News from Etonbury Academy

This past month has flown by and everyone at Etonbury Academy is settling back into school life. It’s good to be back and see our children learning, socialising with their friends and enjoying school.

We have had the pleasure of welcoming prospective parents for personal tours of the school throughout these first few weeks. The walkabouts provide them with a real sense of what we offer. We believe it is a small, compassionate and exceptional community and we hope they feel this when they walk around. We will continue with the personal tours through this term as more families set out to choose their child’s next school. Families with children moving from Year 4 into their next school are welcome to join us on Thursday 11 November 2021 for our Open Evening starting with a presentation at 5.30pm. Please do contact us if you would like to take a look around or attend our Open Evening on 01462 730391 or etaoffice@bestacademies.org.uk

At the time of writing this we are looking forward to welcoming our parents into school for an information evening on our Year 5 residential trip, our ‘Starting Secondary’ evening for our Year 6 parents/carers and our ‘Next Steps’ evening for our Year 8 parents/carers. It’s a busy month, but it's really good to see our families face to face. We don’t underestimate the importance of these events especially after the distance we have had to endure during the pandemic.

There have already been a number of successes across the school including Emma winning the Arlesey Town Football Club badge competition, Aqidah awarded the runner up in a National writing competition, ETA Juniors won the St Mary’s Church Scarecrow competition, Liv and Abi have been selected to play for the U13s Herts County Cricket team, Lennon playing for Cambridge United against Liverpool, Yvie and Maddie selected for the County Netball teams. Congratulations to them all.

Aiming higher is just one of our values that is embedded across both staff and students. During September we finalised our Student Leadership Team and are pleased to announce that Heidi will lead as Student Principal, Isabell and Mille Mae are appointed as Student Vice Principals, and Elias, Raul, Isabelle, Lucas and Ashlee also join the Student Leadership team. These exceptional students will play a large part in our school’s development, and have taken over from a formidable team who were awarded UK Student Voice Runner Up in 2020.

October is Black History Month, led by Miss Young, and staff and students have been learning about inspirational men and women. We continue to work together to ensure equality and inclusivity is embedded across the school through the curriculum and the activities we all undertake.

It is fantastic to see our whole school extra-curricular activities in full swing including choir, table tennis, yoga, debating, Boxercise, further maths, LGBTQ+ , digital drawing and many, many more. The number of children exploring new interests is quite remarkable and we are really proud to have so many staff prepared to give up their own time to lead on so many different and inspiring activities.

Finally, we are really grateful to our community who have kindly given up their time to offer careers talks. These provide valuable insights for our students, especially those who have no contacts in the areas themselves. Our community is really important to us, and we hope to be welcoming many more of you into the school over the coming months as we finally get back to organising our performances.