The Totteridge Academy
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The Totteridge Academy is a mixed secondary school in Barnet, North London
Barnet, London
Joined August 2016
‘Hope, love and opportunity: the privilege of working with children.’. Watch students, staff and parents discuss life at The Totteridge Academy 💜💜💜
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🎉Secondary School of the Year 2023🎉. In 2016, we set ourselves the goal of becoming the most improved school in London. (1/3)
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We are delighted with our Ofsted report! . Outstanding for leadership and students’ behaviour, personal development and welfare: . “a harmonious and peaceful learning environment”. “a rich programme in place to support pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development”
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Super proud to have been shortlisted for Secondary School of the Year in the national @tes awards! We are one of only eight schools across the country to be nominated 💪. Thank you to our students, staff, and families for making TTA such a wonderful place 🙌🤩🙌
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Best results we’ve ever had! 86% 4+ in English and 81% 4+ (with 40% 7+) in maths. Congratulations Year 11 🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉
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We are thrilled to be in the top 50 schools in the country (and number 1 in Barnet!) for our GCSE progress score 🎉💪🏾👏🏼
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Delighted to announce our Progress 8 score, which puts us in the top 10% in the UK. Our students make over half a grade more progress than the national average in every subject they take at GCSE. Beyond proud of our students and staff 👌🙌💪
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Thank you @steveadcock81 @UnitedLearning for the nomination. I’m sure Mr Fairbairn will put it in an assembly🙄. He would like to challenge all TTA students (and @leon_wilson20) ⚽️
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Last week was the most challenging we have faced as a community. We are so glad we got to show our appreciation to the amazing Year 11s. Sending love to all of our TTA family 💜
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🎉🎉🎉.
And last, but by no means least, we have @totteridgeacad who have won the Secondary School of the Year award 👏 . You and your school can be very proud of your many transformational achievements! #TESSA #TesAwards
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67%! Best GCSE results in the school's history. A tremendous jump of 27% from last year 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉
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We have two new tutor groups for our 2020 Year 7s, named after inspiring women. Thank you to Mrs Palmer for these phenomenal portraits 👩🎨🎨👏 . 💜 ANGELOU 💜 AUSTEN 💜 CURIE 💜 FRANK 💜 JOHNSON 💜 PANKHURST 💜 YOUSAFZAI 💜
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What. A. Day. 💜💜💜. We are so proud of our brilliant Year 11s👏🙌💪. An astounding 81% of pupils achieved 4+ in English and Maths. 68% secured 5+ and, most impressively, 42% of our students gained 7+ in both! 🎉🎉🎉
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So proud of our amazing Year 11s who have worked phenomenally hard over the last 5 years. They have shown resilience and excellence throughout and it was a joy to see them and share their success today 💜💜💜. Returning and new students can enrol by emailing sixthform@tta.org.uk
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What. A. Day. We are so proud of our amazing students 🤩🤩🤩. Another phenomenal year of results with over a third of all grades at 7-9!. Congratulations on all your hard work 🎉🎉🎉
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HUGE thank you to @come_and_grow and the incredible TTA community who planted 600 trees this weekend 🌳🌳🌳 #nationaltreeweek 🙌🙏👏
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WE MADE IT. Over £160,000 and counting! Our outdoor classroom will be built 👩🏾🌾🐑🥕🧘🏿♂️🐓🌍🥬🐝🐣🧘🏼♀️👨🏻🌾 Thank you to everyone that donated, including @MayorofLondon, and @come_and_grow @georgemlamb for your vision and passion 👏🙌💪
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🎉 A Level Results Day 🎉. Congratulations to our wonderful students - we are so proud of how hard you have worked over the last 7 years! Officially handing you over to university now…
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Congratulations to Mr Fairbairn who is a @TeachingAwards Silver Award winner for Secondary Headteacher of the Year! It is testament to the phenomenal work of students, staff, and families at TTA every day 🙌💜🙌 #ThankATeacherDay
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Excited to welcome some Year 10s back tomorrow - we have missed you!
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Thank you @Young_Barnet for coordinating support to families over half term: Thank you @FareShareUK for helping us to provide food boxes during lockdown. Thank you @MarcusRashford for supporting all those in need across the country. #endchildfoodpoverty
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@tes Thank you to everyone who has made this possible. It is a privilege to be part of such a wonderful community. To our brilliant students: “YES TTA! WE SMASHED IT TODAY!”👊💜👊.
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After the dedication, hard work, and passion of our students, staff and families to build the incredible learning environment that is TTA, we are bursting with pride to have been recognised as National Secondary School of the Year at last night’s @tes awards. (2/3).
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Why aren’t we scared?.Because we’re prepared!.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
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We are delighted with our huge jump in the league tables and a Progress 8 score of +0.34. Congratulations to students and staff!
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Delighted to celebrate A Level results with our wonderful students today! They achieved A*-B grades in over half of all entries and are now off to some fantastic universities. We will miss them hugely and wish them all the best for their futures! 🎓🙌
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So proud of our maths team, finalists in the #TesAwards10 👨🏫➕👩🏫➕👨🏫➕👩🏫➕👨🏫➕👩🏫➕👨🏫➕👩🏫=👌 (we will bring back the 🏆 next year!)
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Congratulations to our amazing students for achieving such phenomenal A Level results: 47% A-A* and 75% A*-B. They are now off to some wonderful universities and we wish them all the very best for their futures!🎓🙌🎉
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So proud of Mr Knott for winning a Silver Award in The Teacher of the Year category 👨🏼🏫💪 - overall winner announced on 21st October 🤞 @TeachingAwards
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Proud and humbled to have contributed to this national initiative. Fantastic work by all the teachers involved 👏👩🏽🏫👏👨🏼🏫👏👩🏻🏫👏👨🏿🏫👏.
Hi world 👋 We've been created by 40 teachers. Want to know more about who we are and how we can support teachers? Our Principal @matthewhood and Head of English @ramender10 tell you more. #LearnWithOak
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THANK YOU @dgjones for your amazing sessions on the history of knights with @FouldsSchool @Underhillsch and Whitings Hill ⚔️🛡🐎
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👩🏫📚We are BACK 🏫📝. It was wonderful to see Year 7 & 12 for their induction and all other year groups for special assemblies before normal lessons start this week 💪
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So proud of our wonderful students who were on Gardeners’ World last night. We are privileged to work with the incredible @wearegrow___ on the farm 👩🏽🌾🙌🌳. Full episode is here: (TTA from 50 minutes)
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He’s up! Welcome to Neo, the first of our TTA chicks 🐣🐣😍🐣🐣
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WHAT. A. DAY. 💜. Incredible results for our phenomenal students. 88% achieving 4+ in both English and Maths, with 41% of all grades 7+. 🎉🙌🎉👏🎉💪🎉
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🥁 Roll up! Roll up! The first GROW produce will be on sale at TTA this Thursday (27th May) 4-6pm 🗓 We have mixed salad bags 🥗 radishes ❤️ kale 💚 and 🌶 plants for you to grow at home 👩🌾 All @wearegrow___ produce is grown using organic principals 🐣🌈🤝🌏
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Remember being taught in person? We can’t wait to have our students back soon 🤞🤞🤞
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Filmed at TTA! 🎥🎥🎥 It was a pleasure to have you @jlandpartners #ourassembliesarebetter.
If you can’t wait for our TV debut tonight, here is the full version of our new ad in all its glory! @waitrose 🌩🚀🎤 #BohemianRhapsody. Find out more:
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A touch of frost on the farm this weekend ❄️❄️❄️
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“We have more in common than that which divides us” - proud to have raised over £800 for the @JoCoxFoundation on our Cultural Day last week ❤️👳🏾♀️👨🏻👵🏽🧕🏼👩🏿🦱❤️
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We are delighted to be shortlisted for maths team of the year! ➕➖✖️➗
Huge congrats to the following nominees: Andy Done for @MasefieldCP, Celina Cox for Mill Ford School, Nicola Whiston for @OATChadwick, @ParklandsLeeds, @NLCS1850, @totteridgeacad, Nic Anderson for @WGS1512 and @wyndham_academy #tesawards10 (sponsored by @edfenergy)
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WHAT. A. NIGHT. Thank you to everyone who came to our packed Open Evening on Thursday and to our students for being such amazing hosts 🏫👨👧👩🏽🏫
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Mr Knott takes home a silver award for Teacher of the Year! We are so lucky to have him at TTA @UnitedLearning @tomdknott #ClassroomHeroes 🎉🎉🎉
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👨🏾🌾👩🏻🌾👨🏼🌾 Humbled by all the children, parents and members of the local community who volunteered at the farm on Wednesday. Thank you 🙌. The world can be a beautiful place 🌍💚
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Thank you @ChrisSmalling 🙌🙌🙌 Our @FBeyondBorders students loved meeting you ✌️⚽️💜.
Big thanks to @ChrisSmalling for coming down to Brixton today and meeting with our participants from @totteridgeacad. The group worked on the role body language and vocabulary plays in enabling you to be your best self in media situations. 🔋🙌
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Thank you to the Mayor of Barnet @AlizonMoore for visiting us on such a fantastic GCSE Results Day! Our students were delighted to share their success with you 🎓
Congratulations to all the students who collected their #GCSE results today. You've worked extremely hard and we wish you all the success for the future!. Among those picking up their results today were pupils from @totteridgeacad in Barnet:
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Year 11 and 13 are on 🔥 🔥🔥. 110 student at Friday Night School, 75 on the revision weekend! Hard work pays off 📚💪📝🙌. Don’t forget to: count your 🍅, recharge your 🔋, don’t 🤥 to yourself.
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Letter to all parents and carers today. Thank you for your phenomenal support during this challenging and unprecedented time 💜
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The Quad is coming along! Thank you to Turner Prize winning architects @Assemblestudio and @HOSlandscapes for helping our students design and create their own playground 👷🏽♀️🚜👷🏻♂️
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We are open as normal today and looking forward to the staff v student snowball fight at lunch! Travel safe and wrap up warm ❄️🧤🧣⛄️.
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So proud of the work our students have done on modern masculinity with @FBeyondBorders 👏👏👏 This episode on the @guardian features our boys talking about what it means to be a man 🗣
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Congratulations Ms Stephenson! 🥇.
Lia Stephenson wins the women's triple jump for England with a best leap of 12.45m.
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Good luck Mr Knott! Representing TTA at the 2018 National Teaching Awards 👏👨🏼🏫👏 #ClassroomHeroes #PearsonTeachingAwards @TeachingAwards
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Welcome to the team! We are very excited too 🔬🧬🧪👨🏻🏫.
Absolutely delighted to be joining @totteridgeacad as head of science in September. Will be a massive challenge and always tough leaving well-loved colleagues but very excited :).
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We are proud to have raised £1135.25 for @MindCharity who provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem 💙
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It’s National Offer Day!🤞. We are delighted to be oversubscribed again and are looking forward to meeting our new Year 7s in September 💜
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Thank you for all the support and encouragement in response to this article. We are really proud of our huge jump in results and the hard work of students and staff every day. As always, we will continue to support the young people and families in our local community.
What happens if an old school everyone had written off, out-performs a shiny new £50m build? @miss_mcinerney takes a look.
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Good luck to our Vice Principal, Ms Aitken, who is running the London Marathon today! 🏃🏻♀️💪👏 #LondonMarathon19
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The BIG day has arrived! Join us for our Open Evening at 5:30-8:30pm. Mr Fairbairn’s talk will be at 6:30pm. There are also tours available throughout October 🏫👨👧👩🏽🏫
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We have an exciting opportunity for a local young person (18-24) to work as a ‘community grower’ with @wearegrow___ on a paid internship 👩🏾🌾🌱👨🏻🌾 no experience required - link to apply 🔗
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Thank you to our amazing student buddies who made our Chinese visitors feel so welcome all week. Return trip? 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
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🐟Fish & Chips Friday🍟. Beautiful breaded hake from @brixhamseafish with chips, salad and tartare sauce 😋
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Very proud of our Head of Music @jamesmcevoyste1 winning this award 👏👏👏.
The music teacher making a 'transformative' impact at @totteridgeacad.
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We raised over £1,000 for @savechildrenuk for #ChristmasJumperDay 🤶🏾⛄️🎅🏽🎄 Thank you to children, staff and parents 🙌🙌🙌
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Proud to lay wreaths during Remembrance Services at St. John the Baptist Church and Barnet Lane War Memorial. #WeRemember those who have sacrificed their lives to defend our freedom and democracy. #LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday
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Eid Mubarak to all our students and families celebrating today! May this day bring you happiness, love and peace 🕌☪️.
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📸Evening of Excellence📸 Congratulations to all the students! Thank you to special guests @CoatesSally @JonColes01 and to @dgjones for an 👌👌👌 keynote speech
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We are delighted to work with @ChefsinSchools who interviewed our Head Chef about serving delicious lunches under challenging circumstances. HUGE thank you to Jake 👏 Lucie 👏 Ophelia 👏 Leigh 👏 Sally 👏 and Rajae 👏 for feeding us such wonderful food every day. 😋🍝😋🥦😋🍞😋
Running a school kitchen and serving hot lunches is challenging at the moment. We asked Head Chef Jake from @totteridgeacad how they've adapted and managed to keep hot, freshly made #schoolfood coming.
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We had lots of great activities over the Easter break! Thank you to @wearegrow___ and @Young_Barnet for the fantastic forest school, @LegendsAcad and @PPCricketUK for the excellent basketball and cricket camps, and @Barwoodfood for the delicious lunches 🍎🔥🏀🐓🏏🧑🏽🌾🥘😋
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🥊The boxing ring is up!🥊Looking forward to working with former student and professional world champion @DarrenBarker82 🛎🛎🛎 float like a 🦋, sting like a 🐝
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Looking forward to seeing Year 11 students tomorrow morning from 9am to collect their GCSE exam results👩🏻🎓🕘👨🏾🎓.
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💜GCSE Results Day 2021💜. We are so proud of these wonderful students and all their hard work over the last five years 🙌🙌🙌. We look forward to welcoming so many of you to the Sixth Form in September!
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Free School Meal vouchers will continue over the summer holiday. Thank you for campaigning @MarcusRashford 🙌.
I don’t even know what to say. Just look at what we can do when we come together, THIS is England in 2020.
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Looking forward to seeing our Year 11s at 9:45am tomorrow for their GCSE awarded grades and Sixth Form enrolment. We have missed you!💜
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Election Day at TTA! Thank you to our amazing team at the polling station and all students and staff who exercised their democratic right to vote 🗳️
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The latest members of our TTA family! Happy Easter 🐣🐣🐣
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📚📚📚World Book Day📚📚📚THANK YOU to our guest author @rickedwards1 for an inspiring assembly and such creative workshops! #worldbookday2019
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