Faculty Updates

Every time you turn on a light switch, do any form of exercise or turn on a tap, you are relying on processes and ideas that are part of the science curriculum at the National Academy. Our aim throughout the time that students are studying with us is to give them opportunities to understand and expl...

How do I use leadership skills in PACE lessons? Here are 6 important leadership skills students learn from participating in Physical education and performing arts (Drama and Music) that can be applied to many roles and careers – even outside of performing arts and sport. 1. Persistence...

The maths department welcomes our new teachers for this academic year; Miss Copeland (maths) and Mr Bolster (maths and computing). We have started our year off in computing by using BBC microbits with year 9, which are small micro computers, to teach the principles of coding.  Our year 9 stu...

This year in MFL we are delivering our newly revised Key Stage 3 Curriculum. We have worked to develop a curriculum that is both engaging and allows knowledge and skills acquired to be continually interleaved and re- visited throughout the three years of language learning. This prepares students ful...

How do you keep five years’ worth of information in your head? And how do you make sure that all of that information will be there when the ‘exam panic’ hits in the hall?   These are questions that we have been thinking hard about in the science faculty recently. The nat...

The start of any school year is always a busy time and this year has proved no different in the Mathematics and Computing Faculty.      During the last 8 months colleagues in the faculty have been working on co-ordinating a common approach for many of the problems that stud...