On the last day of the autumn term, Friday, 16^th December, Manchester Academy welcomed back Father Christmas on his brief stopover before he visited the local hospitals.

 

On Thursday, 15^th December, the 7L class held a Pea Fayre where their parents and guardians were also invited to attend.

 

A group of 13 students have successfully applied to take part in a brand new project with the Whitworth Art Gallery this year. The Gallery challenged our students to work in partnership with them to create some products to sell in their shops.

 

Manchester Academy is proud to be a Mosaic school. In partnership with Mosaic, we ran a mentoring programme and an enterprise challenge.

 

On Sunday 13^th November, six Manchester Academy pupils visited London to perform at the prestigious Westminster Abbey alongside students from our fellow ULT academies and UCST schools from across the UK.

 

On Tuesday 1^st November, we celebrated National Family Literacy Day at Manchester Academy. Parents and carers of year 7 and 8 students were invited to join their children and participate in a range of literacy activities.

 

On Monday 3^rd October, our Academy Cadets held a uniform day (students in uniform for the day approx 15) to recruit new members to the detachment.

Some of our ex-students recently visited us to talk about their careers and life after leaving Manchester Academy. They were quite inspirational and they had some really positive messages to share.