We are delighted to announce that Walbottle Academy has been graded GOOD in all areas by Ofsted 💜💜💜
To read more about our monumental transformation see below ⬇️
Please see an important text message that has been sent to our families:
With immediate effect, we are now strongly recommending that students wear their face mask at all times. INCLUDING in the classroom.
Thank you for all your continued patience and support
#TeamWalbottle
A sad day today as we waved goodbye for now to our year 11’s. There were lots of tears from students and staff! As they were reminded today, this is not the end, this is just the beginning of the rest of your lives. You will always be a part of
#TeamWalbottle
We are super PROUD of HC in Y8 for creating this amazing meal to make his Mam smile before a 12h shift in Radiology! Look at those Yorkies!
#Proudthursday
#Teamwalbottle
#NHSheroes
Our amazing COVID testing staff have been fantastic this week and we wanted to say a big
#DoneWell
‘Heroes don’t wear capes. They wear aprons, visors and masks’ - Mr Wood
#TeamWalbottle
🔹Thanks to our amazing students who have accessed their home learning today
🔹Thanks to our amazing staff who have been supporting on the front line in school today so critical workers can go to work
🔹Thanks to our amazing parents/carers for the continued support
#TeamWalbottle
Our amazing maths faculty have kick started our Passport to 2021 Challenge by completing 2021 ball exercises after school tonight
#DoneWell
#AreYouReady
#WeAreTheTrust
What an amazing open evening!
We had so many visitors we stayed open even later than advertised.
It was fantastic to be able to open our doors to our community and share some of the fabulous things happening in our academy
#TeamWalbottle
Our community is amazing we are so
#PROUD
All of our teachers are live streaming their full timetable remotely to our children working from home.
For any IT support, including getting a device please contact the academy
#TeamWalbottle
@GavinWilliamson
After your advice I feel it necessary to let
@Ofstednews
know how amazing
@NETWalbottle
have reacted since March and continue to do through this crisis, with excellent online live lessons for students including additional catch up provision
#teaching
#Covid19UK
An amazing GCSE results day! We are super proud of you all!
Our students, families and staff have been fantastic over the last year despite the challenges we have faced over the pandemic.
The engagement in our remote learning offer this morning has been fantastic, we are so
#PROUD
of our amazing students and our staff who are live streaming their full timetable to our students working from home
#DoneWell
We are super PROUD of JH (year 7) this week. He made and delivered an afternoon tea which included fruit scones, banana bread and Easter cupcakes to all of our street on Easter Sunday, many in self isolation. What a wonderful
#actofkindness
Could he be
#Proudonlinechamp
?
Please see the update on our website regarding COVID-19.
Thank you to our amazing staff who volunteered to make 1621 home learning packs today
#TeamWalbottle
Huge applause moment to our amazing children, our staff & nearly 400 visitors who braved the weather to come to our open evening & visit our academy 👏👏👏
Fantastic to share our vision & our journey with our community
#OutcomesFocused
#ChildCentred
What a wonderful act of kindness from Mrs Thorogood who made these little gifts to "spread some sunshine during the storm". She left them on the doorsteps of vulnerable neighbours and family members who live nearby
#Proud
#actsofkindness
Walbottle are incredibly proud of CJ, Year 7, who is running 22 laps of the garden every day at 0.88miles to raise money for the Chloe and Liam Together Forever Trust with a goal of £220. 22 laps is for the 22 people killed in the Manchester attack on 22 May in 2017.
#Proud
Two of our superstar golfers at Close House with legendary
@WestwoodLee
as part of enrichment!
We have over 100 clubs each week, they are free and there are extra buses to get home safe!
#Enrichment
#Onboard
Today we said goodbye to our amazing Y11s!
We hope you enjoyed being applauded out of school by our Y7 & Y8 children.
Your resilience, maturity and conduct has been impeccable! We are super
#Proud
💜
After discussions with the bus companies and taking into consideration the weather conditions we have decided to close the school tomorrow (01.03.18). Year 11s will be able to access work and revision materials on the school website from 9am
Thank you to
#OurAmazingStudents
who have been so adaptable with their learning 👏
Thank you to our families who have been patient & supportive. Especially those who’ve been in touch to simply say thanks 👏
Thank you to our staff who are enhancing life chances
#TeamWalbottle
One of many amazing success stories from
@WBASixthForm
"a positive message to our community of what children at Walbottle Academy can do and we hope this inspires the future generations."
#PROUD
#OurAmazingStudents
Walbottle Academy has appeared in an article by a national newspaper, explaining what we have done to reopen for face-to-face teaching.
"Real heroes don't wear capes - they wear testing aprons and visors."
Read more below 👇
We’re very excited to begin dropping off our Welcome to Walbottle Goody Bags for our Year 6 students! Take a look at our enrichment offer for September, as well as our pledges and Year 7 experiences. We can’t wait to meet you, not long now! 😆
We have achieved the best GCSE results the school have ever had.
More than double the number of children have left Walbottle with a strong pass in English and Maths and every child has achieved at least 1 grade higher across all 8 subjects compared to 2019!
What a fantastic Year 7
#Proud
celebration today with masses of our amazing Year 7 learners excited to show off their awesome work! There are big smiles behind those masks!
#teamwalbottle
#Year7
Our first entry for
#ProudThursdayOnline
. Mrs Walker and her granddaughter have created a fabulous and tasty entry to help make others smile. Remember to email in your entries to proudthursday
@walbottlecampus
.net! Prizes are available!
#TeamWalbottle
It was brilliant to say a big thank you to our amazing staff after L&P tonight & invite them down for a hot chocolate & festive ginger bread to recognise their hard work & resilience.
We can’t wait for our amazing pupils to visit our Winter Fair this week ❄️🎄❄️
#TeamWalbottle
We have our academy winners from the
@NETscience3
#BSW2021
competition! 🌊🍃
Congratulations to Amy (Y7) and Jack (Y8)! 👏
The winners receive a certificate, an Easter egg and a solar-powered robot kit! 📜🐣🤖
@walbottlecampus
Amie’s baking - made to order for friends, salted caramel sponge cake, Nutella flapjack. Terrys chocolate orange cheesecake. (She’ll not be impressed I’ve put this on here!) 👏 🧁
A huge well done to HO in Y9 who has been putting the skills he has learnt in Construction to use to build a summer house in his garden! Awesome work Harvey!
#ProudThursdayOnline
#TeamWalbottle
Ms K Lord, Head Teacher, said: "I am delighted that our GCSE results prove to be stronger than ever, and demonstrate a significant improvement in the core areas of English, Maths and Science. Our students should feel very proud of what they have achieved this summer."
It has been amazing to welcome all year groups to Walbottle Academy this week. You have been fantastic! Thank you to all the parents & carers for your patience & support. We can’t wait to do it all again on Monday
#TeamWalbottle
Walbottle students are
#Proud
to have prepared the earth and planted courgettes, beetroot, carrots and pumpkins in our school veg patch. Keep up the great work guys!
#Proudthursdayonline
#Teamwalbottle
All set up for our Year 11 'Pizza with the Principal' celebration tomorrow!! Did you rack up the points on Hegarty and Seneca to get your invite???
#PROUD
@hegartymaths
@SenecaLearn
AC in Y10, thank you for your random act of kindness! Amelia made Easter baskets for her neighbours who are key workers at the RVI and in the army - currently away from home. She made this all from scratch and delivered to them.
#Proud
#Teamwalbottle
#RandomActsOfKindness
Well done to all our year 13 students who have worked hard over the last two years to get the grades they deserve! We are so
#PROUD
of you!
#TeamWalbottle
#outcomesfocused
In line with Government guidance School is CLOSED.
You should only send your child to school if you have to, because your work is critical to COVID-19 response.
IF YOU ARE ABLE TO KEEP YOUR CHILD AT HOME, YOU SHOULD.
Please check our website for updates
Well done to our Netball team. Results from their recent games:
Walbottle v Sacred Heart 5-1
Walbottle V Jesmond Park 3-1
Walbottle v Walker 5-0
We're very proud of the team. 👏
#Proud
#TeamWalbottle
Look at this gorgeous milky bar cheesecake made by GC in Y8. She not only made and decorated it independently but also found the recipe and sourced most of the ingredients.
#ProudThursdayOnline
#TeamWalbottle
We are so
#PROUD
of all of the students that have been selected to take part in E1 celebrations today! They are being recognised for their outstanding attitude to learning over the last half term
#TeamWalbottle
A perfect summary of what has been a fantastic day for our amazing children!
We want to say a final thank you to all of our children and our families for all of their support 💜
👏Massive congratulations to all young people receiving their GCSE results today!
📚We visited Walbottle Academy to hear from hard-working students, parent, carers and teachers about what it means to achieve these results.
Best of luck for the future!
#GCSEResultsDay
We are so
#PROUD
of Charlie (Y7) and his brother for their incredible fundraising for two victims of the Manchester Arena attacks. They are running 49 miles around their garden! Look out for them on the Look North evening news tonight. Here they are...
Congratulations to Miss Perry, Sixth Form Year Leader who received a Carer Friendly Communities Award
@Discovery_Mus
today. The award recognises people who go the extra mile to support carers. Miss Perry was nominated by Lauren, Y13.
#sixthform
#carerfriendly
We have celebrated amazing success with our 6th Form students today. Huge congratulations to our Year 13 students. Good luck to all of you in your university, employment and training opportunities.
A huge applause moment to our amazing Y13 students who received their A level results today 👏👏👏
It was fantastic to celebrate with you and see all of your hard work pay off
#PROUD
Mrs Heslop has been working hard doing various activities for her
#PassportTo2021
challenge and somehow manages to still look as fresh as a daisy!
Keep going everybody, keep pushing for those targets and certificates 💪🏃
#TeamWalbottle
We are all incredibly
#PROUD
of all of our entries this week. Well done to all for taking part! We cant wait to see next weeks entries. Here are the winners below- We will be in touch with prizes
#Proudthursday
#TeamWalbottle
Today, we held a Service of Remembrance and observed the two-minute silence to remember and honour the fallen. Our cadets marched through school and laid a poppy wreath. Read more about the service here 🌹 Lest we forget.
Three of our year 7 students came up with the idea to collect food parcels to donate to our local foodbank for Christmas. What a fantastic idea and look at the sleighful of parcels they've collected. Well done, we are super
#proud
of you. 🎁 👏
Another staff entry! Mrs Miller is very proud of her first ever chocolate cake made from scratch for her husband's 50th birthday. He even said it was better than Colin the Caterpillar!
#Proudthursdayonline
#Teamwalbottle
Congratulations to Morgan, Y10, who won the most votes of any candidate in Newcastle in the youth council elections. Morgan will take up a seat
@UKYP
&
@NclYouthcouncil
, helping to make a difference to the lives of young people across the UK. Read more:
One of our fire cadets, Lennon Bates, aged 17, has become a ‘local hero’ when he recently came to the aid of an injured pedestrian in the Throckley area 👏
Lennon also works as an apprentice for the Highways team at
@NewcastleCC
Find out more by reading
Another 2021 exercises today as part our
#PassportTo2021
challenge for Mr Wood, Mr Gott & Miss Urwin. They are doing 2021 exercises EVERYDAY for 20 days. That’s 4042 exercises so far this week. See you in enrichment tomorrow Y7 for our next 2021 exercises!
Y7, Y11 & 6th form parents/carers:
All staff at Walbottle Academy are looking forward to seeing our Y7, Y11 & 6th form students tomorrow.
Don’t worry if you’re feeling a bit nervous we are here to look after you.
See you at 8.20am.
Robbie is heading to
@NorthumbriaUni
to study Finance & Investment Management after securing fantastic results at A Level: Business (A), Finance (A) and Geography (B). Congratulations Robbie!
#WalbottleGrad
#SixthFormSuperstar
EF in Year 8 has been supporting their local community to meet our Pledge at Home no 9: Carry out a random act of kindness. Amazing! 🌈 keep sending your entries to pledgesathome
@walbottlecampus
.net
Rebekah is heading to De Montfort University to study Aeronautical Engineering to follow her ambitions of a career in Formula One. Well done Rebekah and the very best of luck.
#WalbottleGrad
#SixthFormSuperstar
Last week we celebrated our fabulous Sixth Form students in our Commendations evening. This year, Jane, Year 12, won the Victrix Ludorum award for outstanding sporting achievement in school and her role on the
@NUFCWomen
's team
#welldone
#proudteachers
#inspiredtoachieve
A huge applause moment 👏 to Sophie in Y7 who appeared in Dick Whittington at the People’s Theatre. We have so many fabulous & talented students at
#TeamWalbottle
we are very
#PROUD
ED in Year 6 is very busy preparing for her transition to secondary school! ED has been planning her new route to Walbottle and creating a transition poster! What are you up to?
#year6transition
#secondaryschoolready
#pledgesathome
Taking the
#PassportTo2021
challenge to the next level today! Our Principal & his team are completing 2021 exercises EVERYDAY for 20 days.
Today involved: squats, sit-ups, lunges, pushups, burpees & bear crawls 💪
Lots of lovely messages to be seen at our Year 11 shirt signing this afternoon as our final year students depart on study leave for the remainder of the GCSE exam season
#year11
#inspiredtoachieve
Well done Year 12 for a fantastic transition to Sixth Form! We can’t wait to see you all in September. We hope you enjoyed your ice cream and there was even some left for for Mr Potts!👏🏻🍦
A decision will be made around 7pm this evening as to whether the school will be open tomorrow. This will be after discussions with the bus companies coordinating our student transport. The safety of our students is paramount and we thank you for your support in this matter.
With nearly 250 students attending enrichment this week WBA students are flying! 180 Year 11 students attending enrichment in core subjects and the usual fun alternatives like D&D!
#TeamWalbottle
To our future Y7’s, we know you can’t come and visit us at the moment so we have created a virtual tour of our amazing school so you can have a look around
#TeamWalbottle
We're excited to launch PROUD today! Students can celebrate work that they are particularly proud of by showing it to staff and students in our celebratory PROUD session. We can't wait to see what our students bring!
#PROUD
What a fantastic morning of rugby we've had today! Over two hundred children from local primary schools have taken part in our festival of rugby, delivered in partnership with Newcastle Thunder. It was such a brilliant atmosphere.
#Inspiredtoachieve
What a way to end this half term! We have had a record number of students achieving 100% attendance - in fact the number has doubled since last half term! Our Turn Up To Be A Winner draw happens tomorrow - I wonder who will be our lucky winners?
#Proud
#TeamWalbottle
#BRAG
Our 6th formers were amazing reading for leisure and pleasure with our KS3 children today in DEAR!
Huge applause moment to our book vending machine winners
#NETreadingstrategy
Delighted to have won Championship player of the month for January! Couldn’t have done this without my teammates! Thankyou for all the messages! 🙌🏻🔵⚪️
@Rovers