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We look forward to welcoming year 11 students from across the Newark area and beyond for our Sixth Form Open Evening. Thursday 16th November, 5pm arrival with the opening talk at 5.30pm! Come and check out our offer and find out how to apply!
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We pride ourselves on putting our students first. Always! That’s why, despite the uncertainty surrounding GCSE results day this week, we will be awarding places in our popular NA6 provision based on Centre Assessed Grades and not an ‘algorithm’
#weknowourstudents
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So proud to announce that our Academy has been judged to be 'a GOOD' school with OUTSTANDING Leadership and Management. Delighted for everyone who has supported us along the way and look forward to the next phase of our journey
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The moment when you realise you’ve achieved a grade 9 in every single subject. Well done Ella, everyone is so proud of what you and everyone else has achieved!
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We are so excited to welcome all of our amazing students back today, we have missed you so much! Hope you all have a fantastic day 😊 we won’t let the weather rain on our parade!
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Thank you to all of our amazing Year 11 students for your hard work and dedication. We hope you all enjoyed your afternoon reminiscing on some great times at NA
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Really proud of our wonderful staff who have been in today planning for students return, be it online or face to face. Full details will be sent to parents shortly. Government updates due later this evening and we will of course keep you updated with any changes to our plans.
1 day to go: What an awesome team! Thank you so much to our testing ‘squad’ who have done such an amazing job getting all students through phase 1 of testing. Can’t wait to see you all on Thursday!
All set up and ready to go for the return of our amazing Celebration Evening! Can’t wait to see our wonderful students and parents shortly!
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So proud of our students and how they have responded to this very challenging
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situation. Getting the grades they have worked so hard for and moving on to the next phase of their education. Well done everyone! 😊
So incredibly proud of our X13 and Y11 students today. Such a sad end to their NA journey but the uniqueness of today only exacerbated how inspirational they really are. We‘ll miss each and every one of you and it’s been our absolute privilege to call you NA students
#simplyproud
Amazing Celebration evening tonight. Always so wonderful to share in the success of our truly inspirational young people along with their parents and carers. We’re so proud of you all and it’s a joy to be able to celebrate your amazing achievements.
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We have an absolute treat for our students& can’t wait to welcome our special guest. After a number of challenging months of lockdown, school closure & missed rights of passage, what better way to start the term with a bit of motivational speaking. All will be revealed tomorrow!
Today, Newark Academy had its ‘heatbeat’ restored. What a fantastic day! So proud of our students who returned with such positive engagement, and respect for one another and the safety measures in place - you were exceptional 👌🏻
#Excellence
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We continue to be overwhelmed by the caring,considerate and compassionate response from our fabulous parents and carers to our present challenge. We are so fortunate to work with such an amazing community and we thank you all for your ongoing understanding, kindness and support.
It’s always so nice to hear our students following their dreams and doing well. Congrats Harry Chapman on securing a new Club. Wishing you the best of luck! Will see you tomorrow with the rest of year11 for
#gcseresults2020
Yesterday was all about our students and their richly deserved success. Today however is about our staff. The integrity and professionalism they have shown throughout this year has been exceptional. Thank you! For everything you do! You are incredible! All of you!
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A challenging day but together, staff, students and families have shown just how GREAT our community is. Staff have been busy uploading work from home & responding to email whilst staff in school have been keeping everyone safe. Families have been so supportive too. What a team!
Our wonderful year 11 students are collecting their GCSE grades this morning. So proud of them for the resilience and positivity they have demonstrated to get through such a challenging period. You’ve fully deserved your grades - be proud of them 😊
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At the end of a very long half term, with many unprecedented challenges, I am so proud to say how amazingly well our students and staff have responded. Really looking forward to next half term and continuing our journey Have a safe and restful half term break all.
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Today at the academy we welcomed Lord Michael Cashman, a human with an amazing story of acceptance, love and empathy and a pioneer for LGBTQIA rights - an unforgettable and eye opening session for us all. Thank you
@mcashmanCBE
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Totally humbled by the response of our amazing Acadmey community who kept pupils at home today despite many of them being key workers. We know this isn’t easy but in doing so, you’re helping keep other key workers, our staff, safe. We’re so grateful to you all.
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It’s been an absolute pleasure to welcome our year 7 & NA6 students today. They have adapted brilliantly to our safety measures and their ‘on-boarding’ programme & have been an absolute credit to their families and to themselves. Can’t wait to see year 8, 9, 10 and 11s tomorrow.
Following tonights government updates we will write to parents tomorrow & outline our plans & provide you with what you need to access on-site key worker provision.
Please reassure children that we will do the best we can to support them.
We appreciate your patience
Stay safe
Wishing our year 11 students the best of luck with today’s
#gcseresults2020
You’ve been amazing and today your hard work and tenacity pays off. The start of your next chapter. Don’t forget we will be here today if you have any queries or questions.
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Wishing all our amazing pupils and their families a fabulous Christmas break. You’ve been exceptional this term so enjoy a well earned rest over the next three weeks and we’ll see you in 2020.
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During these difficult times we continue to be truly humbled by the support and understanding of parents, carers and families. Despite some minor technical issues this morning, feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and we are so grateful for your consideration and support.
We are so proud of Kasey Grainger, Laila Rick & Kaitlin Neal for showing our GREAT values.The girls did a 10K race for life to raise money to help cancer charities after Kasey’s dad was diagnosed with cancer last year.They managed to raise £810. Well done!
Great night for the 150 Y10/11 students at the Theatre Royal watching A Christmas Carol. Great way to further explore this key part of the GCSE course! Hope everyone enjoyed it!
#achristmascarol
Can you eat a donut without licking your lips?
Sam M took a very easy victory over Mr Fisher in today’s challenge. Mr Fisher didn’t even make it through three bites - poor! Excellent
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Sam 👌🏻
Wishing Ben (Yr8) the best of luck in the INSPIRING STUDENT CHEF COMPETITION (ICG) 2023 in Bournemouth today. What an amazing opportunity, so very proud! “Good Luck Ben”
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Our amazing NA6 students making their final preparations for an exciting new chapter. Extremely proud of these young people for the tenacity and resilience they have demonstrated.
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you all looked absolutely fabulous too 👌🏻
Harrison Fletcher (yr 9) was interviewed by Loren Hansi Gordon, the Towns Fund Storyteller. Harrison’s ideas for the future of Newark won the July 2020 Newark Writing Competition. This will be written into a compelling story with Harrison’s exciting ideas!
Amazing first day with our wonderful Y7s who were welcomed into our Academy family by our NA6 X12 students and X13. What a great way to start yet another exceptional year.
#proud
#GREAT
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An emotional evening witnessing so many wonderful students receive thier awards at our Celebrate Success event. We are SO proud of each and every one of you. Congratulations and keep being your super selves. Huge thanks to everyone who came.
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Our first ever Newark Academy orchestra. So proud of our fabulous Head of Music, Mr Williams and our amazing students!! Keep up the great practice and we look forward to many performances in 2022 😁
#Orchestra
#music
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Thank you to our amazing hard working students and parents who did such an fantastic job accessing online learning last week. Thank you also for the wonderful feedback comments you have sent through 😊 lets see if we can get even more of you online this week
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It’s been so amazing to welcome our fantastic Year 7s and X12s into our NA family. Great to see so many happy and excited students this morning. We hope you all had a fantastic day and can’t wait to do it all again tomorrow with our entire Academy community.
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Great ‘mock’ exam results day today. Some very happy students and some excellent results. Hard work really does pay off! So proud of every single year 11 today for their wonderful attitude and mature and focussed response.
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On our way back from Alton Towers after a great day! Students have been a credit to our Academy. Approximate eta is 5pm. Parents/carers please avoid the school car park when collecting to allow space for coaches.
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Henry (yr11) is an amazing young man. His effort & determination has been recognised recently; Henry was one of 5 winners across
#NewarkandSherwood
to win an award for resilience. You are a wonderful role model Henry and we couldn’t be prouder of you.
#Resilience
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Sophie Pay, year 9, is our first Newark Academy student to achieve Ruby celebration point status! 3000 celebration points and a true demonstration of ‘Excellence’. Well done Sophie.
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So proud of Y11 today who officially closed the chapter on 11 years of school. We’re all so so proud of you and it was great to celebrate the end of amazing year with you and so many staff. Really looking forward to ending the year on a high at our prom in June
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Great to meet our Y7 ’excellence’ superstars today to celebrate their amazing start to the year! Also great to hear their thoughts on how things have gone so far and what we can do to make our Academy even better.
#alwayslearning
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Blown away by the start of our Year 7 journey. Amazing young people joining us this morning, living our core values through teamwork.
#excited
#crewof2019
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Newark Academy looking very festive this morning - we are trying to enjoy a little Christmas spirit to celebrate the journey we have all been on during these difficult times.
#StaySafe
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At the end of an amazing year for our Academy, we wish all members of our wonderful academy community a fantastic summer break. We hope that you take time to rest and recharge and we wish you all a happy and healthy holiday. See you in September
#community
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Wishing our students and their families a safe and restful half term break. Well done for getting over another hurdle during this pandemic. Try to take time away from the screen and we look forward to seeing you all soon.
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A fantastic
#English
lesson this morning where students have been thinking deeply about their responses to this weeks assignment and to improve their knowledge of
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Christmas Carol. Some amazing work! - well done year 11
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We have received some excellent news regarding one of our ex students. Adam has secured the role of Section Comander, wishing him the best of luck.
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We are extremely proud to announce Newark Academy have successful achieved the ‘Quality in Career Standard’, in recognition of the hard work and commitment provided to support our students with careers education.
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Wow! What an Open Evening. Completely humbled by the number of parents/carers who attended our event. Two packed out sittings for the Headteacher’s presentation and a great buzz across the Academy. Our student helpers were exceptional and thanks to all who came
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Our incredible year 7, 8 and 9 English students have been sending letters to
@RobertJenrick
all about how we can be more environmentally conscious. Well done everyone, fantastic work!
#EarthDay2020
It’s been an extraordinary week in extraordinary times but we wanted to thank everyone associated with our Academy for the togetherness, understanding and kindness shown in helping pupils, parents, carers and staff stay connected to learning and above all else, safe. Thank you.
Next week our year 11 and 13 students will receive their GCSE and A level results. After an extremely difficult period we look forward to celebrating the hard work of our wonderful students
A Level Results Day - Tuesday 10th
GCSE Results Day - Thursday 12th
Good luck everyone🤞🏻
Thank you to our students and parents for your patience as we continue to navigate the current technological challenges. Our website and phone lines are now working. Remote learning will be accessible through Teams tomorrow. Live lessons remain on hold. Apologies.
Amazing curtain raiser at NA last night. We really are enormously privileged to have such special staff and students. Huge thanks to everyone who came. Doors open again at 7.00pm this evening. It's going to be fantastic.
Absolutely phenomenal evening at our Recital. Fantastic opportunity for our musical students to express their talents. Thank you to all the fantastic students and Mr Williams for a brilliant event!
This is one of my most favourite interventions. Nothing prouder than watching our NA6 students help our key stage 3 students develop their
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and
#literacy
skills. Well done everyone, you’re doing a fantastic job!
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#Newark
What a fabulous first day back! It’s been great to welcome all our students back to
@NewarkAcademyUK
and there’s a genuine excitement about the year ahead! We’re building a truly ‘great’ community school!
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#teamandfamily
Germany Trip Update: students have visited the international newspaper museum, Aachen cathedral & the burial and sarcophagus of holy Roman emperor Charlemagne & some time exploring the Weihnachtsmarkt with Kakao mit Sahne!Depart 6am tomorrow ETA 6pm
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A lovely demonstration of gratitude by our Sixth Form students who left a lovely box of biscuits in the staff room this morning along with this note 😊 So proud of how hard working and resilient they continue to be.
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A lovely photo of our gcse linguists who are currently in Germany exploring culture and Christmas spirit! Looking very cold but very happy 😊 Christmas market visit today after a long journey - hope you all sleep well this evening and have a lovely day tomorrow
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A massive ‘well done’ to each of our students who successfully managed to access their first online and face to face lessons today. It was wonderful to see those interactions we have all missed so much. Looking forward to tomorrow’s core lessons. See you in the morning yr10!
It’s GCSE results day tomorrow and students can collect their results from 9.00am. Whatever happens, we are all enormously proud of you all. Newark Academy College sign up also starts tomorrow too so bring your pens! Good luck Year 11s. You deserve every success.
After a few technical glitches this morning it was an excellent day of online and on-site learning. I hope that our students found lessons engaging and helpful. We are so proud of you all and your resilience. Keep it up, we are here to support.
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Newark Academy’s first ever concert is due to commence. Very excited to see our wonderful students performing to family and friends of
#Newark
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We are so proud of the response of all our Academy community following a challenging day, especially our inspirational pupils. It is a sheer joy to work with the most amazing young people you could wish to spend time with. Thank you to everyone for making our Academy GREAT.