Spotlight News

24/Aug/2023

Raft of Top Grade 9s For GCSE Students at Northampton Academy

Northampton Academy is celebrating today after its Year 11 students were awarded an excellent set of GCSE results, with the school’s top achievers securing a swathe of the highest grade 9.

17/Aug/2023

Two Sixth Formers at Northampton Academy Secure places at the University of Oxford

Year 13s Julia Domaracka and Jana Dedele set to read Biomedical Science and Japanese Studies, respectively at the University of Oxford 

Two further students, Charlotte Craig and Celestina Faola, were accepted to study Medicine 

Two-thirds (66%) of A Level entries at the academy achieved grades A*- B 

21/Jul/2023

BIE Awards 2023

On Thursday, 20th July, we welcomed families to our annual 'Best in Everyone' Awards Celebration evening at Northampton Academy.

17/Jul/2023

Elite Sports End of Term Report

The Elite Sports Programme continued to flourish in 2022-2023.  Commencing with our 4-week trial process in September, a record number of students attended - 228 young athletes (73 for netball and 155 for football). As a result of our assessment protocols and squad balances, across the Football teams and Netball teams respectively in Years 7-8-9-10 we selected 111, with 51 for netball and 60 for football.

11/Jul/2023

Year 10 Students Attend IRIS Conference

A group of Year 10 students attended an IRIS conference in London to showcase their research project on the effects of varying water sources on the growth and reproduction of common duckweed (lemniodeae).

11/Jul/2023

Bude Trip 2023

7/Jul/2023

Sports Leaders Lead Key Stage 2 Get Active Festival at Northamptonshire County Summer Games

As a result of their excellent Sports Leadership across the academic Year, the Year 9-13 Sports Leaders were invited to represent Team Northampton, Leading the KS2 ‘Get Active Festival’ at the Northamptonshire County Summer Games.

5/Jul/2023

Local Historian Visits Year 10

On Friday, 30th June, the History Department welcomed local historian Terry Whenham to talk to Year 10 History students.

28/Jun/2023

World Champion Boxer Inspires Elite Students

Elite Sports students in Year 10 were visited former student and World Champion boxer, Chantelle Cameron.

26/Jun/2023

Astro Aspiration for Year 9 on Space Centre Trip

Did you know that astronauts must exercise for two hours a day to prevent muscle atrophy due to the absence of gravity?

15/Jun/2023

German Exchange Return Visit

13/Jun/2023

National Sports Week

13/Jun/2023

Rounders Team Place 2nd in Town Tournament

In June, a group of girls participated in the Year 9/10 Town Rounders Tournament at Northampton Academy.

7/Jun/2023

New Elite Netball Court Launch

26/May/2023

Northampton Academy Sensory Garden Reaches Finals of National Competition

The garden selected as one of ten finalists in the School Gardening Team of the Year 2023 Category in the RHS Campaign for School Gardening

23/May/2023

NTFC Talent ID Football Event

This week 16 girls from Northampton Academy were invited to Sixfields Stadium, the home of Northampton Town Football Club, to take part in a Talent ID Schools Football Event, which Charlene Ward-Greef, Head of Women & Girls Football at the club organised. 

12/May/2023

Nucleus STEM Lecture - Engineering

In the STEM lecture, a man called Jonathan Keep, who is a mechanical engineer, leads an especially important project for the energy industry. He talked to us about how the government are working on a project called STEP.

12/May/2023

Students Qualify for County Athletics Championships

On Friday, 5^th May, our Yr 8-10 athletics teams headed to Corby Athletics Track to compete in the annual 'Northampton Town Athletics Championships'.

12/May/2023

Digital Leaders Earn Childnet E-Safety Accreditation

Since September, Northampton Academy's Digital Leaders have been working through Childnet's online e-safety modules.

11/May/2023

Elite Sports Trip to University of Northampton Sports Science Faculty

Our Year 10 and 11 Elite Sports cohort were given the opportunity to visit the University of Northampton Waterside Campus as part of the Careers Focus programme during Term 5 of the academic year.