On Thursday, 10th December, 2009, Manchester Academy hosted the launch of the i-trees project.
Manchester Academy picked up the ‘Academy Partnership Award’ at the Education Business Awards in London on 19th November 2009. The award was in recognition of the academy’s ‘outstanding’ partnerships with other schools, local business and other community groups.
As part of Black History Month, the Black Health Agency [BHA] launched a competition to inspire students across Manchester to explore their identities. Students were asked to complete the sentence ‘Being Black is…’ to express what the phrase means to them.
This short film depicting the story of Simon Armitage's poem 'Hitcher' was made by three Year 10 students.
St. François Girls' College [our partner school from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago] and students at Manchester Academy exchanged stories that they composed.
Moss Side Stories is a multimedia exhibition project that enables the pupils of Manchester Academy to explore their own life stories in the form of poetry, prose, painting and video art.
And in a school with 63 languages spoken and pupils from across the world, the stories are memorable, moving and often inspirational.
Miss Pagett and Mr Smith took 5 Year 10 Spanish students to Asturias in Northern Spain for a three-day language enrichment trip organised with The Valnalón Foundation.
Manchester Academy, which replaced Ducie High six years ago, has been hailed as 'outstanding' by inspectors - who have awarded it the highest possible grade.
The atmosphere was alive on Nigeria Day with music, food and colourful traditional clothing. The hearing impaired team hosted a celebration of all things Nigerian for students, parents and staff to enjoy.