Freebrough Academy

Freebrough students make the news

whitea — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:28:21 +0000

Today students have been working hard all day to produce the news through their eyes. Reporting on various topics and creating either written reports or video reports in their very own news studio. They had to stick to a dead line like any other news room would have to and produce articles that interested them.

“I really enjoyed making the reports it was a fun day and i liked putting our point out “- Bethany

“I thought today was good because we were writing reports about the news and it was fun” – Lateasha

“It was a great experience and it allowed us to try out something very different that was very fun, we also received a free BBC pen! ” – Laura and Sian

“Today was an amazing day because I enjoyed writing reports about the news” – Ellie-Mae

MFC Foundation’s World Book Challenge

whitea — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:38:37 +0000

Nine students from year 7 attended the MFC Foundation’s World Book Challenge held at The Riverside Stadium. Students were given a tour of the Football Club and even sat in the home team’s changing room as well as sitting in the executive stand.

The students were then set the task of producing some ideas for a book based on the topic of MFC and Middlesbrough by two local author’s; students’ ideas will contribute to the final book that will be published in the future.

They finished off the session by attending a creative writing class held by the LMYL (Lend Me Your Literacy) group where they were given a photo and from that photo the students had to produce a story in less than 200 words.

All the students had an amazing morning and produced some excellent work. Well done!

READ THE LATEST EDITION OF OUR FABULOUS NEWSPAPER!

Kimberley Forteath — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:20:52 +0000

Our latest edition of the Freebrough Flyer was published as part of the March issue of Coastal View and Moor News, which now reaches an amazing 25,000 local homes!

We are proud of our Academy and we like to share our good news so that you can be proud of us too.

You can read our latest issue by clicking on the link below:

Freebrough Flyer March 2015

Huge thanks go to our friends at Coastal View and our advertisers.

OUR FANTASTIC PARENT FEEDBACK

Kimberley Forteath — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:25:36 +0000

At Freebrough Academy we value parent feedback. Knowing what we do well and what we can improve on helps us to provide the best provision for our students.

Please take a look at this overview of our Ofsted Parent View Feedback. If you are a Freebrough parent you can add your feedback to the Ofsted Parent View site by clicking here.

Nanny McPhee with a twist is a hit!

whitea — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:49:04 +0000

Well done to the cast of Nanny McPhee with a Twist. You have put on another spectacular show and you have done yourself, your parents, the Academy and Mrs Skidmore proud.

Lets hope the Brown family need no more Nannies!

WE ARE RECRUITING!

Kimberley Forteath — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:48:04 +0000

We are seeking to fill the following role:

Learning Support Assistant SCP 16 – 18 (£16,969 – £17,714)

37 Hours per week, Term Time plus one additional Day

(pro rata £14,423 – £15,057)

The Academy has an opening for a Learning Support Assistant to provide learning intervention for students with special educational needs. This role is predominantly to support students with basic numeracy difficulties. This individual will support students with the curriculum across the Academy and within our specialist provision for SEN students. This role may also include some 1-2-1 work with students.

We wish to appoint a patient and empathetic person who shares our passion for education and who is committed to supporting the Academy in continuing success. The successful candidate will be hard-working, creative and adaptable with the ability to demonstrate initiative and work co-operatively within a team.

For further information or details of how to apply and to download an application pack, please visit the ‘Working at Freebrough’ section of our website by clicking here.

Closing date for applications: Monday 23 March 2015 at noon. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 13 April 2015

ZENNY HANDS OUT HIS FIRST HOOVES

Kimberley Forteath — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:50:05 +0000

During tutorial sessions students have been working hard to record evidence of their enterprise skills in action at school. As part of the tutorial programme every student has their own personal enterprise tracker where they can record examples of how they have demonstrated an enterprise skill in action across the curriculum. Students are working towards achieving a bronze, silver and ultimately gold award in each of Zenny Zeebrough’s enterprise skills. For a bronze award six examples of a skill in action are needed, 12 for a silver award and 20 to achieve gold. Each term students will be able to apply for new awards and will be awarded with their ‘Hooves of Enterprise’ badge to wear on their blazer.

In total 82 awards have been achieved by students in the first term. This is a fantastic achievement!

The enterprise awards are an integral part of our learner qualities programme. To achieve Expert Learner status students should have achieved awards in many of the enterprise skills. This demonstrates our commitment to ensuring all students are able to show an entrepreneurial mind-set, which is vital in further education and employment.

GETTING IN A BUZZ ABOUT THE SPELLING BEE

Kimberley Forteath — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:45:14 +0000

Freebrough students Luke Dunning, Erika Stephenson and Eden Duncan have been participating in the Routes into Languages Foreign Language Spelling Bee since September 2014. They were part of a group initially selected because of their outstanding performance in their baseline tests for Modern Foreign Languages during their Year 7 early transition period.

The Foreign Language Spelling Bee is a national competition for students in Year 7 to practise and improve their vocabulary, spelling and memory skills in a foreign language. During the competitions students have one minute to translate and spell as many words as they can in the foreign language, which this year is Spanish.

The aforementioned students have made it through the class and also the school part of the competition and will now go on to represent Freebrough Academy at the Regional Finals at Newcastle University in April 2015.

FREEBROUGH DEFINITELY HAS TALENT!

Kimberley Forteath — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:58:08 +0000

Thursday 26 February 2015 saw our annual showcase of fantastic Freebrough student talent.

Guests were treated to a wonderful evening of music, dance and performances at the Freebrough’s Got Talent event. All acts were fantastic and the judges had some difficult choices to make.

The winners were:

3rd place – Nicole Case

2nd place – Lauren Wren

1st place – Joint winners – Sian Husband, Jake Gallagher and Jack Harvey

Well done to all acts involved – we look forward to seeing you next year with even bigger and better performances.

WE ARE RECRUITING!

Kimberley Forteath — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:49:10 +0000

We currently have the following vacancies:

Assistant Director of Learning – Maths

We are looking to appoint an outstanding individual to join our committed and motivated Maths faculty with a proven track record of outstanding teaching and pupil outcomes. They will develop teaching and learning in the faculty, share innovative and outstanding practice, undertake research particularly in mastery approaches and develop resources.

The successful candidates will be ambitious, committed and passionate about the power of education to transform the lives of young people and have a good knowledge and experience in teaching their subject area, as well as support the Assistant Principal in the development and leadership within the faculty at key Stage 3 and 4.

Teacher of Health and Social Care

We are looking to appoint an outstanding teacher to join our committed and motivated technology team, to contribute to our journey to outstanding.

Candidates should have knowledge and experience in teaching health and social care at key stage 4 and a willingness to teach ICT at key stage 3, which will be supported within the faculty. The successful candidates will be ambitious, committed and passionate about the power of education to transform the lives of young people.

For further information of how to apply and to download an application pack, please click here to visit the ‘Working at Freebrough’ section of our website.

Closing date for applications: Monday 23 March 2015 at 12 noon. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 13 April 2015.