Virtual prospectus
Is your child starting secondary school soon?
This page is designed to help you get to know our academy. We know that COVID-19 makes it harder for you to get to see all the schools in the area, but we hope this virtual experience will help.
We encourage families who are thinking about applying to us, to spend time working through all the resources on this page. If you still have any questions about whether our academy is right for your child, get in touch!
Watch the video:
A welcome from our Principal, Mr Beard
Watch the video:
'A Day in the Life of a Year 7 Student'
This short film was created in June 2021 to show primary school children what life in high school is like.
Read:
Academy Life magazine
See all the exciting things our students have been upto over the last few months!
Watch the video:
'Proud: a year in the life of our academy'.
This video shows you what our school life is like. It was filmed between July 2019 and February 2020.
Video tour:
Wander around the academy in this three part tour
Download our Minecraft version of the academy, - and take yourself on a tour!
Executive Headteacher Mr Brice and his family built a Minecraft version of our academy.
It was built from the original architects' plans, and is very accurate.
You can tour around the academy yourself this way!
Instructions and downloads
Instructions:
Please ask an adult before installing anything.
This Minecraft version of the academy was created on MinecraftPE for iPad. You can upload it to an iOS device or an Android device. There is also a PC (Java) version also below.
On an iPad…
You can download the MinecraftPE zip file by clicking this link.
Save the downloaded zip file on your iPad by selecting the Files app and navigate to …
On My iPad / Minecraft / games / com.mojang / minecraftWorlds
Once it is in this folder, you will need to click on it to extract it.
Restart your Minecraft app and the world will appear for you to choose.
On a PC…
A version for PC version (Java) can be downloaded here
You will need to put it in your appdata/.minecraft/saves folder and extract it.
What can you do in our Minecraft academy?
Go explore
Just go for a wander and find your way around. can you find the…
Theatre
Climbing Wall
Dining Hall
Sports Hall
and the different subject areas?
Take on a challenge:
find the Music Practice Room and ring the bell !
find the Sports Hall and jump on the trampoline (how high can you go?)
find the 10 enchanted apples – they are dotted around the academy.
decorate a room and share your creation (you will need to change to Creative mode)
Find out about the lessons we teach
Find out more about our offer:
