May 9, 2012 | In: Principal’s Message

We were delighted to have Lord MacGregor in the Academy on Friday. He spoke at length to our Sixth Form students and as we are coming to expect, he was very impressed with our students.

The excitement is building around the move into the new school, both in school and in the local community. Press reporters were very keen to visit and report on the new building on Friday.

Student Resources

Google Translate Google’s free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages. This translator supports many languages.
BBC Learning English Comprehensive materials for intermediate to advanced ESL learners from the BBC World Service.
Linguascope.com The Ultimate Platform to Experience Language Learning!
Headway Practise your English with interactive exercises, puzzles, and games.
Connexions: Direct Offers advice on education, careers, housing, money, health and relationships for 13-19 year olds in the UK.
Connexions: Jobs4U A searchable careers database provided by Connexions
Connexions: Help You Choose Norfolk’s 14–19 prospectus website and Common Application Process. It’s provided by Norfolk County Council Children’s Services for young people and their parents and carers.

Curriculum Blogs

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- Enterprise (1)
- Art (3)
- Design Technology (1)
- Drama (2)
- History (1)
- ICT (5)
- Music (11)
- Physical Education (14)
- PSHE (2)
- sports (34)

Academy Information

Virtual Learning Tools

Academy Email Outlook Live : Access you Academy email address
RealSmart Realsmart VLE
Sims Learning Gateway Access the SIMS Learning Gateway
Accelerated Reader Renaissance Learning – Accelerated Reader

Web Productivity Tools

Animoto.com Turn your photos and videos into pure amazing.
Bubbl.us Brainstorm online with bubbl.us. Easily create colorful mindmaps to print or share with others. Almost no learning curve.
Prezzi.com Create presentations easily with professional looking results.
Wordle Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently.

Teaching Resources

Periodic Table of Videos Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century – but this modern version has a short video about each one.
Free resources by teachers Free resources for teachers by teachers
English teaching resources Online secondary resources, lesson plans & schemes of work for teaching english
SEN Teacher Free teaching resources for special education.
Norfolk Schools Norfolk County Council’s website for School Staff.
TeacherNet The government standard for UK teachers and schools-related professions.

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The Power of the Green Screen.

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20 Tutorials to Create Your Own Flash Game

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