At Shrewsbury Academy you will have the opportunity to learn about lots of different, exciting and new concepts. We want you to build a passion and a curiosity for the unknown. You will take part in lessons across all curriculum areas in our school starting with our core subjects of English, Maths and Science at a minimum of four lessons a week, and incorporating Humanities, Creative Arts and Technical Arts, PE and MFL into your weekly program. There will also be the chance weekly to work with your form tutor on important topics to do with the growing and changing world around you in PSHE.
Alongside this, to encourage all our students to build a place within our community, we would like all students starting year 7 to take on our year 7 challenge.
Week 1: Make a new friend, be kind to someone you have never met, find out the favourite biscuits of three different teachers, discover what animal sits on Mrs Grant’s office desk, gain 5 grade 1 lesson gradings. Home-school agreement signed.
Week 2: Ask Mr Lawrenson about his time in NYC, share what you are reading with your English teacher, find out what clubs are available after school, try a new food in the canteen, gain 8 lesson grade 1s.
Week 3: Find out which member of the English department has lived in another country, discover a fact in three of your subjects, attend an after-school activity, begin reading something new, talk about what careers interest you with your form tutor, gain 10 lesson grade 1s.
Week 4: Share with your parents the highs and lows of your first 4 weeks, be the first person to ask a question about what you are learning in a lesson, gain 10 lesson grade 1s, create something to show the learning you have done this month – through drawing, painting, collage, clay, Photography, IT or through the written word and show your form tutor.
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