🟢U15 City Cup Success🟢 A huge congratulations to our Under 15 City Cup WINNER! Our girls won in true style, beating St Mary's (respected as a very strong side) a whopping 5-0. Mr Couldwell said "Our girl played some of the best football I have seen in my time at Walker."

Students have received their KS4 Options Booklets today. An electronic form will be sent to each student's email address this evening allowing them to select their subjects. This must be completed by Friday 31st March.

Today is Child Exploitation Awareness Day! Help to keep your children safe by keeping yourself informed. Northumbria Police have created a number of useful resources to help parents and carers: ow.ly/5WvB50NlgKQ

The Academy remains closed today to the majority of Years 7-9. Years 10 and 11 should ensure they attend for their appropriate slots: • Year 11 - 9:00-11:30am - Art/Photography exam 12:00-2:30pm - Romeo and Juliet production • Year 10 - 9:00-11:50am - Macbeth production

The Academy is still open today to Year 11: • Art Exam - (All Day) Art/Photography, cohort C • English - Exam revision with exam-board specialist (sets 1-4, 12-3pm) • Geography Revision - Geography students who are not in the English revision (Google Classroom, 1-2pm)

We rounded off our World Book Day celebrations with the most important thing, reading! Our reading mentors joined their buddies in the library for a readathon. #worldbookday2023

The exciting opportunity for the following posts have become available at the Academy: • Director of Maths • Deputy head of MFL • Teacher of English • Cover Supervisor For our details on our latest posts visit: walker.academy/academy-infor…

Today's Mock exams and revision sessions for Yr 11...

Two mock exams today, and don't forget about Yr 11 Science revision after the Academy day.

We're now half-way through our Year 11 Mocks. Today we have English Literature, Childcare and Computer Science. Good luck.

Day 4 of Year 11 Mocks. A reminder that students should be in school for the full day and will take their mock exams between lessons.

To kick off our World Book Day celebrations, staff have been volunteering to read the Yoto Carnegie Award nominated #Needle by @LawrencePatrice. Students have enjoyed hearing Charlene's story and empathising with her struggles. We're all routing for Charlene.

As our Year 11 Mocks continue, today we have...

Welcome back, everyone! This week starts the beginning of our Year 11 Mocks. Today is History... Good luck to all of our Year 11s. 🤞

🟢CCF/Careers🟢 On Saturday a small group of our Year 11 Cadets attended a careers event in York. A few of our students were offered job interviews and others have sent copies of their CVs to different companies across the North East. As always, our Cadets did Walker proud.

🟢Gateway to Walker🟢 New edition of our Academy newsletter, Gateway to Walker, is out NOW, along with our new Safeguarding @WRA News supplement. Gateway to Walker, Edition 3 - bit.ly/Gateway2Walker_3_Feb2… Safeguarding @WRA News, Edition 1 - bit.ly/SafeguardingNewslette…

This time last week a group of Year 10 and 11 students, who are part of the Future Leaders Programme, attended a Taster Day at @NorthumbriaUni The students got to sample some STEM lectures including: a Maths focused secret writing session in Cryptography.

🟢AMSTERDAM TRIP🟢 Our Maths, Languages and History departments are offering some lucky students the chance to visit Amsterdam in the Netherlands! The trip will run 23-26 November 2023. For further details see letter here; bit.ly/WRA_AmsterdamTrip_Nov…

It's always nice to share what our students have been doing in their lessons... As part of their Business and Industry rotation this term, our Year 7s have been designing their own board games. Miss Mosley was especially impressed by some of the students' creativity.

Thanks @tynemet for a great session. Thoroughly enjoyed by all the students.