23/06/24
Sixth Form Sports Leaders support adaptive sports day - Dunston Academy
Netherthorpe Sixth Sports Leaders supported Dunston Academy's first-ever adaptive sports event to celebrate pupils with disabilities.
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21/06/24Funky Friday!
Beginning on Friday the 28th of June, and continuing until the end of term, we will be having a lunchtime disco on Cavendish Court (weather permitting and except Friday the 5th of July). We will be taking requests for upbeat songs from each form. Please discuss this with your for...
18/06/24Fantastic Year 7 Religious Studies work
Miss Swift kindly shared these amazing assessments completed by Year 7 over half term in Religious Studies. “They were set the challenge of building and consolidating their learning of Judaism and produced their own ‘Guidebooks to Judaism’. There have been some fanta...
14/06/24Inclusive PE department
This week our PE teachers have been learning some new skills. Coached by a specialist from the Derbyshire Institute of Sport, the teachers have been learning how to teach wheelchair badminton, tennis and other sports and will be incorporating wheelchair-based sport into their lessons. This is n...
11/06/24Lyla is flying high!
Congratulations to Lyla Sears-Piccavey in Year 12 on completing her 14,000ft tandem skydive over half term to raise money for Asthma and Lung UK in memory of ex-student Jordan Smitheman who sadly passed away earlier this year. Thank you to everyone who supported Lyla and donated to this important ca...
07/06/24Weekly Update
A reminder that you that you can access our weekly parent/student notices via the link below. This contains lots of information about extra-curricular activities, canteen menus and community events. https://www.netherthorpe.academy/parents
07/06/24Family Sports Day Success!
Many thanks to everyone who came along and helped to make our recent family engagement event such a success. Congratulations to our overall winners: The Flower Girls! Many thanks to Sian Jackson and Ms Stimpson for leading the event. Look out for an email next week which will announce ou...
15/05/24Mental Health Awareness Week
This year, Mental Health Awareness Week takes place between 13th - 19th May 2024. To honour the occasion, the Mental Health Foundation (a UK-based charity) have launched their campaign titled 'Movement: Moving more for our mental health'. Although remaining active is a crucial el...
08/05/24Family engagement evening: team building and old-fashioned sports day. Thursday 23rd may
Our next Family Engagement Event which will take place from 5:30 to 7:30pm on Thursday 23rd May. The evening will take place in the school hall and will involve a number of team-building activities and some old-fashioned sports day races, with a number of high (and low!) quality prizes to be w...
08/05/24Netherthorpe Staff get colourful to celebrate pride week
08/05/24Netherthorpe Pride Week
A wide range of activities are taking place to celebrate Netherthorep Pride Week
10/01/24Y10 Students learn to create 3 traditional tapas dishes at Coghlan's cookery school in matlock
The Y10 Spanish group took a day trip to Coghlan’s Cookery School in Matlock on Monday to learn to create three traditional tapas dishes. Split into teams, they were each responsible for one dish: leek and potato tortilla, patatas bravas, meatballs and tomato sauce. After carefully following t...