Spotlight News

Well done to our Year 8 Elite Netball Team came 3rd out of 12 schools in the County Plate.

Congratulations to our Year 7 Athletics Team have been crowned as 'Indoor Athletics County Champions' at the Level 3 County Games.

The Legal Apprentice is Kingsley Napley’s legal competition for first-year Key Stage 5 students

Students from Northampton Academy visited the Hope Centre in Northampton to present a cheque for £1463.40 on behalf of the school.

In January, two of our Nucleus VI students completed their hospital work experience at Northampton General Hospital. Both students had a fantastic week, with the privilege of seeing many different aspects of the medial profession

Congratulations to Virgil, who has been crowned as the U19s Table Tennis County Champion after winning at the County Individual Championships.

Northampton Academy has entered two art pieces by Prendia Qehaja and Nadia Nyarko, into the International High School Arts Festival.

26 students were invited to a PrepareRobo workshop which was hosted in school. Students in groups of 3 were asked to build and program a robot that could continuously move around on its own without bumping into anything. 

Year 8 twins Amber and Summer along with their friend Madalina, took part in the Northampton District Scout Group’s Big Sleep Out, to raise money for The Hope Centre. 

During January, our Year 7 and YEAR 9 Nucleus STEM students attended the First Lego League Competition, which took place in Corby.

On Thursday 23^rd January we welcomed Dr Alex Woodacre from the University of Northampton to present the latest lecture in our STEM Lecture Series.

Michael Ellis MP, took time out of his busy schedule to visit the school and to give support to Mr Clyne in his campaign to get road safety improved in the area outside Northampton Academy.

To begin our winter STEM Primary Outreach series, we were pleased to welcome St. Andrew’s CEVA primary school to Northampton Academy to take part in the first of our workshops.  The pupils experienced two workshops delivered by Mr Swallow, Miss Duncan, Miss Saunders and Dr Fishwick.

We introduced our youngest students to Northampton Academy’s Careers Programme by way of an event entitled, ‘Guess Who?

To celebrate the last Breakfast Book Club before Christmas, students decided to take part in a literary spin on the Secret Santa tradition - by gifting each other a mystery library book, whilst enjoying mince pies. Lots of thought went into the book choices, and even Mrs Sullivan and Mrs Vince got involved.

To say thank you to students for all their hard work this year, Northampton Academy hosted a Winter Fair to mark the end of term.

This year's Christmas Cracker show was a great success, a huge well done to all those that took part and thank you to all the staff who made this show happen.

Northampton Academy would like to wish all students, parents and carers a restful break. We look forward to seeing students back to school on Wednesday 8th January 2020.

We were delighted to welcome Lumbertubs Primary School, Headlands Primary School, Blackthorn Academy and Rectory Farm Primary School to Northampton Academy.

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.