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February 2019

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  • De-merger – Update following consultation

    Published 25/02/19

    Formal consultation on the proposal to split the Nottingham Academy into 2 separate academies ran for 6 weeks between 9 November and the 21 December 2018.

    The extent of community and parental response to the consultation was relatively modest in number.  However, there was strong overall support for the proposal to split the Nottingham Academy and establish 2 separate academies. There were 2 significant issues that were consistently raised during the consultation:

    1. a lack of support for the proposed name at both academies
    2. concern about the costs of rebranding, particularly the cost of a new uniform

    The consultation indicated a significant majority who were in favour of keeping the Nottingham Academy name for Greenwood Campus and a significant majority who were in favour of a completely new name for the new academy at Ransom Road.  However, there was not support for the proposed name; the Mapperley Park Academy.   

    Based on the feedback received from consultation, on 25 January Greenwood Academies Trust’s Board agreed to submit an amended proposal to the Regional Schools Commissioner to split the Nottingham Academy into 2 separate academies where: 

    1. Greenwood Campus - Greenwood Road and Sneinton Boulevard site would continue to be called the Nottingham Academy,
    2. further consultation with the community would be carried out about the name of the Ransom Road Campus. 
    3. the cost of any replacement uniform at the Ransom Road site academy would be funded by the academy.

     

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  • South Korea exchange 2019

    Published 13/02/19

    Nottingham Academy welcomed a group of students from Ulsan Foreign Language High School in South Korea.

    Our visitors spent three days at Ransom Road campus where they teamed up with our Pupil Parliament to take part in a programme of activities including drama, sport, music and cooking.

    The visit began on Friday 8th February 2019 when our Pupil Parliament introduced themselves and Nottingham Academy.

    They spoke highly of the academy and celebrated the diversity of it, by talking about the variety of nationalities of our pupils.

    Visitors then took part in a quiz about how well they know Britain's history, as well as their knowledge on Nottingham. They scored very highly in all the quizzes.

    Activities based around the British culture and Nottingham's Robin Hood were then held.

    Ms Wilkins, who is a SEN Learning Mentor at Nottingham Academy, handed out traditional British sweets to her group, who watched the Mr Bean film & listened to English music, such as Stormzy.

    To finish the day, some of our pupils performed dance and drama routines.

    On Monday 11th February, our visitors and Pupil Parliament took part in team building and sport activities where they had to communicate to each other non-verbally.

    They also hosted a tea party where they served scones they had made during a cookery session and. They served this with jam, cream and tea.

    In the afternoon our visitors gave a presentation on the history of South Korea and helped our pupils make name tags in Korean letters.

    On the final day our visitors took part in an art activity and a music workshop where they played a range of instruments.

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