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Year 5 and 6 Open Evening… Tuesday 24 September!

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SPORTS DAY 2024.

Today brought the sunshine, the results and a day full of enjoyment.

At the end of the day, we crowned Asia as our 2024 Sports Day Champions.

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SPORTS DAY.

Big day tomorrow for the Academy… PE departments alarms are set very early. Possibly before the milkman has even been.

Reminder that you need to be in PE kit and ensure you have a drink for the day as temperatures are set to be 24 degrees and sun cream up!

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READERS CELEBRATION.

Our millionaire readers were invited to a special event where they all received a certificate and Amazon voucher from Mr Palmer.

Mrs Harding and Mrs Wilkinson are super proud of all of you for hitting such high numbers.

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YORK UNI VISIT.

Students worked on projects looking at how to save the planet, global warming and world problems.

They came up with several ideas to help!

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THANK YOU.

Thank you to our leaders for their help in transition this week and well done to our students who achieved the most praise points.

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ATHLETICS.

Yesterday, the PE department ticked off another event in a busy two weeks for them by taking a VERY large group of students out to M’Boro School athletics.

There were some fantastic results and every one of them did us proud.

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EUROS FINAL.

Come on England! Outwood Acklam are supporting you. ‘HEYYY JUDE! NA NA NANANANA!’

To end the term and school year we are having culture week that will cumulate to Culture day on Friday.

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YEAR 6 TRANSITION.

Day one completed! There have been a load of fun activities today and many more to come tomorrow…

Same time and same place.

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FAB FRIDAY.

Not many left this year, can we get a huge group photo before the end of the year. Maybe one that spans the length of the upper balcony…

Really test Mrs Robinson’s photography skills.

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YEAR 6 PARENTS.

We hope the Year 6s are as excited as we are to meeting them all on Tuesday, ready for a fun filled two days. Some sleepless nights with excitement.

Tutors are getting prepped too for Monday night so you can all be introduced to them.

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CHARITY WEEK.

Year 7 Charity Week is coming! There’ll be a movie night, bake sale, bracelet stall, raffle, and an exciting football tournament. All in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. See FB for full list of events

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SCIENCE CLUB.

How amazing do these colours look?

Science club this week explored identifying ions with flame.

A feel of Disney’s ‘Elemntals’ about them…

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YEAR 10 MOCKS.

Tomorrow is the final day of mocks! No more smell of bagels wafting through the maths corridor.

Please see details for the final exams…

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YEAR 8 BEAMISH.

It wouldn’t be Thursday without a throwback, we threw it all the way back to the 1900s today at Beamish.

History department did a stellar job! Hopefully the fresh air and steps has given the Y8s an early night…

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YEAR 10 EXAMS.

Please see details about tomorrow’s exam below.

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STUDENT ELECTION DAY.

Tomorrow might be a monumental day in the UK but we had our own very important day at Acklam.

Students took to voting their new Prime Minister today - everybody did amazingly well. Votes will be verified and checked!

Announcement next week.

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U16 GIRLS FOOTBALL.

Tonight the U16 girls were celebrating winning the league with a pizza night with Miss Taylor.

The rest of the PE department made sure they dropped by too, obviously to congratulate!

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YEAR 10 MOCK EXAMS.

Please find details for the mock exam tomorrow. Slowly but surely getting towards to the end of them now…

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YEAR 8 GEOGRAPHY.

Today some of our Year 8s took in the scenery at Whitby and conducted tests around the town… the day wouldn’t be right without a little treat too!