, and their leadership shone through! 👏
They left with valuable communication, citizenship, and leadership skills—and they were fantastic ambassadors for our academy. 💫
Hot Choc Friday 28th February! ☕☕
Students who were nominated by their teachers for achieving success, showing resilience or just being a fantastic, respectful student, were rewarded with a special hot chocolate breakfast with Mrs Aitcheson and Mr Williams!
Well done to all of the students who were nominated – they are all fantastic, amazing young people! ☕⭐
⭐⚽🏓Empowering Our Girls Through Sport!
💪🏅A group of our students recently took part in an inspiring GALs Day at Huncote Leisure Centre, where they trained as GALs Ambassadors! The day focused on understanding the barriers to female participation in sport and physical activity, equipping our students with the skills to create an action plan to encourage more girls to get involved.
🤸♂️🌟A highlight of the day was meeting British gymnast Becky Downie, who shared her incredible journey and motivated our students to drive positive change.
🏓✨Our newly trained ambassadors are now working on ways to promote girls’ sport within our school – watch this space for exciting initiatives!
⭐⭐⭐Thank you to the staff at the South Leicestershire School Sports Partnership and the Youth Sports Trust for organising the day!
Here is the lunch menu for W/C 24th February 2025🍽🧃🥪🍉🍩😋
Last week, our Year 12 and 13 students had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Phil Sterne, a Careers Coach and professional CV writer with experience in recruitment for companies like Amazon and Alton Towers.
Phil’s talk provided invaluable insights on choosing the right career path and gave students a step-by-step guide to crafting a standout CV.
To support this further, parents and carers of Year 12 & 13 students have been sent a Free Teenager CV Template, offering useful resources to help their young person with CV writing.
Students found the session incredibly informative and inspiring—a big thank you to Phil for sharing his expertise! 👏
