News from Etonbury Academy

We started the month of May with our Juniors joining the largest children’s choir in the world, Young Voices, at the 02 Arena. Our children and staff all had a fantastic time. Shortly after this trip our Year 6s have undertaken their national tests which assessed their skills and knowledge. They don’t tell us everything about our children, but we are lucky enough to know them as individuals and are looking forward to seeing them flourish in their secondary years. They ended their test week celebrating their achievements with sporting and creative activities, and a non-uniform day. This will soon be trumped by a day at Harry Potter World! Our Juniors have also been enjoying the Secondary facilities this term making pizzas in Food Technology.

Our Year 10s have completed their mock examinations and Year 11s have started their GCSEs. Mr Matthew Harpin, Head of Year 11, led their final assembly with achievement certificates and awards to wish them well. We are looking forward to celebrating more with them at the end of school event. In sports, our Juniors and Year 7s remain undefeated in rounders, and our Year 7 and 8 athletics teams have done incredibly well with so many qualifying in their events. Huge congratulations for the Year 9/10 District Athletics team too, in prticular to Harry for winning the 400m hurdles and Finn for winning the 300m sprint, they are now off to the finals!

Technology plays an important part in our school. Juniors are given their own Chromebooks as they start in Year 5. From time to time our Juniors also get to use the secondary facilities which include an Apple Mac suite and Design technology/Engineering workshops. Year 7 have recently been designing digital landscapes on our tablets and learning about influential artists. During Mental Health Awareness Week our Junior and Secondary students learnt about the impact of loneliness on mental health and the practical steps they can take to address it. We also held the opening of our staff wellbeing garden. It was a beautiful sunny day and we welcomed representatives from our local Town Councils, the local authority and BEST Trustees who kindly supported this project.

It was a pleasure to welcome Steve Buck, Mayor of Stotfold, to take a look around the school with Mr Evason and discuss more opportunities for us to support the local community. We look forward to strengthening our links further and getting our children involved in more exciting Stotfold developments.

The jubilee celebrations have been enjoyed mostly by eating cake! But, there have been tea parties, bunting making, and jubilee themes in Food Technology. Mrs Cook kindly made a Jubilee recipe book too.

As we approach the end of term, we still have a number of trips going out and of course the Matilda performance which we can’t wait to show you.

ARLESEY PHARMACY

Are looking to recruit a Part-time Pharmacy Counter Assistant

to join our team. As a pharmacy counter assistant you will be the first point of contact with our patients, providing them with the best possible advice or refer them to the pharmacist is appropriate. You will also be required to manage telephone repeat prescription requests, prescription handling and counter stock replenishment. Previous pharmacy experience is advantageous. Ideally MCA qualified. Please apply in writing for the attention of Mr Shah or email arleseypharmacy@outlook.com Tel. 01462 731200

www.arleseypharmacy.co.uk