What a great effort from all our staff who turned into elf’s for Christmas Dinner Day.
Always a great day and the students really enjoyed seeing everyone dressed up. Our staff really are awesome 🎄🧝♀️🧝♂️🎅🏻
#teamSA
#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
Despite aching joints and old injuries playing up, the teachers defeated the 6th form football team 4-2 this evening. This year's game was organised by Tyler for Movember. So far, the students have raised over £400.
#Movember
#teamwork
👨⚽️
Are you ready for Swindon Academy does the Masked Singer 🎭🎤 Coming to screen near you via tutor time next week. 9th - Masked Singer Part 1, 10th - Guess Day and Voting, 11th - Masked Singer Part 2 (The Reveal).
#perfomance
#sing
#AreYouReady
Biggest shout out of the day goes to Mr Oke who got a bucket of food gunge tipped over him to raise money for
@BBCCiN
. What a great sport and he definitely deserved those cheers 👏🏻👏🏻⭐️⭐️
#Pudsey
#ChildrenInNeed2022
#awesome
Today we welcomed our new Year 7 for the first day of Base Camp. Great to see them looking so smart and ready to display our values of Work Hard, Be Kind, Take Responsibility. We are looking forward to seeing Year 11 tomorrow. 🦄🦁🐲🐻
#SAWay
#knowledgeispower
In the build up to our remembrance assembly students have created a finger print poppy display during lunchtime. Year 7 made poppies which have been displayed in the street
#RemembranceDay2021
#WeWillRememberThem
In our live tutor time this morning we revealed which member of staff was behind the mask. Some correct guesses and a few shocks🤯The biggest questions of the day being when is series 2? Our staff our awesome🙌and what a great way to end the term 🥸🐓🦜🐶
#awesome
#Competition
Last week we said goodbye to the class of 2022. Monday was Graduation🧑🎓, Tuesday was the reward trip to Thorpe Park 🎢 and Wednesday was Prom reward event 💃🕺
#Classof2022
#MakingMemories
#Proud
#Welldone
Some of our young carers made Pancakes and Welsh cakes at break time today. Everyone loved them and enjoyed celebrating both
#PancakeDay
and
#StDavidsDay
. Not sure what was more impressive, the cooking or Mr Warrens hat! 🥞🌼🏴🍥
More
#ChildreninNeed
fun with karaoke, penalty shootout, and a quiz. Mrs Drinkwater and Mrs Lawrence even got on the microphone for an S Club 7 classic. 🎤🎶 For extra donations students could even wear the golden jacket.
#Pudsey
#TogetherWeCan
🌟
We had a spectacular School Show to celebrate end of term. Thank you everyone who supported us through months of rehearsals and to all the families and friends who came to see us! Happy Easter 🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥
Today the whole school gathered for our Act of Remembrance. Staff and students from Y7-13 paying respects together to remember. Thank you T. Hatherall, C. Crickmar and J. Costa from the 6th Form for leading such a moving assembly
#RemembranceDay
After ABC week the YMCA returned at Sports Day 2022. All Colleges joining in whilst waiting for the results. Great atmosphere and a brilliant day, we’ll done
@SA_Sport_Dept
🙌🏻
#together
#fun
#sportsday
College bunting to welcome our first students back today. Great to see Year 7 and Year 11, looking forward to seeing Year 10 tomorrow. 🦄🦁🐲🐻
#BackToSchool
#WelcomeBack
It sure was coming home at SA yesterday. The big screens were down for a whole-school gathering to watch England’s first World Cup win.
#FIFAWorldCup
#community
#together
Another day fundraising for
@BBCCiN
and it was the staff who took on the karaoke challenge. Well done to Mr Harris, Mrs Boucher and Mrs Dodsworth for entertaining the students during lunch🎤🎶 👏🏻
#Pudsey
#ChildrenInNeed2022
#awesome
Students from Y10-13 performed in Battle of the Bands on 29/11/22. What an amazing night full of entertainment and friendly competition between bands from
@NovaHreodUL
&
@SwindonAcademy1
. First place went to a band from SA - LSVH. Well done to all involved.
#music
#bands
🎤🎹🎸
Last street party of the week with Warwick College. Lots of fun, laughter, ice cream and another crown catwalk. A change of jacket for Mrs D today
#goldnotyellow
🐻🇬🇧🍦👑
#JubileeCelebration
#awesome
Wishing all our Swindon Academy staff, students and families a restful summer holiday. Relax and recharge your batteries 🔋😎. We will see you all in September
#schoolholidays
#summer
#relax
Our amazing staff on ‘Elf Day’ ready to serve Christmas Dinner and enjoy Christmas activities with the students today. Good work SA Team Elf, see you again next year ❤️💚.
#Elf
#TeamWork
#Awesome
A sneak peek into what Y9 will be doing next week during ABC week. Mrs Drinkwater is excited to give this one a go and it’s going to glow up the sports hall - can’t wait 🏸🚥🪩
#activities
#somethingiscoming
Shout out to Mrs Morgan, Mrs Chapman, Mr Adams who ran
@raceforlife
at the weekend for a fantastic cause. Well done and a great effort from all of you
#team
#running
#awesome
After 2 weeks of exams the Year 11’s have all played the new hit game of ‘Boucher Ball’ in tutor this week. Great fun and some very competitive staff. 1st Warwick, 2nd Cambridge, 3rd Bath, 4th Imperial 🐻🏐🥇
#competition
#awesome
#games
What a week! So good to have College Competitions back and see the excitement on the students faces. Looks like the judges had fun as well 🤩
#bestweek
#Halloween
#ourstudentsareawesome
🦄🦁🐉🐻
The jackets came out and it was Mrs D and Mrs Lawrence who took to the microphone 🎤. Quote of the day from a Y7 “you weren’t as bad as you said you would be” 😂
@BBCCiN
#Pudsey
#awesome
So proud of our United College Sixth Form students this year - its our best year yet for A Levels! Well done Matthew, David, Helia, Mara, Lewis, Ali. Good luck for your bright futures! More pics to follow...
@UnitedCollege6F
A few pictures of the amazing Christmas Jumpers created in Champion Time last week. A brilliant way to start our Christmas week, and the students loved seeing the staff walking the catwalk 💃🕺🌟🎄🎅🏻
#ourstaffareawesome
#Catwalk
#Christmas
Remembrance led by our students. Our Head Boy and Girl opened with a reading. This was followed by a beautifully sang song by Joseyana, when students from each Champion Group walked to the front to hand their wreaths they had created to a Cadet.
#Remembance
@PoppyLegion
Young Musician of the Year: we had a great evening celebrating all the musical talent Swindon Academy students have to offer. Well done everyone who took part, and a special thank you to Isabelle Day and Jack McEnroe who came back to the school as our special guest performers.
So here they are, the class of 2028. They started Base Camp with an assembly and we have introduced them to our values and drivers, line-ups and the Swindon Academy way.
A great start to the week, well done year 7 🦄🦁🐲🐻
#Hardwork
#kindness
#responsibility
Great to see the first leaves on our College Kindness Trees. Student Champions nominate each week and our College Champions add them to the tree. Been lovely reading each one, can’t wait for more to be added
#KindnessMatters
#ourstudentsareawesome
🦄🦁🐉🦁
Since half-term it’s been great to see the students engaging in our new lunchtime activities. We have introduced board games, card games and table football. It’s been a pleasure to see the students playing, interacting and socialising in a kind and positive way
#BeKind
#Positive
College Fortunes finally happened this week. All 4 colleges battling it out to be quiz champions. A great event and a brilliant performance by all the teams 🦄🦁🐲🐻
#gameshow
#competition
#familyfun
Congratulations to our class of 2022 who achieved the best progress score in Swindon at 0.69. This means Swindon Academy continues to be the best school in Swindon for student progress since 2016!
#Hardwork
#Kindness
#Responsibility
#awesome
Well Done to some of our Autistic students who were involved in creating a giant artwork for Autism Awareness Week. Shout out to Nazir who did such a great job at finishing it across break/lunchtime, and to Mr Oke for his assembly today
#AutismAwareness
#AutismAcceptance
Last job of the term was to announce the winners of the 2022 College Champions, what a way to end the year. Huge congratulations to Imperial College who pulled off the biggest turnaround in Academy history to be crowned winners 👏🏻🏆🐲💚
#WeAreTheChampions
#Winners
We welcomed Y11 back today and introduced the focus this term - Hard Work. We are looking forward to our Boucherball competitions and setting in motion our premier league leaderboard 🏆🦄🦁🐲🐻
#premierleaguenotsundayleague
#beadoer
#Hardwork
Swindon Academy students Chelsea, Owen, Lauren and Sydney accepted their awards from the Mayor this week, and celebrated their achievements in Creative writing, Poetry and Illustration along with other Swindon students at the Festival.
@SwindonYFL
@PatternChurch
It was Christmas by Candlelight on Tuesday. What a wonderful evening of entertainment that was enjoyed by all. Well done to all the amazing students who performed. 🎄🎅🏻🕯🌟
#ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas
#performance
2023 Prom is underway with dinner and party boxes. Everyone is excited for the dancing to start - will the Class of 2023 take up the staff dance battle challenge? 🪩🕺💃🪩
#prom
#Classof2023
#celebrate
Year 9 finished ABC week with a College Competition in Danish Long Ball, Team Building, and Tug of War.
Thanks to the amazing Year 9 team who made this week possible, and thanks to the students for being awesome 👏🏻🙌🏻🦄🦁🐲🐻
#DREAMTEAM
#bestweek
A great effort from Mr Oke and Mr Jones who volunteered (persuaded) to have wet sponges thrown at them to raise money 🧽 💦 . We also sold just over 1000 red noses across our 3 sites
#RedNoseDay
Year 7 working hard and having fun on their ABC activities: preparing food and a holiday at home experience for the local community as well as creating new habitats for our local wildlife to thrive.
#COMMUNITY
#fun
#workhard
Yesterday we enjoyed our first College Christmas dinner for a while with staff serving the students dinner. It was great to see our college families sat together enjoying a great lunch and spending time together 🎅🎄⛄️👏
#ChristmasDinner
#together
#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
A guard on honour for Year 11 as they left today. We wish them all the best in their next chapter 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Good luck
#Classof2021
and keep in touch 🦄🦁🐲🐻
#AimForTheTop
And they danced the night away. Thank you Class of 2023 for a great night, you definitely loved the dance floor. Good luck for your the next chapter of your journey 💃🕺🪩🎶
#prom
#Classof2023
#celebration
Every term a group of 6th Form Students focus on charity work. This term Amy and her team raised over £200 for breast cancer UK. We also had more lovely food from team Rawat who raised £40 for Diabetes awareness. Well Done
@UnitedCollege6F
Male students were accompanied by some of the teaching staff on a 2km walk where they discussed the barriers some men have in being open about mental health. This event gave students the chance to reflect on their own mental health as well as listen to others.
#Movember
The Prom is ready for the Class od 2023. What a way to end their SA journey. We can’t wait to see you all and celebrate in true SA style 🎉 🎶🪩💃🕺
#prom
#Classof2023
#celebration
It was the Christmas Catwalk today. The Student Champions did a great job modelling the jumpers created by the students. Results will be announced in a special Roll Call on Friday 🎄☃️🎅🏻🌟
#ChristmasJumperDay
#ItsBeginningToLookALotLikeChristmas
Big shout out to our amazing catering team who today served 800 Christmas Dinners over 4 sittings. Each College came down and sat together to eat, chat, sing and enjoy lunch together.
#christmasdinner
🍽🦄🦁🐲🐻
#family
ABC Week Day 2 for Year 9. Today’s activities included, Glow Dodgeball 🏀 Glow Just Dance 🪩 Glow Badminton 🏸 First Aid ⛑️ Foot Golf ⛳️ and Handball 🏐 Another great day with some classic tunes played by DJ Boucher 🎶 🙌🏻
#trysomethingnew
#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
It’s time for our first College Competition of the year. Introducing - Mr ‘The Doctor’ Jones, Mr ‘180’ Turner, Miss ‘not Chapstick’ Capstick, Mr ‘The Rock’ Stone. Which team will be our darts champions? 🎯🦄🦁🐲🐻🏅
#letplaydarts
#CompetitionTime
Last week the Humanities department took 130 Year 10 students to Bristol. They looked at urban change and how it affects life in the city, enjoyed a boat ride along the harbour and a walk through the centre. 🌎🏢⛴🧭
#roadtrip
#explore
#study
Today we paused to honour those who gave their lives for this country. Assembly led by S. Halls with readings from our head boy and girl.
#RemembranceDay2021
#LestWeForget
A group of year 7 have headed down to
@JamiesFarm
. They will be spending the week on the farm, taking time out from the digital world and exploring the countryside.
#EducationWithCharacter
A big thank you to volunteers from Zurich who raised money for laptops! Alton Close and Beech Avenue Primary Schools can now provide new devices to families in need, so they can participate fully in home schooling:
@ZCTrust
@SA_ACPrimary
@SA_BAPrimary
The College Championship Totals have been revealed in assemblies this week. It’s very very close and we have a new leader. Bath 218, Warwick 216, Imperial 204, Cambridge 202. All to play for this term 🏆 🦄🦁🐲🐻
#Competition
#WorkHard
#Teamwork
College Championship points totals have been updated ready for the first event since lockdown. Excited to have a live competition and the points couldn’t be closer 🦄🦁🐲🐻
#Competition
#Champion
#BeKind
Another day and another street party. Today is was Imperial College turn, and what an amazing job the Champions did on the catwalk. Can you spot the theme with the crowns? 👑🇬🇧🍦🐲
#QueensJubilee
#together
#fun
The prefects have been shopping with Mrs Wright and Mrs Boucher and re-stocked the shop. It’s full of items ready for the students to start buying with their e-praise points. Great job guys, looks brilliant 🙌🏻🛍️💯
@epraiseUK
#RewardPoints