Our Year 10 pupils are undergoing a series of workshops this week looking at different playwrights, styles and scripts in preparation for their next exam, performing from a text. They have developed their skills and knowledge since the beginning of Year 10 and are looking forward to putting them on show. Well done Year 10 Drama keep it up!

On Tuesday, a group of Year 12 pupils had the opportunity to take part in an Apprenticeship Taster Day at GTG in Wolverhampton.  Pupils were given a tour of the fantastic facilities as well as learning more about the different types of apprenticeship.  Pupils were positive about their experience and we look forward to working with GTG in the future.

Mr David visited Fibbersley Park Academy to deliver an ICT lesson to a class of their Year 4 pupils. The focus was developing their ICT skills and the use of PowerPoint specifically. Mr David was very impressed with how well pupils engaged with the session, thoroughly enjoying teaching the class.

Miss Clarke and Miss Farmer visited Perry Hall Primary School today to deliver Geography lessons to their Year 6 pupils. The lesson focus was a study of the local area. Both teachers were very impressed with how well the Year 6 pupils engaged with their learning and valued the opportunity to visit and work with Perry Hall Primary School.

A team of talented Year 8 French pupils who are excellent footballers were selected to represent the academy at the trust’s inter-school language event. Pupils were compelled by the Futbol Lingo app’s co-founder Pierce Kiembi’s engaging account of how learning languages has helped him in his career as a semi-professional footballer turned academy coach. They were also inspired to learn about just how many languages star professional footballers, coaches and a host of others involved in the industry can speak and how communication in a multi-international world is key to success.

With the aim of gaining points for participation throughout the day, in competition with our fellow matrix academies, our pupils showed excellent teamwork in preparing and delivering a presentation on why their Francophone countries (France and Algeria) should host a football tournament. Presenting to a group of French teachers, entirely in French, did not daunt our pupils, who spoke confidently about their countries’ food, transport links, stadia and star players.

Out on the pitch, our pupils collaborated with their peers from other Matrix academies, demonstrating their football skills whilst picking up some coaching tips from Pierre and brushing up on their languages as they competed.

Our pupils participated fully, interacting both with the visiting speaker from Futbol Lingo and with French speaking footballers from across the trust. They were so inspired by Pierre that the journey home was peppered with Spanish and Italian words and phrases as the pupils used Duolingo to get a head start on becoming increasingly multilingual, a necessity for future career success.

Our wonderful pupils here at Wednesfield performed a short version of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare on Wednesday 26^th June and it was a huge success. Our pupils were brave, confident, and genuinely funny (it was a comedy, don’t panic). They should be incredibly proud of what they achieved, and they even got a standing ovation!

The pupils immensely enjoyed ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at Wolverhampton College on Thursday, they were cheering, laughing and even crying during the production. Some of our own cast of Little Shop of Horrors (in March 2024) enjoyed talking to the cast about their performances and career paths including getting their autographs! Keep your eye out for the next Performing Arts trip.

Over the past 2 weeks, we have visited Perry Hall Primary School to deliver some curriculum transition lessons to their Year 6 pupils.

Year 6 Perry Hall History Lessons: Thursday 20^th June

Miss Giles and Miss Humphries visited Perry Hall Primary School to deliver an engaging lesson about World War 2. Year 6 pupils developed their ability to use source material to explore what life was like at home during this period of time.

Year 6 Perry Hall Creative Writing Lessons 

On Wednesday 26^th June, Mrs Bradbury and Mrs Dorsett travelled to Perry Hall Primary School to deliver a creative writing lesson to their Year 6 pupils. Pupils responded excellently and produced some lovely work.

Year 6 pupils from Edward the Elder came to our school on Thursday 27^th June to participate in a Science lesson delivered by Mr Wilkins.

Superbly behaved impeccably and were enthralled to learn about acids and alkalis. After an engaging introduction to the topic, pupils participated in the practical experiment to test for acids and alkalis. They thoroughly enjoyed this, recording their results and drawing conclusions against the PH scale.

Mr Wilkins was very impressed with high standards of behaviour and enthusiasm of the Year 6 Edward the Elder pupils, plus their sensible approach and focus whilst completing the experiment.

We will be holding a few open events this year to give all prospective Year 7 parents and pupils the chance to come and visit us. These events will give you a little insight into what is means to be a pupil at Wednesfield Academy and give you the chance to ask any questions you may have.

Open Evening will take place on Thursday 19^th September 2024 4:00pm – 7:00pm 

Open Mornings in October will take place on Thursday 3^rd October 2024 9:00-10:00am and Friday 4^th October 2024 9:00-10:00am.

On Friday we celebrated World Music Day by groups of pupils performing for staff and other pupils as they entered school.  It prompted an excellent atmosphere, really showing what Wednesfield Academy is all about!