What a fantastic half term! To celebrate, we had our 2nd 'Proud' event on Thursday, celebrating the brilliant work of our year 7 and 8 students! Don't worry, we are working our way slowly through the year groups. Well done to all those that came along to show off!
#thengaway
What an incredible morning we have had at NGA. A huge well done and enormous congratulations to all our students -and their families- on record results! It's difficult to put into words just how proud of all of you we are! Amazing.
#recordbreakers
#ngapeople
#thengaway
#gcses2022
Congratulations Alex on winning the cake design competition for European Languages week. The winning design was picked and made for the winner to share with her form class.
What perfect weather for our Attendance Carnival 2023! 🎪
Thank you to Party’s R Us for supplying our inflatables. We’ve had a fantastic afternoon - lots of photos to follow! 🎡🎟️
Our
#York
trip have arrived safely and are having lots of fun! Today they’ve conquered
@YorkDungeon
, been for a walk around the Shambles, demolished a
@pizzahutuk
where they were treated as VIPPs and are looking forward to tonight’s Ghost Walk! 👻
#busyday
#schooltrip
Congratulations to all of our Year 11 students. Superb results and a significant increase from last year! Testament to their hard work and commitment. Good luck for the future.
Our first 'PROUD' event took place on Thursday, with y7 students invited to show off their work to the Principal, Deputy Principal, teachers and Governors too. We were very proud of the students, and those balloons too!
#balloonbonanza
#thengaway
#ngapeople
#ngacommunity
Well done Daisy who went for trials for U13 North Tyneside County and was successful in securing a place on the team, for the second year running! ⚽
She's even being assessed to become a Future England Lioness! Fingers crossed for Daisy! 🤞🦁
#Girlsfootball
#Lionesses
#England
A huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone that attended our biggest and best ever Open Evening! We had musical performances, science shenanigans, a packed theatre and impressive future NGA students!
#ngastudents
#ngacommunity
#createyourfuture
Yr 8 students delivered a presentation on how
@NU_Foundation
can be more sustainable and environmentally friendly to a panel of judges who work in renewable energy. They toured the Helix Energy Centre, discovering what Newcastle does to provide homes with power and hot water!
A group of Y8 students have been working on a ‘Dragons Den’ pitch for 6 weeks with the focus on 'How NUFC can make more money'. Their final pitch presentation took place today to the NUF Dragons at NUCASTLE and they WON with NUFC player bobble heads! Congratulations to all.
Congratulations to Mia who has won Homework of the Month for her amazing homework on the books 'The Mystery of Three Quarters' by Sophie Hannah and 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green. Her extra hard work and effort really paid off and the results were fantastic! Well done!
Some of Year 8 visited the
@NU_Foundation
this week!
They built self-driving cars in the STEM room and worked as a team to beat other NU Foundation Partner Schools in some team building challenges!
A great reward for their hard work and excellent behaviour this term 👏
We’re delighted to share the news that on January 1st 2018 Seaton Burn College became a member of the Gosforth Federated Academies Ltd. and has now changed its name to North Gosforth Academy.
Daisy Rutherford competed at the Year 7 regional cross country trial in sub zero temperature yesterday. Leading the race in parts, she did very well representing the school and North Tyneside! Well done Daisy! 🏃
#crosscountry
#running
This year a large number of students achieved higher grades in their exams versus their predicted grades. We've also seen an increase in the number of students gaining grades 9-5 in English and Maths compared to pre-pandemic results. Congratulations Class of 2023
#GCSEResultsDay
26 of our 100% attendees enjoyed a night at
@FalconsRugby
on Friday night. Students enjoyed a pre-match training session on the pitch, a game on the pitch at half time, before watching the Falcons beat Leicester Tigers
Our
#Christmas
#Concert
was last week!
Congratulations to all the students who performed, you were all fantastic and so talented! We're incredibly proud of you all and the brilliant show you put on. Thank you Mr Wilson and Mr Elliott for organising! 🎼
#school
#music
We were delighted to have Callum from the
@NU_Foundation
in school today to talk to our Year 8s and our Year 10s about future career prospects! 👨🏻🎓
#NGAfutures
#careers
Exceptionally proud of Brooke Forster (Year 11) who has been selected in the North East and Cumbria Centre of Excellence squad. Congratulations, Brooke!
Last term attendance award is going ahead today. Massive thank you to Party R Us for the inflatables to help us celebrate 100%. First up we have our year 7 and year 8 battling on the bungee run.
A huge well done to our performers from last nights showcase!
You did yourselves and the school very proud with some fantastic performances! We can’t wait for the Christmas Concert 🎶🎭
#performingarts
#schoolconcert
We are delighted to reward two year 7 students for their fantastic reading efforts over the last term. Eniola and Ester have read over 30 books between them since September.
Congratulations to all of our Year 11 students on your GSCE results this morning. We are extremely proud of what you have achieved, especially given the obvious disruptions and challenges the last couple of years have presented. Well done Class of 2023.
#GCSEResultsDay
Incredibly proud that the school has hit the headlines this week. A huge well done to Reece but also to everyone at the school and in our amazing community who donated!
#richvalues
#northgosforthacademy
#community
What an amazing year 7 Reading stars trip to Waterstones! We whisked our award winners off to Newcastle to relax in the cafe, browse the shelves and even bought them a book of their choice to read over the holidays- Merry Christmas!
#waterstonenewcastle
#readingstars
#richethos
The Christmas tree is up and it is next to our new book vending machine. Students will recieve tokens to use the machine as reward for going above and beyond in school
Excellent set of five a side game's against
@StudioWest_
Monday night. Lots of fun, learning and sportsmanship on show from both teams⚽️
Well Done Alex, Abigail, Jasmin, Rileigh, Lauren, Alicia, Holly, Naomi & Monique!
#theNGAway
We were thrilled to welcome our brilliant new year 7 to NGA today! For years 8-11 starting tomorrow, we can't wait to see you at the gate where we'll direct you to your tutors so we can make a sharp start!
#ngapeople
#anewyear
We were delighted to hear that a few of our amazing students built themselves a library over the Easter holidays! Reading is a huge focus here at NGA and we are so impressed with this!
#ngapeople
#thengaway
#readingatnga
#newcastlelibrary
‼️ Breaking News ‼️
There has been a MURDER in the Academy Library!
We need YOU to be the Detective! Visit the scene and look out for clues to help solve this dastardly crime over the coming weeks...🕵️🔍
#murderinthelibrary
#getintoreading
#murdermystery
Thank you so much to
@GrandGosPark
who hosted our Celebration of Achievement 2022 last night!
Congratulations to all our Winners and a massive thank you to the family and friends who joined in the celebrations ✨
Make sure you tag us in your photos!
#NGAPeople
💙
Livingston FC is pleased to announce the signing of highly rated youngster Harrison Clark from Chester-Le-Street United, having also been part of the Park View Academy of Sport.
The 18-year-old from Ashington will spend the 21/22 season on loan at Championship side
@ArbroathFC
.
Great effort and performance from this fabulous set of U14 girls at the North Tyneside Football CVL last night. Fantastic win against Kings and a battling effort against St Thomas More!
Winners for the Northumbria area FutureMe Enterprise Challenge 2019, in association with the Newcastle United Foundation, receiving their ASDAN certificates. FutureMe have now commissioned an artist and work has begun on bringing the students’ storyboard ideas to life.
Our library is looking very festive thanks to these Year 7 girls who gave up their time to decorate it.
Thank you girls, it looks brilliant!🎄
#Christmas
#christmastree
On Monday some of our Year 7 boys went to the
@NU_Foundation
building for a
#football
tournament on the rooftop pitch!
This was a
#rewards
trip for excellent behaviour, attitude to learning and attendance. The boys had a fantastic time and were impeccably behaved - well in lads!
Year 9 have been studying Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' this term, learning about the conventions of a Tragedy and picking up lots of new, useful vocabulary to help them when they study 'Macbeth' at GCSE next year!
#NGA
#englishvocabulary
#Industrious
#Curious
Look who’s come to visit us for Christmas! The North Gosforth Academy elf has come down from the North Pole to watch over all the children and report back to Santa - so everyone best be on their best behaviour!
#advent
#December
#christmas
#elfontheshelf
Huge congratulations to our Y11 boys who have made it to the Semi-Finals of the ESFA National Cup after beating Winterton Academy 3-2 in last nights Quarter-Final!
NGA are working with Period Poverty to support all girls in school with free sanitary products. Your child will receive a free packet from today. We are also holding assemblies to promote this initiative.
#NGAcommunity
#PeriodPoverty
#Importantissues
15 of our students who achieved 100% attendance enjoyed a trip to NUCASTLE yesterday. The group enjoyed a spin session, teambuilding games, an E-Sports session, followed by games of football and handball on the roof. Big thank you to Lee from
@NU_Foundation
!
Great effort from our Year 7 & 8 netballers at CVL playing against St Thomas More, John Spence and Longbenton. Looking forward to more games after Christmas!
MFL have made a wonderful display of poppies and the French equivalent called Bleuet for remembrance. They have been annotated with staff and students family members who were part of the world wars.
We had our final Proud event of the year today and it was the busiest and buzziest yet! Well done to everyone who came down to share their best work and achievements with us. We are so proud of you all!
#proud
#praiseatNGA
#NGApeople
#theNGAway
Year 7 enjoyed a talk from the Author Mark Ballabon who was in the Northeast promoting his new book, Home. This was a unique experience and students were given the opportunity to take part and ask questions. (1/2)
Fantastic to see everyone back at school this week. Students have been a credit to their community and their families! Remember, if you have PE on your timetable, come to school in your PE kit like those below.
We were thrilled to take the top 6 stamp earners in each year group for a VIP tour of St. James' Park yesterday. Students had an access all areas tour and were impeccably behaved. Special congratulations to Romy & Lewis who won a pair of tickets for tomorrow's game!
A huge WELL DONE to all of year 7 and 8 for participating in the Spanish Spelling Bee. Congratulations to the winning teams in round 1. The finals will be held next week to determine the overall y7 & 8 winners. Buena Suerte!!
Congratulations to our Murder in the Library winners!
We had three students who correctly worked out all the clues and figured out the dastardly Mr Ayres murdered Mr Graham in a crime against humanities! 😲
Well done, Samantha, Esme and Ella! 🕵️
#supersleuths
#borndetectives
Little Elf has packed their bags and gone back to the North Pole for Christmas. Before they left they said they had had a wonderful time at North Gosforth Academy and they were very impressed with the behaviour of our students who will all be on the NICE list this year - Yay! ❄️
Some of our Y7 & Y8 students completed a sponsored 5km run during enhancement for charities including
@CR_UK
and
@SBRFoundation
. We are very proud of our students who took on the responsibility for raising and collecting their own sponsorship.
We had a fantastic evening last night at our packed out Celebration of Achievement event! Well done to all our students who received an award, we are proud to celebrate your hard work and success!
Following this afternoon’s announcement by the Prime Minister, we will send a letter out to all parents on Thursday outlining detailed plans for independent study going forward. School is open for all tomorrow and Friday!
Today is our Career's Fair!
We have several North East businesses on site to talk to the students about opportunities, apprenticeships, employment and further education options.
We're so thankful to everyone who's come to see us and support our students creating their futures!
Sophie, Brandon and Thomas set up a cake sale for Red Nose Day as part of their enhancement group- Helping hands. They did a fantastic job and managed to raise £103.85. Thank you to all staff and students for your donations.
@comicrelief
We have been busy celebrating European Languages Day here at North Gosforth Academy with activities and competitions which will be running all week long.
9 of our students from Year 7 got the chance to go and play in a football tournament on the roof of the
@NU_Foundation
new building (NUCASTLE) for their excellent work and attitude in lessons. (1/2)
This week students in years 7, 8 & 9 Spanish have been designing their own Alebrijes.
These are spirit animals that are said to guide souls on their journey through the afterlife, we have been studying them as part of our celebrations! 🐉
#DayoftheDead
#DiaDeMuertos
The rain has brought a little visitor out of our nature reserve this morning! He has been returned safe and sound to splash about with his toady friends 🐸
What shall we name him?
On Friday some of our Year 7s decorated a tree which was entered into the St. Columbus Church Christmas Tree Festival in Wideopen!
The scrolls feature reading recommendations from the girls participating and the decorations are in our school colours! Great job girls🎄
#Christmas
Rehearsals are well under way for our Christmas Concert tonight! 🎼
A limited number of tickets are available to reserve by calling school reception on 0191 236 1700