Well done to all our Spelling Bee competitors. The finals took place last week in Celebration assemblies for the Inter House Spelling Bee. The students competed against each other to spell ten words such as Miscellaneous and Encyclopaedia. The finalists were Justice Bikindou year 7 Cygnus and Jessica Taylor year 9 Cygnus, with Jessica Taylor […]

This week our Year 7 and Year 8 students have been rewarded for their fantastic reading achievements in this term’s Accelerated Reader programme. Miss Gardner hosted a ‘Valentine’s Tales and Teapots’ afternoon on Tuesday 13th February in which our top 20 readers in Key Stage 3 tucked into delicious, heart-shaped chocolate biscuits and hot chocolate […]

On Tuesday 13th February, Year 11 students had the wonderful opportunity of watching a live performance of J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls. A company called ‘MANACTCO’ came into the academy to perform the play to the students and then answered their questions afterwards. An Inspector Calls is a key literature text which students have […]

Could MK-HD be the next big thing? Signal 1 are searching for a rising star with Newcastle-under-Lyme College’s £5.5 million Performing Arts Centre, and the OHA Music Department is proud to announce that MK-HD have achieved an amazing accolade in reaching the Signal Star Search final! MK-HD – otherwise known as as Dina Papafotopoulou, Harry […]