On Wednesday 3rd July a selected group of students worked with flautist Poppy Wheeler from Derbyshire Music Services on a lunchtime session entitled “Workshop Wednesday”.  Each week for the last four weeks various professional musicians have held these lunchtime workshops introducin...

Netherthorpe Sixth Sports Leaders supported Dunston Academy's first-ever adaptive sports event to celebrate pupils with disabilities.

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...

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...

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...

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...