On Tuesday evening, the final recital of the Ashcroft Poetry Competition 2017 took place in the drama studio. Student from Years 7, 8 and 9 stepped into the spotlight and performed a mixture of their favourite work by published poets and their self-penned poems in front of an audience of parents and teachers
Year 7 and 8 Honours students had the opportunity to visit the Winton Gallery at the Science Museum and introduced to the powerful stories about the work of mathematicians in the broadest sense, from salespeople to sailors, aircraft engineers to bankers, and gamblers to garden designers.
Last Saturday, our Oxbridge group of 20 students attended an Oxbridge preparation day to support them in their applications to either Oxford or Cambridge university.
Praise is due to the Year 9s below, who represented the Academy last Friday in the Hyde Park ‘Speak Up’ Challenge. They demonstrated excellent debating skills, confidence and intelligence, and were impeccably well behaved throughout the day.
Last week saw the conclusion of the 3rd annual English department Short Story Competition. Students were asked to submit entries in categories of children’s story, graphic novel, non-fiction and fiction, and we had a staggering number of entries across KS3 and KS4, reaching well above 350 in total.
Fantastic debating workshop held this week with a representative from the Debate Mate organisation.
On Thursday this week, we were host to two student ambassadors from St.George’s, University of London.
Praise is due to the Year 9 students for their conduct and enthusiasm on last Thursday’s trip to Hyde Park for the launch of the Speak Up! Challenge, organised by the Royal Parks in association with Debate Mate.
As part of the STEAM Club Rocket Car Club and subsequent recent test trial, 18 students attended the Bloodhound SSC regional finals at the Army Reserve Centre, West Ham this week. Bloodhound SSC is a nationwide schools STEM competition and we are very proud that our STEAM Club members made it through to this stage.
Sixty one students from Years 7-9 and staff attended an award trip to the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) this week. This formed the second part of the STEM Inspiration Award we won last November.
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We were fortunate enough to have a poet in our midst lastFriday. The renowned poet, Adisa the Verbaliser, came to Ashcroft and held a poetry workshop to a group of Year 7 and Year 8 students.
Congratulations to our newly appointed Head Student team who will take over from the present team with immediate effect.