Faculty Updates

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”  Flora Lewis  I begin my blog this year with a quote from Flora Lewis an influential American journalist of the 20th century. As the languag...

Every time you turn on a light switch, do any form of exercise or turn on a tap, you are relying on processes and ideas that are part of the science curriculum at the National Academy. Our aim throughout the time that students are studying with us is to give them opportunities to understand and expl...

How do I use leadership skills in PACE lessons? Here are 6 important leadership skills students learn from participating in Physical education and performing arts (Drama and Music) that can be applied to many roles and careers – even outside of performing arts and sport. 1. Persistence...

The maths department welcomes our new teachers for this academic year; Miss Copeland (maths) and Mr Bolster (maths and computing). We have started our year off in computing by using BBC microbits with year 9, which are small micro computers, to teach the principles of coding.  Our year 9 stu...

This year in MFL we are delivering our newly revised Key Stage 3 Curriculum. We have worked to develop a curriculum that is both engaging and allows knowledge and skills acquired to be continually interleaved and re- visited throughout the three years of language learning. This prepares students ful...

How do you keep five years’ worth of information in your head? And how do you make sure that all of that information will be there when the ‘exam panic’ hits in the hall?   These are questions that we have been thinking hard about in the science faculty recently. The nat...