Wimbledon Trip

At the start of July, TFA students were lucky enough to travel to London for a visit with the PE department. Mr Forrest shared some of the highlights and low points of the two-day trip…
Highlights:
  • All of the students being into Oasis and playing them on repeat all the way to Wimbledon.
  • The wall to wall sunshine throughout the trip and the fact that our students were very mature using sun cream and the free water throughout.
  • Watching world-class players on Court 2 including Marin Cilic and Venus Williams.
  • The girls making it back to the hotel in time to watch Love Island on the first night.
  • Getting a tour of the Chelsea FC stadium including a visit to the home changing rooms and the manager’s dugout.
Low points:
  • The 4am alarm call on Monday morning before the 5am meet at school to catch the coach.
  • The amount of sweets, chocolate and fast food eaten on a PE trip!
  • A special mention to Tommy Hill, whose mobile phone interrupted the silence of Court 2 at Wimbledon with his alarm going off to the tune of ‘Football’s Coming Home’…

Overall, a trip to remember where our students were a credit to us.

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Teacher Training

Although the Lead School of a Teaching School Alliance in our own right, we are proud to be an original partner of GORSE SCITT (formerly Leeds Teaching School Alliance). As a partner, we support a dynamic route into teaching, providing high quality Initial Teacher Training around Leeds. New entrants to the teaching profession are able to train directly with the SCITT in schools within The GORSE Academies Trust and also in partner schools in the local area.

The trust has an outstanding record of recruiting trainees from its programme to newly qualified teaching positions within its schools and graduates from the SCITT are in high demand in schools outside of the Alliance.

As an Academy we are delighted to have on our staff many former trainees from the SCITT and its legacy School Direct work. This now includes a significant number of colleagues with responsibilities within the academy, especially in Maths, Science, History and Geography. The expert teachers we have employed from the SCITT include Mathematics, Science, MFL, PE, English, Geography, Art, Design Technology and History. The teaching of these colleagues has always been developed to a point of early excellence, allowing them and us to make a real positive difference in the lives and progress of our pupils.

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