ncw2023

National Careers Week 6-10th March

We took part in the National Careers Week recently in the academy, thinking about how we raise our aspirations and have more confidence in ourselves and our skills and how being better at doing this will lead to better opportunities in our future careers. Students in years 7-10 took part in assemblies, form time activities and a PSHE with this focus throughout the week. Staff also got involved by filling in posters to put on classroom and office doors telling students what other jobs they had done before working in our school and the skills they learned whilst doing them. Some of these included being a pizza maker, cabin crew and even a Christmas elf….

DSC03196-copy

World Book Day

WORLD BOOK DAY! Wow!!!!!

What an amazing day Bloxwich Academy have had. Thank you to all our parents and carers for buying costumes of your child’s favourite characters or sending your child/ren into school in their pyjamas. The children all looked amazing.

I am over the moon at our many potato characters which have been brought into school. We had a Mr Bump, a school scene, a family of potatoes’, Sonic, a Super Mario character and many, many more- they were amazing! KS2 have brought in their own designs of a new book cover and blurb, and I was delighted to see so many entries which will be displayed in the Accelerated Reading area for all our children to see and read- well done.

Throughout the day, all our children had the chance to take part in the World Book Day Dance Workshops- Early Years performed through dance ‘The Three Little Pigs’, KS1 performed through dance ‘Handa’s Surprise’ and KS2 performed through dance ‘Matilda’. The children have been telling me that they have really enjoyed taking part and a Year 3 child said’ I enjoyed being moody like Matilda!’ This was an amazing opportunity for the children to express themselves and it certainly helped promote the love of reading.

Throughout the day, there have been many World Book Day activities taking place- from children making their own stories using ICT, children taking part in book quizzes and competing against each other’s knowledge, children creating their own book covers and blurb and many, many more. It has been a pleasure to walk around school and see our children engaged, happy and loving all the activities that they had the opportunity to complete today.

Please find attached many photos from our amazing day. I’m sure you will agree they are fantastic, and I can’t wait to celebrate World Book Day again next year!

Picture-3

World Book Day

World Book Day was truly a magical day at Bloxwich Academy! Members of staff enjoyed dressing up as their favourite fictional characters, including Mr Seager as Harry Potter! The student well and truly enjoyed seeing all these fictional characters brought to life by their teachers and the winner of the best dressed was Miss Woolery as Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast!

During World Book Day, the students contributed to a variety of form time activities such as KS3 creating their own colourful and inspirational quoted bookmarks (a shout out to Lacey- 7X1) for winning this competition, with KS4 also creating their own Book Review on a literature text they have studied or a book they reading for pleasure. Bloxwich Academy also ran a ‘Whole School Scavenger Book Hunt Challenge’ in our fantastic, well-resourced, new Library, this allowed KS3/KS4 students during break and lunch to work through prompts that matched the book in the library. The winner for the ‘Scavenger Book Hunt’ challenge was Umna Kazem (8T1) who won a Huge Easter Egg! Additionally, within English, students had a drop-down lesson, where they focused on World Book Day activities, their class teachers selected a vast range and amusing fictional extracts that would suit the class, students enjoyed a glimpse of unseen fictional texts that they were able to base strong predictions on. The students also participated in the game ‘Never have I ever’ which was related to texts they have read for pleasure, this allowed students to venture their next read. All form tutors across school also participated in ‘drop everything and read’, this allowed tutors to bring in and read a section of their favourite novel and discuss with students why they would recommend the text; this was a wonderful experience for students to listen to and aspire to read the same text. Beauty and the Beast Theme!

Recent Primary News

Recent Secondary News

Contact Info

Secondary School
Leamore Lane
Bloxwich, Walsall
West Midlands
WS2 7NR

T: 01922 710 257
postbox@bloxwichacademy.co.uk

Secondary SENDCo – Mrs Bensley

Monday - Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm

Copyright 2024 © All Rights Reserved

CEOP-1
Loading