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Students have completed some fabulous work on their experimental projects in Year 10! ⁦#ambition

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On a very cold Wednesday (19th November), students from across our Academy headed to Sherwood Pines to compete in the District cross country qualifier against other schools across Mansfield.

Students represented the Academy excellently, showing great ambition and resilience in a very competitive and cold conditions. The top 12 students from each district would qualify to compete in the district team at the County Championship, which will be held on Saturday 31st January 2026 at Workshop College.

9 of our students successfully finished within the top 12 and have secured places on the district team, to compete at the County Championships.

What a fantastic achievement – we are so proud of you all! A special mention to Henri W, Harry B, Myanie W and Connie W who all finished in the top 3! Congratulation to all who took part and good luck to those students who have qualified.

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As shared last week, this week saw the launch of Rise to Revise: 8 weeks one goal! for Year 11.

To launch our 'Revision Strategies' teaching in lesson time, the maths department have shared how best to use Question Level Analysis documents  (QLA) that students will receive post mocks. Please click on the image to view a summary of how they can best use them in maths and ideas of how to use them in other subjects.

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Kitchen Update

Upon further investigation, the remedial works being looked into this week are not going to provide a safe enough, long-term solution to our roof and ceiling issues. Greenwood Academies Trust have agreed to fund a new ceiling which will provide us with a long term solution. Sadly, this does mean we need to keep the kitchen closed for the duration of these works, estimated at 2 weeks.

During this time we will be providing a reduced service. Hot pasta, pizza and panini's will be added to the sandwich selection and provided during the lunch time service. There wont be any snack options available at breakfast club or break time whilst these works are undertaken. Packed lunches for those who prefer are advised. Our water fountains will continue to be available for refillable bottles throughout the day.

Phone Lines – Update

We are aware of the current issue preventing callers from leaving voice messages when contacting the academy reception desk. This has been reported to our phone provider, who are working on a resolution. We have also requested improvements to the automated options, including a message encouraging parents/carers to contact us via email.

Please note, we only have two staff members on reception. During busy periods, they manage access gates, visitors, pupil sign-ins, and phone calls simultaneously. Emailing us at office@bruntsacademy.org remains the quickest and most reliable way to reach us and receive a timely response. Thank you for your understanding as we continue to work with our provider to resolve this issue.

Trust Assurance Visit

This week, we welcomed Educational Directors from GAT to review behaviour, attendance, and inclusion. The headline feedback came from Mr Stevens, a Trust Director and Ofsted HMI who visited Brunts in 2022. After meeting pupils and staff and reviewing our graduated response and wider professional engagement, he described our school as:

“Completely transformed – a place with positivity and warmth running through its core.”

From the outset, we have focused on culture - not just what we do, but how we do it. Hearing how strongly this culture is now embedded gives me great confidence that our improvement journey will continue to go from strength to strength. Thank you to our parents and carers for your ongoing support. Together, we will deliver on our ambition to make Brunts the school of choice for our community.

Have a great weekend,
Mr Fisher
Executive Principal

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Year 13 are busy applying for university! Alex "honked the horn of opportunity" today when he sent his application off to study Psychology at Lincoln University. #ambition

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Adrian honked the "horn of opportunity" this week - he has applied to study Curating and Art History @UniOfYork.

#Ambition

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Two Brunts pupils, Rex H and Tyler P were both mascots at the Ollie Betteridge testimonial match in Nottingham last night.

Both got to be part of teams with amazing players, present and past, from Nottingham Panthers and team GB, and both even got to play part of the match with them.

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Our Rewards Shop is now open every break for students to buy items using their reward points!

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It's almost here! Our production of 'Grease' will be on stage in the PDC from 16th-18th December and tickets are now available to purchase. Please click on the link below for details:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/brunts-academy

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A week of painting and brushwork. Year 8 and 9 are exploring watercolour and acrylic while year 10 are experimenting with oils. #proud

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A week of painting and brushwork. Year 8 and 9 are exploring watercolour and acrylic while year 10 are experimenting with oils. #proud

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We have now launched Revise to Rise, a whole-school push to give every student the tools, confidence, and strategies they need to succeed. This is about building momentum to ensure students are plugging those gaps highlighted by the previous round of mocks and ultimately improving in their in their next mocks.

Each week, different subjects will spotlight a revision strategy in lessons as follows:

§  Week 3 - Getting the most out of Question level analysis

§  Week 4 - "Chunking", Timetabling of revision

§  Week 5 - The Power of retrieval

§  Week 6 - Quick recall - Mind maps

§  Week 7 - Memory Mastery - Flash cards

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In addition, attached is a Exam Support booklet. This booklet offers hints and tips on how to be successful during the exam season, along with a page for every subject, highlighting the content to revise. The subject specific pages also signposts resources that will support students revision.

Thank you for you continued support in our journey to ensure our students to achieve the best they can.

Kind regards,

Mr J Robinson

Raising Standards Lead

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Dear Parents and Carers,

This week marks 8 weeks until the next round of Year 11 mock exams - and this is our moment to make a real difference.

Over the coming weeks, we’re launching Revise to Rise, a whole-school push to give every student the tools, confidence, and strategies they need to succeed. This is about building momentum to ensure students are plugging those gaps highlighted by the previous round of mocks and ultimately improving in their in their next mocks.

Each week, different subjects will spotlight a revision strategy in lessons as follows:

§  Week 3 - Getting the most out of Question level analysis

§  Week 4 - "Chunking", Timetabling of revision

§  Week 5 - The Power of retrieval

§  Week 6 - Quick recall - Mind maps

§  Week 7 - Memory Mastery - Flash cards

In addition, attached is a Exam Support booklet. This booklet offers hints and tips on how to be successful during the exam season, along with a page for every subject, highlighting the content to revise. The subject specific pages also signposts resources that will support students revision.

Thank you for you continued support in our journey to ensure our students to achieve the best they can.

Kind regards,

Mr J Robinson

Raising Standards Lead

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Please click on the image to view information about our Year 7 Settling In Evening on Thursday, 4th December.

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Congratulation to Myanie who won the BDL - Notts Derbyshire summer development league junior category (age 14-17) in a series of 5 mile XC and trail races.

Furthermore, she has also been involved in the road relay team that went to nationals came 13th out of 80 national qualifying teams, which is a great result against tough competition.

Finally, she also ran at North Mids regionals this weekend and came 6th running 4K XC. Massive congratulations Myanie!

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Thank you to University College London (UCL) who came in to talk to our Year 11 students about starting their HE journey. #ambition

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Thank you Samra (Year 7) for making this fantastic poster to support our anti bullying week! #proud

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Please click on the image to view the letter to parents/carers of Year 11 students regarding our end-of-term rewards trip.

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Please click on the image to view information about the Year 9 Parents/Carers Evening on Thursday, 11th December.

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Arbor App Messaging
We have received feedback from some parents/carers that they are not receiving in-App messages through Arbor. Rest assured that we are working with Arbor to try and understand why this is happening. As a fail safe measure, and to ensure parents/carers do not miss any communication, all letters we send will go into our weekly Padlet and onto our website. Thank you for your patience.

Parent Forum – Get Involved
A reminder about your opportunity to join our 'Parent Forum'. If you’d like to be involved, please complete the form here: Parent/Carer Forum – Fill in form

Wishing you all a great weekend,

Mr Fisher

Executive Principal

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We’re keen to hear from parents and carers who would like to be part of our Parent/Carer Forum at Brunts Academy.These forums provide a valuable opportunity for academy leaders to share upcoming changes, gather feedback, and discuss improvement priorities. Your insights and suggestions play a vital role in helping us shape the best possible experience for our pupils. The forum will meet four times throughout the academic year, with sessions held at Brunts Academy. Refreshments will be provided, and we hope to create a welcoming and collaborative environment. If you’re interested in joining, please complete the short form below. Once we’ve gathered expressions of interest, you’ll receive a personal invitation to our first meeting via email.Thank you, as always, for your continued support.Mr C FisherExecutive Principal

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Please click on the image to view information regarding this week's food practical sessions.

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Mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer – we’re taking them all on.

Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, challenging the status quo, shaking up men’s health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men.

Meet our Movember sixth form and staff taking part in this years Movember - wish them luck, we will be voting for the best "Tash" at the end of the month! Movember

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Please click on the image to view the letter to parents/carers of Year 11 students regarding our end-of-term rewards trip.

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We are delighted to have retained the national Quality in Careers Standard - Gold using the Career Mark approach provided by Complete Careers! #ambition

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Well done Jackson in Year 9, who secured a place on England Men's U15's Emerging Talent Camp, St George's Park, Burton upon Trent.

He attended over the half term and shared a couple of pictures with us! #ambition

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Some brilliant Chicken Fajita and Homemade Wrap dishes from our Year 9 food students over the last two weeks. Well done!

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Thank you to all our families who have signed up to the Arbor app. As we are nearing 100% sign-up, we will soon begin to implement some of the app's features. This will build our connection with parents/carers and strengthen communication. We have developed an area of our website designed to provide easy to follow guides that will help you to navigate various features that we will be implementing soon. It can also be used as a self-help platform if you have any queries. Parents/carers can access this area of our website here: The Brunts Academy - Arbor

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Our Year 12 students had a session delivered by Sheffield Hallam University about academic pressure this week.

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Year 11 Lunchtime Intervention Timetable - Updated

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Year 11 Lunchtime Intervention Timetable - Updated

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Please click on the image to view updated information about the Year 11 Interventions in place to help our students during lunch breaks.

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Our Creative Media Production students have been diving into the world of print media to spark inspiration for their own product designs. From bold layouts to subtle colour palettes, they've been analysing every detail - fonts, imagery and composition.

It’s been amazing to see their creativity flourish as they share their thoughts and opinions on what works, what doesn’t, and how they plan to adapt what they found for their own work.

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League Leaders this week:

7-5 and 7-9 96.7% Mrs Westmoreland and Mr Golding 🙂

8-9 98.6% Mr Sales 🙂

9-1 9-8 100% Mr Spiers, Mrs Mutimer 💯 Different gravy

10-9 98% Miss Hynes 🙂

11-5 97.5% Mrs Shiggins 🙂

12-2 100% 💯Mr Davison Different gravy

13-2 98.4%  Mr Barratt 🙂

#AttendanceIsEveryone

#AmbitiousAttendance

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Year 11 After School Intervention Timetable

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Year 11 After School Intervention Timetable

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Please click on the image to view information about the Year 11 Interventions in place to help our students after school.

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Please click on the image to view our latest Careers Newsletter, packed with information for all students and parents regarding future ambitions and the next steps.

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Please click on the image to view this half-term's edition of The Griffin, written by students for students.

It's been a busy half-term and our reporters have been following what's happening around school and in the wider community!

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Please click on the image to access our latest safeguarding Newsletter for parents at the end of Half Term 1.

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Timetable info: 24th November - 28th November WEEK 1

4th December: Year 7 Settling In Evening

4th December: Year 11 Report Home

5th December: INSET day (Academy CLOSED to all students)

11th December: Year 9 Parents' Evening

15th-19th December: Year 11 Reward Trips TBA

16th-18th December: School Production of 'Grease'

16th December: Culture Day

19th December: Students break up for Christmas holiday at 12.30pm

5th January: All students return to the Academy

15th January: Year 11 and 13 Parents' Evening

Don't forget the full calendar is on our academy website which you can subscribe to and link with your own.

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Due to last year's popularity, the Library Advent Challenge is back for 2025!

All students are welcome to enter the competition, which runs daily until 19th December (with bonus prize draws on Fridays).

Simply visit the Library, find the advent calendar goodie bags and answer the book-themed quiz question attached. Questions will cover books students may have read in primary school, at home, in English classes, adapted into films, or the most popular books in our Library - so there are chances for everyone to win!

There will be a prize draw every day at 1.50pm, with winners receiving the goodie bag and its surprise contents. Students must have a book registered on their Library account and no overdue books to enter.

Get borrowing - and bagging the daily prize!

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NEC School and College Leavers' Festival

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NEC School and College Leavers' Festival

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Please click on the image or the link below to view information about the National School and College Leaver festival on 25th November:

The National School & College Leaver Festival | NEC

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Over the last two weeks, your child will have been reminded of how to access KayScience for their Science homework. All year groups are set new Science homework every week on a Monday on KayScience.

If your child is still having issues accessing KayScience please ask them to come and see Miss Dickinson in Lab 2 as soon as possible. If your child struggles to find time to complete their homework at home, they can also come along to Lab 13 on Wednesday lunchtime to Mr Davison at the KayScience homework club to complete it.

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Please click on the image to view information about an Emotion Coaching session - specifically for families of children who are adopted, in kinship care and/or were previously in care.

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GCSEpod is now active for KS4 Geography students. This on line platform will help students learn, retain and recall information needed to achieve their GCSE goals. To access GCSEpod for Geography:

1. Go to www.gcsepod.com

2. Click login as student

3. Click sign in with Office 365

4. Click sign in with Office 365 again

5. Use your school email and password to sign in

6. Click Geography

7. Find the topic you want to revise

8. Enjoy 🙂

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Please click on the image for information on how to access GCSEpod for History.

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