This year, the faculty has focussed on developing the extended writing skills of year 9 students in order to enable them to be able to express themselves without the need for tight scaffolds. There have been several opportunities this year for year 9 students to use a homework task to develop and plan ideas for a longer piece of written work in the classroom. The feedback given by the teacher and from opportunities to share planning with other students has then enabled our year 9 students to engage with an extended written piece of purple pen to really demonstrate their higher order knowledge and understanding skills in a range of different pieces of work.

Character education in PACE

Character education is about ensuring all out students understand the values and vision behind our ARCH values and how in their PE, Music and Drama lessons we structure lessons to ensure we model these values.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their attendance and support at last weeks Year 11 AMP evening. The attendance to that event was extremely high and demonstrated just how important close collaboration with home and school is, particularly as the exam season approaches.

As we start the New Year, now is an ideal time to give you a short update on how our building work is going. Other than one day for snow, work has continued on-site and is on schedule. You would be forgiven for thinking that from a distance it looks like not a lot has happened. However, in reality the preparation for the main build could not be going better and is clearly vital before the main build. The foundations were dug out and set before Christmas and now the drainage for waste and rain and channels for electricity, water and communication cables are taking shape. At the end of this month the steel framing arrives. At that point you will start to see progress above ground. Here are a few images to show what has being happening. You might see the outline of a large building from the concrete foundations. Once the frame goes up it will all become very clear.

The National Church of England Academy is thrilled to share that construction of our brand new Sixth Form Centre is off to a fantastic start. This state-of-the-art facility is on track to open in September 2025 and represents a multi-million-pound investment in the future of post-16 education at the academy.

Stay tuned for more updates as the project progresses! 

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“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.” 
Flora Lewis