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  • 13/01/23

    YEAR 9 HIGHER PROJECT, VISIT TO SOUTHILL ESTATE

    We have 26 Year 9 students who have been working on a Higher Project Qualification, this is an independent project which requires students to choose a title and research for themselves a title of their own design within the topic of Black British History.   On Tuesday this group visited t...
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  • 16/12/22

    YEAR 9 BLACK HISTORY HPQ GROUP VISIT TO BEDFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES

    This week, 26 of the students who are involved in our Higher Project Qualification group visited Bedfordshire Archives to learn more about the primary sources that are available for them to use in their projects and how to access them. Samuel Whitbread Academy has been chosen by Pearson / Edexcel ex...
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  • 11/11/22

    Year 9 Remembrance Day Poems​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

      Our Year 9 students were tasked with writing a poem for Remembrance Day during their recent Engaging Minds lesson. Our staff had the tough decision to select the top three poems. They were super impressed with the quality, volume and effort from the year group. A huge well done to William...
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  • 07/10/22

    Black History Month - Why October?

    When we think of Black History month in Britain it is still very common for us to celebrate the works of famous Black American Civil Rights activists like Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks. However, what we now need to focus on is the massive influence that Black people, activists and members of ou...
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  • 07/10/22

    Black History Month at SWA

      This year Black History month is being celebrated through a wide range of tutor time activities. Not only have we had our Equality and Diversity Ambassadors write and produce an assembly, but also developed tutor time activities and a competition to link these together.   Our th...
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  • 23/09/22

    Year 11 Awards Evening 2022

    The Year 11 awards ceremony took place on Wednesday 21th September 2022 where we asked teachers to nominate students for outstanding academic achievement awards in all courses. The Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards were presented by: Miss Priano (Head of Year) Mrs Kirkman (Associate Pr...
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  • 23/09/22

    Year 13 Adwards Evening 2022

    The Year 13 awards ceremony took place on Wednesday 14th September 2022 where we asked teachers to nominate students for outstanding academic achievement awards in all courses. The Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards were presented by: Mr Lee Huckle (Head of Sixth Form) Mrs Susie Hoad (A...
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  • 29/04/22

    Year 10 Att10tive and Year 12 Youth Ambassadors

      The Youth Ambassadors are a group of Year 12 students who volunteered earlier this year, with the help of Montell Neufville at Att10tive, to organise events for the lower year groups at Samuel Whitbread Academy. The event that the Youth Ambassadors were asked to organise was the Year 10 Em...
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  • 17/03/22

    HAART INTERNATIONAL DEBATE COMPETITION

    This month Samuel Whitbread Academy entered three teams into the Haart International Debate competition. In this competition, school students from around the globe have been debating contentious topics from the values of online learning to the importance of freedom of speech. In the first round, all...
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  • 28/01/22

    Match Report by Sixth Form Student

    Aspiring journalist, Year 13 John Bragg has written and edited a brilliant match report on the U18 football quarter-final match against Beechen Cliff. To read please see below. 
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  • 28/01/22

    High Attainders: Debate, Drama and Critical Thinking

      The art of debating is something that requires students to utilise their higher order thinking skills. It requires students to reach a judgement on a topic and be able to explain and justify this using carefully chosen and relevant examples. These are all skills that students are required...
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  • 17/12/21

    FOOTBALL SUCCESS

      To start off with, we would like to say thank you to our Gold sponsor RARUK Automation, our Silver sponsors Redrow Homes & Nexus Fostering and our Bronze sponsors Winkworth & Endoline Automation. Their support has been hugely appreciated and has had an immediate impact on the...
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