Spotlight News

Yesterday, students from 7S, 8S, and 9S took part in an engaging, hands-on engineering workshop delivered by three visiting professionals from RED Engineering, including an electrical engineer and a mechanical engineer.

Year 12 Students attended the Discover Chemical Engineering careers event, run by the Institute of Chemical Engineers.

More than 140 STEM and non-STEM students attended our STEM Lecture last week to hear from Simon Read, creator of Retro Bowl—a game that grew from 699 downloads on day one to reaching #1 on the US App Store, eventually leading to partnerships with the NFL and Apple Arcade.

Our students took on the Ada Lovelace Coding Challenge in collaboration with Rutherford Lab, celebrating creativity, problem-solving, and innovation in computing!

This week, we had the privilege of listening to an inspiring lecture delivered by John White, a guest speaker from Meta — the global technology company behind platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Paul delivered a presentation on the history of the UK Commercial Internet

STEM Team win 2024 STEM Award at recent Northamptonshire Education Awards

Year 8 STEM students enjoy day at the world famous Silverstone Circuit

Nucleus VI Engineering students visited the Silverstone Museum to learn about engineering and F1 motor racing.

A group of Year 9 students travelled to the National Space Centre in Leicester this week to support their STEM learning.

Year 7 Nucleus STEM students visited Cummins, a large engine factory in Daventry, as part of a project launch led by the University of Northampton in association with Cummins.

Over the Easter break, fifteen lucky STEM students went on a two-week trip to South Africa. The trip was fully funded by the UK government's Turing scheme, which provides funding for international education and training opportunities.

A group of Year 8 students participated in the IET Faraday^® Challenge Day on Thursday, 18th April. Students had the opportunity to become real-life engineers for a day by researching, designing, and building solutions to real engineering problems as part of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s IET Faraday^® Challenge Day.

During British Science Week, the girls from 7S were invited to participate in an event hosted by TechGirls and Konika Minolta in Balisdon.

Aston, a Year 7 student and author, visited Hunsbury Park Primary School to deliver a whole school assembly about his love for Astronomy. Along with his parents, Aston, who lives with ADHD and Autism, travelled to the school to share his inspiring journey with the children.

It has been another brilliant fortnight at Northampton Academy with so much going on!

A group of STEM students from Year 10 and Year 12 recently had the opportunity to visit the Omron Automation Lab in Milton Keynes

Dear Parents and Carers,

It has been a brilliant start to the new term with lots going on already.

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A group of Year 10 students have been chosen to participate in a sports development project in South Africa in April 2024.

Students and staff at Northampton Academy are celebrating after being crowned 'STEM Team of the Year' at the Northamptonshire Education Awards. The awards ceremony, sponsored by All Things Business and hosted by TV Presenter Eamonn Holmes, took place at the Inn, County Cricket Ground, Northampton on Friday, 10^th November.