Emma Needham

Director of Achievement for Arts & Sports at Bedford Academy | Previous Head of PE | Teacher of Food, Nutrition and PE 🍎🤸🏽‍♀️⚾️

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

Year 7/8 Girls Football absolutely smashed it today! After finishing top of their group, we took the final to penalties ⚽️ Sadly we lost the shoot out but to finish 🥈 place was such a fantastic achievement! Well done girls 👏🏻 Miss Mitchell is super proud of you all ☺️

[BA Performing Arts @BedAcadPA]

Dance Show tickets are now live!🕺🏽🌟

Come and support our talented dancers as they shine on stage and celebrate their love for dance!

📅 Tuesday 25th March 2025
🕒 6:30-8:30pm (Doors Open 6pm)
🎟️ £5 via the BoxOffice
https://t.co/W47rmr8Jc8
🎟️ £6 Cash on the door

#TheBAWay

[Emma Needham @MrsENeedham]

Looks like a great day 🪩🩷🙌🏽 thank you for taking them Mrs A!

[MrsVAtkinson @MrsVAtkinson1]

Fantastic experience for our Dance Academy students taking part in workshops at @ Pineapple Dance Studios.

Great opportunity to take class like a professional with industry creatives

[MrsVAtkinson @MrsVAtkinson1]

A day of deadlines for KS4 dancers

Year 10 completing component 1 coursework and our fantastic year 11s performing their component 2 pieces!

A lot of hard work has gone into the past 13weeks. Very proud of our dancers ✨

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

Year 7 girls started their district league tonight 🏀 we drew 4-4 and lost 8-2! ⭐️ Carvellah scored all 6 of our points - well done team 👏🏻 we go again next week ☺️

[Emma Needham @MrsENeedham]

Army Ration Pack Challenge day was so much fun last week , @SixthFormBA Level 3 Food students enjoyed cooking a starter, main and dessert with only ration ingredients! Super impressed with their creations, thank you to our wonderful visitors #careers

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

Year 8 girls playing Basketball against @STM_Sport and @SharnbrookAca 🏀

[Emma Needham @MrsENeedham]

What a lovely bunch… go on the boys ⚽️💪🏽

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

A superb team performance for the Year 7A team, who won 7-2 against Sharnbrook. Both sides played some excellent football & were well drilled ⭐️ Alisia playing her first game in goal due to injuries 🤯 Daniel S scored all 7 goals - and was absolutely unplayable! 💥 24 in 6 games

[MrsVAtkinson @MrsVAtkinson1]

BA Dance Academy’s first ever dance competition was a success!
🥈>16HipHop solo
🥉<16HipHop group
🥇🥈🥉>16 contemporary solos
🥇<16 contemporary solo

Finally, 🥇 the highest score of the day with 40/40, contemporary group! We were even asked to perform again by the judges ✨

[Emma Needham @MrsENeedham]

@MrsVAtkinson1 Amazing 🤩 well done everyone 👏🏽👯‍♀️

[Impact @ImpactWales]

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[Emma Needham @MrsENeedham]

The neatest book I ever did see 😲👏🏽 amazing presentation and content from Tanzeela in Y10 Food! #BA⭐️

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

Our Year 7/8 and 9/10 Girls Rugby teams ready for their 7s tournaments this afternoon 🏉 for many this will be their first experience of contact rugby!

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

We took 31 x Year 10 and 11 Sport Studies students BMX cycling at @LeeValleyVP today to help with their OAA coursework write ups! They did us proud and were absolutely fantastic from start to finish 👊🏼

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

A huge well done to our KS3 and KS4 PE Stars of the Week ⭐️ Daya in Year 8 and Leyton in Year 10 👏🏻

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

Well done to the Year 8 Girls football team who won 1 and lost 1 tonight in the district league! A huge improvement from week 1 😊 👏🏻 ⚽️

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

Superb performance from the Year 7A team who go from strength to strength each week! Taking on feedback and acting on it with each session and fixture! Dominant 6-1 victory in the district league! Alisia ⚽️ Bentley ⚽️ and Danny ⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️ - one of which was an overhead kick 🤯

[Bedford Academy PE @Bed_AcadPE]

Year 10 lads made it 2 wins from 2 in the district league with a 58-9 win 🏀 Eric was the standout performer ⭐️ but the loudest cheer of the night came when Zane finally scored his first basketball for the school 😁