Year 10 Computer Science students at Northampton Academy have been building their computing skills with help from a team of IT experts Software engineers from Travis Perkins’ head office who paid a visit to share their coding know-how.

Students at Northampton Academy are today celebrating their A Level success, which has seen all those who applied to university successfully securing a place – including a record proportion going to top Russell Group institutions.

Official figures released on January 19th 2017 show that Northampton Academy has been rated the top school in Northampton and second in Northamptonshire for the level of progress made by students from leaving primary school to GCSE Level. 

A group of students were invited to attend The National Enterprise Challenge Competition launch event in Covent Garden. Last year Northampton Academy’s Key Stage 4 team ‘Vendinary’ won this competition. The students were very excited and enjoyed a fantastic evening featuring talks from all the challenge supporters and the ambassador of the competition, former ‘Dragon’ Theo Paphitis. During his speech Mr Paphitis addressed Team Vendinary directly saying “Northampton Academy has pulled at my heart strings and believe me, they are hard to find” and he later thanked them on twitter saying “Great to see and hear from @northacad students too and thanks for my card - much appreciated”