News from Pix Brook Academy

Pix Brook Academy News

February already! For the first time in two years we are not spending this time of year pro-occupied with COVID and are instead thinking about other things for the year ahead.

While one big challenge is hopefully behind us there continue to be other pressures that our young people have to face. Undoubtedly the situation globally worries many of our children as does the continued pressure on household finances. It is our job to help young people understand the ups and downs of life and do our best to keep all things in context. As a school we know the value of discussion and spend time simply talking with the children about the world beyond Stotfold. We know that for many of them their world begins and ends in this part of Central Bedfordshire, helping them to consider our place in the world is just one part of teaching children and we try to do so by giving every opportunity to have visits and visitors from outside the school.

We also have a programme to enable pupils to personally develop via our tutor and citizenship elements of the curriculum. This will include a whole host of topics including equality, poverty, faith, employment and any number of other areas that are so important to young people in their education.

As the school continues to grow further opportunities arise as a consequence of new staff joining the school. This year it has been fantastic to have our prospective artists enjoying art club, future scientists attending forensics club, Chess club attracting more pupils and the general number of activities increasing every term. This will hopefully continue as we look to recruit our next round of teaching and support staff. Over the course of the next few months another eleven teachers will join the school including music, drama, science, ICT and many others. As a school that has grown from under 60 to almost 600 pupils in three years, with a corresponding increase in staffing, it is great to see the opportunities for pupils and staff expand accordingly.

The next few months are extremely busy as we begin to prepare our pupils for assessments and the next stage of their education. Working in schools is exciting and fast moving without any time to pause. At PBA we are always thinking about the next step, and what needs to be in place to make that successful. Fortunately we have a body of pupils who are both receptive and excited by what they need to do next and as such the time really does fly by.

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