Students and staff at Northampton Academy are celebrating after maintaining a ‘Good’ rating from Ofsted in a recent short inspection, with inspectors saying there is enough evidence to suggest the school could be ‘Outstanding’ in a full inspection.

Year 9 Nucleus STEM students went on a trip to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Year 7 students have been studying the Norman Conquest and looking at different ways William Duke of Normandy defended England. Their homework was to research a medieval castle and present their work. 

Northampton Academy was delighted to welcome Olivia Taylor, a student from the University of Cambridge, currently in her second year reading Psychological and Behavioural Science at Clare College. In addition to her studies, Olivia is an ambassador for the Target Scheme, which aims to encourage students from under-represented groups to consider applying to Cambridge.

IT Girls Allowed is an event hosted and organised by Barclaycard, designed to inspire Key Stage3 girls to consider IT as one of their chosen subjects for GCSE, and possibly even a career in the field. A group of Year 9 students attended the event and enjoyed a day of information and challenges based around robotics, coding and encryption.