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Alumnus Thomas plans sponsored Machu Picchu Trek
All Saints' Academy Sixth Form alumnus Thomas Etheredge is hoping to go on a trek to Machu Picchu in Peru, in order to raise money and awareness for the charity 'The Children's Society'. Thomas is currently a first year student at the University of Bath studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He graduated All Saints' Academy in the summer…
Tenner Tycoon
Buzzing Year 9 Business Students from All Saints’ Academy, Bournside, Winchcombe and Pittville School took part in a multi-school enterprise challenge and official launch of Tenner Challenge led by Spirax Sarco and Young Enterprise leaders in the Cotswold Hall. Students were pushed out of their comfort zone from the start with the challenge being to buy…
All Saints’ teacher wins Inspirational Teacher Award
Miss Wife, All Saints’ Academy’s Head of Mathematics, was overwhelmed with pride after discovering she was to be awarded the prestigious University of Bath Project Support Award for Inspirational Teachers. The Project Support Award for Inspirational Teachers recognises and celebrates the crucial role teachers play in supporting students with extended projects. Miss Wife has been…
Festive Carol Service at St Mary’s
On Thursday 15th December the All Saints' Academy choir and readers performed at St Mary's, Cheltenham Minster in Cheltenham for the annual Carol Service. Students performed to a church full of parents, carers, staff, students and members of the community. The choir led congregational hymns of Once in Royal David's City, O Little Town of Bethlehem,…
Students create Christmas Hampers for YMCA
Generous students, parents, carers and staff created thoughtful Christmas hampers filled with food and gifts. Thirty-four hampers were hand delivered by Head Students to the Cheltenham YMCA on Wednesday 13th December. This was our 5th year of running the hamper project, students and staff come up with incredibly inventive and creative ideas for the boxes each…
Students amaze at The Roses Theatre
Twenty nine students from Year 8 – 11 took to the Roses Theatre stage in Tewkesbury on 15th November. The students gave a fantastic performance to a packed auditiorium. Special mentions go to Chantae Sellers, Peter Etheredge, Callum Bell, Tamzyn Regan and Harvey White who all put in outstanding performances. Mr Aitchison who directed the production and added…
All Saints’ Academy bucks the trend across Cheltenham in overall KS4 performance
All Saints’ Academy continues to make great progress, climbing up the recently published school performance tables for Progress 8 in Cheltenham. Progress 8 measures the overall student performance in GCSE nationally. Principal Dermot McNiffe puts this rapid progress down to “the high expectations that are set for all students at All Saints’ Academy. We have…
Cheltenham Literature Festival Visit
Student Report by Keenan Taylor On Friday 13th October, eleven Sixth Form students (including myself) visited the Cheltenham Literature to participate in a Journalism and Publishing workshop. We arrived promptly – nine-forty sharp – eager to see what the day would hold. We sat in a tent named ‘The Nook’, joined by several other schools, and…
Year 11 students continue to excel at All Saints’ Academy
All Saints’ Academy students achieve their best ever Maths and English results in the most challenging GCSE examinations ever. An outstanding 12% improvement at A*-C GCSE Mathematics heralded a significant amount of excellent grades at the higher level including several at the new maximum Grade 9. This puts a good number of All Saints’ students…
Another year of record breaking results for A-Level students
All Saints’ Academy produced another set of record breaking A-level results with a 100% of students gaining an A* to E pass. 74% of Sixth Form students achieved A* – E in 3 or more subjects, which is an improvement of 8% on 2016. Value added scores for A-level have significantly improved too, now putting the…
