Acle Academy

Year 10 Summer Revision Project To help Year 10 pupils get ready for the demands of Year 11, we've launched a Summer Revision Project. Every student will receive resources in assembly this week, including: Revision support resources such as highlighters, pens, pencils. A revision guide with tips and "how to" advice Subject specific revision overviews Access to our updated Revision Resource Zone on the Acle Academy website Copies of lessons and extra materials in each subject's Google Classroom Our expectation: A minimum of 8 hours of revision over the summer (that's around 2 hours a week or 15 mins a day). This could include focused revision skills or practice exam questions. Rewards & Support: Students will have a revision loyalty card to log their hours, earning stamps for verified work and small rewards from September. We'll also continue with form-time revision sessions and assemblies next term. Balance is key: We want pupils to rest and recharge too – it's not about working all summer, but about starting to build good habits for success in Year 11. Thank you for your support in helping our Year 10s make the most of this opportunity! #acleacademy

Year 7 Residential - Kingswood A wonderful time is being had at Kingswood. We're looking forward to welcoming back some very happy and very tired year 7s this afternoon. #acleacademy

Snowboarding - Curriculum Enhancement Week Thank you to Norfolk Snowsports Club and Snowfit Revolutionz for putting on an awesome three day snowboarding course, including a trip to Snowfit Revolutionz to look at some snow related equipment! It was fantastic to see our students learning a completely new skill. Well done to everyone! Very proud of you all! #acleacademy #norfolksnowsportsclub #snowfit_revolutionz

Huge Congratulations to our New Head Students & Senior Prefect Team We are absolutely delighted to announce our new Head Students and Deputy Head Students for the upcoming year – a truly outstanding group of young leaders ready to make a difference from September! After over 20 incredible applications and a series of inspiring presentations, Mr Sayce, Mrs Jacotine and Miss Pring were blown away by the talent, passion and vision shown by every candidate. The standard was so high that reaching a final decision was incredibly difficult – but we are thrilled with the team we've put together. Head Students – Luna Pantelli and Isla Smithson (both also Head of Charity) Deputy Head Students – Toby Bicker (Head of Community), Catherine Scott (Head of Study Support), Daisy (Head of DICE), Kady Denton (Head of Wellbeing) and Alfie Cobb (Head of Enrichment) We are also proud to announce our Deputy Service Area Leaders: Jack Meldrum (Community), Willow Townshend (Study Support), Melia Yassin (DICE), Ferne Townshend (Wellbeing), Joe Watts (Enrichment) and Millie Smith (Charity). Well done to every student who applied – your courage and dedication are inspiring. And to our new senior prefect team, we are so proud of you and excited to see the impact you'll make as the future leaders of our school. Here's to an amazing year ahead! #acleacademy #leaders

Prom 2025 We were thrilled to have Dunston Hall as the stunning venue for our long-awaited Prom this year. The Prom Committee showed incredible dedication and creativity throughout the year, working around their mock exams to carefully plan the theme, style, and evening events for the marquee. Although the crowning of the Prom King and Queen was delayed, the winners will be announced at next academic year's reunion, when the year group will be invited back for a special evening. A huge thank you goes to the Prom Committee for organising the music playlist in advance, as well as leading the fundraising efforts. Their enthusiasm and teamwork shone through in every bake sale and activity. Each bake sale raised over £100, and the PTA car wash – supported by many Year 11 students – brought in an amazing £750! All proceeds went directly towards making Prom a night to remember. Thank you also to everyone who purchased a ticket and joined us in celebrating this special milestone. It was a spectacular event, with incredible outfits, unforgettable arrivals, and a joyful atmosphere throughout the evening. A special thank you to Fun Fotos for capturing the memories and providing all the fun props – students should now have received their photos as keepsakes. We wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable summer, and the very best of luck in your next chapter! #acleacademy #classof2025

Royal Shakespeare Company's Playmaking Festival During Curriculum Enhancement Week, selected students took part in this year's 2025 Royal Shakespeare Company Playmaking Festival, as part of our role as an associate school with them. Students worked alongside a visiting director from the RSC, as well as staff from Norwich Theatre to put on designated scenes from Shakespeare's famous comedy Midsummer Night's Dream. Other associate schools from the cluster were assigned different scenes and we came together across Monday and Tuesday to put it all together on the Norwich Playhouse stage. Acle's students were tasked with putting on the mechanicals scene and rose to the task of staging this brilliantly! The performance was on the Tuesday evening and there was a sell-out crowd! Parents and family members were given free tickets to see the show, and they all left extremely proud of their children, as were we as staff! It was a genuine joy to see our talented young actors perform their scenes that they have been working on for weeks and I know they felt extremely proud of themselves too! #acleacademy #thersc #norwichtheatre

M+A Partners is currently recruiting for a school leaver to join their Attleborough office in September 2025 as part of their next trainee cohort. This is an ideal opportunity for motivated and ambitious students who are interested in gaining hands-on experience while studying towards a professional qualification such as AAT, ACCA, or ACA. What's involved? Assisting in the preparation of accounts and tax returns Supporting with VAT returns and other compliance tasks Working with HMRC and clients directly Gaining experience across a wide variety of businesses and services Why M+A Partners? Competitive salary and benefits package Full study support Excellent long-term career progression Supportive and collaborative team environment More information is available here on their website: https://www.mapartners.co.uk/careers/trainee-attleborough/ If you would like to find out more about the role or what it's like to train with M+A Partners, please reach out to recruitment@mapartners.co.uk. Best wishes, Ellie

Land and Sea It was a busy few days for the students on this Curriculum Enhancement Week pathway, who experienced all the local area has to offer in terms of nature. On Monday, we took the train to Great Yarmouth where we firstly walked to the Waterways for some creative writing/art inspiration. Students took time to admire the Venetian bridges, boats and a lovely pond complete with Monet-style lilies and fish and made sketches/notes to take back to school. We then walked along the beach, stopping at the pier for photos and ice creams/doughnuts in the sunshine before continuing. Lunch was eaten on the beach where we were ambushed by the local seagulls after some food! Coupled with this, we found ourselves covered in ladybirds, which were in abundance on the seafront. The students loved their impromptu game of football and engaged in some traditional seaside activities, which included digging and making sandcastles! After taking the train back to school, the students made sketches of their favourite scenes ready for use on Wednesday. On day two, we explored the woodland areas of Acle, starting with a walk through the fields to Upton, where we found a secret forest and collected leaves/rubbings for our artwork in school. We all enjoyed spotting and trying to identify the different crops in the fields - barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beet to name but a few. After break we walked around the back of the school through the forest area to stop at the sundial where a beautiful back view of the school can be seen. Students made sketches here and took some wonderful photos before heading back for lunch. In the afternoon, we walked to the river at Acle Bridge where we stopped for a well-deserved drink/snack at a delightful converted horsebox café and enjoyed feeding the ducks which had come to see us. It was a busy, tiring couple of days, but the students thoroughly enjoyed being at one with nature and took some fantastic photos which will serve as reminders of their visits. On day three, we started with a nature-themed team quiz, then students were given the choice to either create some Aboriginal-style art, or do some creative writing. Students were really engaged with exploring different symbols and layering of colour to create pictures of landscapes, creatures or objects that they had encountered around Great Yarmouth and Acle. Using their photographs to inspire them, they created some amazing artwork! Other students spent time doing "frenzied writing" about a prompt randomly selected from a spinning wheel of options. We then looked at creating kennings (two-word phrases used to replace a noun, such as "sky-reflector" instead of "sea"), then created a story that included a range of these. Afterwards, we listened to some rainforest sounds and created a short description inspired by what it made us imagine. Finally, we had some time to create a short story based on photographs taken from the first two days. The ideas and writing created during this time were so impressive! Later in the day, students had the choice of creating a newspaper article or a travel brochure page based on their travels earlier in the week. We also ran a scavenger hunt after lunch, with students split into teams to see which side could find all the objects from their cards first. Finally, we rounded the day off by creating some nature-themed board games and then had a game of football on the field to enjoy the sunshine. It was a busy day, but one filled with creativity and enjoyment of the great outdoors. #acleacademy

Aspens Services Ltd. will be our new catering service provider from September 2025.please follow the link below to access the 'Streateries' parent information, allergy policy and latest menu information. https://www.wensumtrust.org.uk/acleacademy/parents-and-carers/coming-soon-aspens-catering Cashless Catering Payments on Scopay Please do not make any catering payment top ups to Scopay from 25th July to 14th August. If your child has a debit balance on their Cashless Catering Scopay account please bring the account back in credit or to a zero balance by the end of term, 22nd July. The Wensum Trust will need to reconcile the account and require this time period to transfer any payments. Here are the new Autumn menus from Aspens.