If your child is entitled to a Free School Meal during term time we will be providing a £15 supermarket voucher during the half term period for your family. In order to arrange for this to be collected from school please email enquiries
@johnsmeatonacademy
.org.uk
One of our former Y11 pupil's, Amran N, who earlier this year was awarded Leeds Young Person of the Year 2022 was invited to meet King Charles III today as part of a special ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of
@Child_Leeds
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Our Year 7 students were given the opportunity to choose their own book to take home, from a list of 17 fantastic titles, as a part of
#BookBuzz
@Booktrust
. Our wonderful English Department & Librarian organised for their books to be returned to students as Christmas present.📚🎄
Congratulations to all our Year 11 students today. We are incredibly proud of you all. Today's results are the culmination of your talent, your dedication, and your resolve never to give up. We will miss you all.
💚Charlie’s Law💚
PLEASE sign and share!
We need as many signatures as possible.
We are petitioning for the government to make it a requirement of law that all bicycles be sold with working lights.
Congratulations James who is off to
@OfficialUoM
to study Physics. James adds, “I appreciate everything teachers have done for me over the past 7 years I have attended John Smeaton.”
#alevelresults2019
We are proud to be supporting
#CaptainTomMoore
and the
#NHS
by donating £796, £1 for each student at our school.
Should you wish to donate you can do so at
In February, Students & Staff raised an amazing £1001.10 for Martin House Hospice. Today Mr. Snape met with
@MartinHouseCH
to give the donation. Well done everybody and thank you for all your support.
Our staff have donated hand cream to NHS staff! Given out to doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, receptionists and even the matron! They were all incredibly happy and loved the smell. We've done only a little for their big fight.
#NHS
#donation
🌈🌈🌈
We are incredibly proud to hear that one of our alumni, William Neal, has received an offer from Oxford University to study Physics. Will has commented: "I think it would be good for other students at JSA to know that nothing is impossible if you never let go of your aspirations"
We are looking forward to seeing our wonderful year 11 students tomorrow for GCSE results day. Please come to school at your allocated time only.
#GCSEresults
#EducationWithCharacter
This incredible year 7 team! We are extremely proud tonight at Yarndale Rugby Club:
JSA 30 v 5 Horsforth
JSA 30 v 10 Benton Park
JSA 5 v 5 Ilkley Grammar School (over the moon)
We are excited to welcome all staff back to the academy on Monday 7th & 8th September for our INSET Days. All staff have a wellbeing parcel waiting for them on their personalised workstations.
Today we say goodbye to our fantastic Year 11 students 💙. We admire each and every one of them for their dedication and resilience over their last 5 years, let alone the last 12 months.
We’re looking forward to the End of Year celebration✨.
Good Luck Class of 2021🎓
Today is World Mental Health Awareness Day - here at JSA we are embracing the uplifting effects of music on mental health - we have an amazing playlist ready for students to enjoy today
#WorldMentalHealthDay18
#music
#IAMWHOLE
We cannot wait to greet our wonderful Afghan students this morning as they get ready for their first ever day at John Smeaton Academy. See you all soon 😀😀😀
Congratulations Lia! She Achieved an A in Psychology and two Distinction*s in Health and Social. She is going to the
@UniOfYork
to study Psychology.
#alevelresults2019
👏🏻THANK YOU!👏🏻
From all of the staff and students at John Smeaton Academy, a big thank you to all key workers out there. Together, we will all get through this. Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.
#clapforheroes
#clapforkeyworkers
#clapforNHS
At 16:40 today, we will be on BBC radio Leeds (
@BBCLeeds
) sharing what it means for our academy to be a
@SchsofSanctuary
& how one of our Y11 pupil’s support of our work in this area has resulted in him winning Leeds Young Person of the Year 2022 as part of
@Child_Leeds
! 🎙
So, after a tiring first day, full of joy, smiles and hard work, our Afghan children have headed home ready to return again on Monday. An amazing group of young people who clearly value education so much.
Today, we have been incredibly privileged to meet&greet our new Afghan students & their families.We cannot wait for you to start!Thank you to the translators who joined us too, especially those from
@Hillcrest_Leeds
and our two amazing students Amran&Kihan
The winning team!!!
#GoJSA
!
The students are a credit to the academy, the sportsman ship they have shown towards the other schools was amazing. We have some extremely talented students!
As a part of our
#LGBTHM22
celebrations, our annual bookish display is up in our Library. Students can browse and access lots of fantastic resources and books, as well as drop-in on our LGBTQ+ Pride Group on a Thursday lunch time.
@JustLikeUsUK
#LGBTHistoryMonth
A massive thank you to everyone at West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Bike Mill in Leeds for organising for over 50 students at JSA who cycle to school to have free helmets and bike lights. The students were so grateful for these donations.
@LeedsBikeMill
@LeedsNews
@emmaloisryan
And here they are! These wonderful children and their families have just enjoyed their first ever experience of John Smeaton Academy. We cannot wait for them to start! 😊
Looking forward to welcoming back our students on Wednesday 5th September. 8.20am for our new Year 7s and 12s and 10.35am for years 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13.
We are very excited for our wonderful students to receive their personalised text books per subjects and year with learning journeys for next academic year 📚📖
Thank you to our wonderful librarian, Miss Booth for baking this incredible
@WorldBookDayUK
cake for the staff of
@SmeatonAcademy
to enjoy on the 25th anniversary of
#WorldBookDay
! Miss Booth also came dressed in her wackiest WBD outfit to date - our students loved it! 📖
Mrs Griffiths addressing our amazing Year 11 families in our very first Year 11 Engage Evening. Thank you to everyone who attended, we hope that you got a lot out of the evening.
At 11.00am this morning, our school came together to honour members of the Armed Forces who gave their lives for their country. A poignant and immaculately observed 2 minute silence, followed The Last Post. Finally, a beautiful reading by Oakley in Year 11.
#RemembranceDay2021
On Friday 15th June, Josh Warrington will be visiting John Smeaton Academy to meet with our students to discuss his recent success in the Featherweight Championships.
He will be talking to students as part of the attendance rewards afternoon.
@J_Warrington
#champion
Gymnastics Club every Monday making excellent progress, all achieving their flicks on the second lesson! Thank you to Coach Poppy in year 9 for helping.
Massive thanks to all of the 30 organisations who supported our careers fair and to our students who were “the most engaged I’ve ever met at a school careers fair.”
@AheadP_ship
Dear Year 11 – As you will be aware, your prom has had to be cancelled owing to the on-going situation with Covid-19. We are pleased to confirm however that we have booked Friday 13th November 2020 as your new prom date. More details to follow.
Brilliant year 9 workshops today linking curriculum subjects to future careers. Thank you to the fantastic volunteers and facilitators who worked so well with our students.
#Careers
#FBF19
#EducationWithCharacter
Amazing awards evening at JSA tonight - congratulations to all students involved and thank you to parents and carers for making it such a wonderful event. Great work Y11 prom committee with the refreshments!
WOW! Thank you
@Booktrust
for our incredible
#SchoolLibraryPack
! We really do appreciate the amazing work of charities like BookTrust who support
#SchoolLibraries
with outstanding free books and resources. We cannot wait to get these in our students’ hands!
@JsaLibrary
📚
Our Principal, Ms Gill also attended the very exciting ceremony in support of Amran who had the absolute privilege and honour of meeting the King! 👑🇬🇧
An incredible moment that we were delighted to be a part of. 👑 Thank you
@Child_Leeds
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Each Friday we recognise pupils politeness, honest and hard work with the Headteacher ‘Thank You Reward’. Pupils pay that forward by saying thanks to those staff who’ve helped them on their journey.
WOW! A
@SmeatonAcademy
pupil has been shortlisted for
@Child_Leeds
Leeds Young Person of the Year 2022 Award and we could not be prouder! Congratulations, Amran! You can read more about why Amran has been shortlisted here: 🌟