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Thank you National Literacy Trust for these fabulous books! Our group of Year 9 students, who delivered their amazing presentations at Staffordshire University, will be delighted to choose one. The Words For Your Future programme helped them to think carefully about their academic progress and the choices available to them over the next few years. They discovered the wide range of courses offered by our local universities and worked with student ambassadors to deliver confident, clear presentations, explaining their hopes and challenges for the future. Well done everyone!
The PE department took a group of 28 Y9's and Y10's to the Derbyshire Falcons v Northants Steelbacks T20 Cricket game yesterday evening.
It was a great experience for them and they conducted themselves really well all evening and were a credit to the Academy.
A big thank you to Mr.Downie for organising the trip.
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We are on the hunt for Discovery Literacy Champions! Could that be you? With Stoke Reads, we are looking to sign up Literacy Champions by September!
Literacy Champions are people who want to help improve literacy in their community. They could be a **student, teacher, parent, or anyone passionate about making a difference **in **our **local area.
Literacy Champions reach out to their local community, encouraging and inspiring them to engage with literacy though one to one meetings, group meetings, social media and other digital methods. You don’t need to be a Literacy wizard to do this anNational Literacy Trust Trust provide training to get you up and running.
If you, or someone you know, is interested, let Mrs Belt or Mrs Adams in the Discovery Library know and we can arrange the training to make you one of our Literacy Champions!
Watch the video on the link below to find out more from the successful Literacy Champions Project in Bradford!
Bradford Literacy Champions | National Literacy Trust
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As part of our Bradford Stories campaign, we’re looking for people across Bradford to become Literacy Champions online and in their local communities.
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This week is Refugee Week and the theme is Healing. Manjeet Mann's Costa Award winning novel, The Crossing, tells Natalie and Sammy's stories of how their known worlds fall apart; Natalie in Dover, Sammy in Eritrea. A twist of fate brings them together. We have copies of the novel in the Discovery Library, so grab your copy now!
You can listen to a clip, read by Manjeet, on the link below:
Lightbulb moments: Manjeet Mann on writing The Crossing
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The author of The Crossing, a novel about two young people on opposite ends of the refugee crisis, on how channel-swimmers from England and Eritrea inspired her book, and how writing can be an act of ...
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On Sunday, many of us will be celebrating our fathers; some of us will be celebrating those who have been like a father to us; some of us will be recognising significant people who have been role models and made an impact on their lives. Some of us may be sad, alone and find the day particularly difficult.
However you spend this weekend, you may find time to pause and reflect on some lessons we learn from one of the famous fathers in literature: Atticus Finch from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
1: Protect the innocent; the meaning behind that famous quote, "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
2: Don't judge a book by it's cover: with our world more divided than ever, Atticus’s words remind us to reach out to others, to try and see the world from their perspective before passing judgement.
3: Courage is not letting the odds stop you: true bravery is facing an impossible challenge and having the determination to keep going because you know it’s the right thing to do. It’s having lost all hope and carrying on anyway. It’s being afraid and not letting that fear stop you.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/oct/6-life-lessons-from-to-kill-a-mockingbird.html
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Looking for some reading inspiration? Why not pop over to the Stoke Reads Virtual Library? There you will find lots of authors including David Baddiel, Ben Fogel, Liz Pichon, Michael Rosen and Sophie Dahl, all waiting to tell you more about their books and reading extracts in video clips. Enjoy!
wordsforlife.org.uk/virtual-school-library/
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Alpha Academies Trust is located in Stoke-on-Trent and consists of two Secondary Schools, three Primary Schools and a Central Office team. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Finance Officer to work in our busy Central team. Applications are invited from candidates who have excellent finance, administrative and interpersonal skills, with strong attention to detail and the dedication and enthusiasm to be part of a thoroughly committed team.
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Finance Officer - 456753 Academy: The Alpha Academies Trust Role Type: Operational Job Expiry Date: 30/06/2022 Address: Discovery Drive, Stoke-on-Trent,ST2 0GA Job Expiry Time: 09:00am Contract Type: ...
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June is Pride Month in the UK with events happening all across the country. If you can't join in person, why not take time to read and discover authors you may not have encountered before?
Our recommended read is Every Day by David Levithan, available from the Discovery Library! Read the Blurb below:
Photo: www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/pride-month-2022/
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Please can you help us to re-stock our library with beautiful books? National Book Tokens are offering tokens worth £1000 to build up the choice and range of books we have for our students to read for pleasure. With use, our books become very well read and it would be fabulous to have brand new, unthumbed, fresh books to offer our students. Please use the link to support us in this amazing competition which students, parents, friends and staff can use to help us win!
WIN £1,000/€1,000 to help your school rebuild their library
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It's time to get serious about reading for pleasure, and start rebuilding our schools’ libraries. We’re giving five schools £1,000/€1,000 of National Book Tokens plus membership to the School L...
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A new month and a new half term must mean a new book cover colour: Orange for "flaming June!" Check out our display of orange book covers in the Discovery library today for a "hot" read!
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Before half term, we were fortunate to be able to join the Hay Literary Festival, via the virtual links, and celebrate the love of reading with a range of activities linked to the different author events. On the Friday, we were delighted to listen to Yvette Fielding, Sophie McKenzie and the fabulous Jacqueline Wilson. Here are some more images:
Have a great half term to all our Students.
From all the Teachers and staff at the Discovery Academy.
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How exciting! A letter from the House of Commons congratulating us and recognising our success in winning the Regional Heats of the National Reading Champions' Quiz. Thank you Jo Gideon MP; your letter made our students proud of their achievement!
Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group currently have a large number of fantastic apprenticeship opportunities for students looking to start an apprenticeship.
If there are any individuals that would be interested in any of the roles, please forward their CVs to [apprenticeships@nscg.ac.uk](mailto:apprenticeships@nscg.ac.uk) with the [Expression of Interest](catrust-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/files_alphaacademiestrust_co_uk/Ec1Gsu7cdrJNmUtBNysQkz4B...).
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What a glorious start we had to our "virtual" #hayfestival! We joined Maz Evans, Roma Agrawal and Piers Torbay via the live links from Hay. They inspired us to look at genres, characters and plots! Take a look at some of the amazing photos from Thursday!
Today we are "live linking" to listen to Anthony Horowitz and the amazing Jacqueline Wilson - watch out for more photos later today!
**Congratulations** to Jasmine, Alex, Beth and Jasmine for being chosen for the Participation Award in recognition of their enthusiasm, effort and support of the other teams at the National Reading Champions' Quiz finals in London. They may not have won 1st prize, but we are so proud of how they represented The Discovery Academy and West Midlands Region. Well done Team Discovery!
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Yesterday the Alpha Academies Trust held the 'British Science Week Awards Ceremony' at the Discovery Academy.
A huge congratulations to all the students who took part with their incredible entries and a big thank you to parents for supporting and attending the event.
It's the big day and we have arrived in London! The Grand Final of the National Reading Champions' Quiz is today!
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Last night, the Year 7 football team played Ormiston Meridian.
Despite being 2-0 at half time, the lads never gave up. They showed amazing ambition and positivity to come back and win the game 4-3.
A special mention to the man of the match Logan, who scored all 4 goals!
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On Thursday and Friday, our Nurture groups will be joining 1000s of students across the country for the Hay Literary Festival 2022. Joining the event virtually, from the classroom, we are holding our very own Hay "Fringe" Festival (with bunting!) and are looking forward to listening to a wide range of different authors including Jacqueline Wilson, Yvette Fielding, Sophie Mackenzie and many others. It's going to be a great celebration of reading for pleasure!
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They are on their way to the grand finals in London! Wishing our team the best of luck today! We are thinking of you as you represent The Discovery Academy and the West Midlands region and will be cheering you on the whole time #NRCQuiz2022 National Literacy Trust
The Senior Leadership Team and Governors are looking for three Teaching and Learning Assistants to join our driven, committed and enthusiastic team. We are looking for candidates who are motivated team players and who are able to both fully engage children in their learning, thus improving outcomes and successes for them, and become integral to all aspects of academy life.
Learning & Teaching Assistants – 765432
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Learning & Teaching Assistants - 765432 Academy: Eaton Park Role Type: Teaching Support Job Expiry Date: 08/06/2022 Address: Arbourfield Drive, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 9PF Job Expiry Time: 09:00am Contrac...
