Welcome to our new enewsletter

Happy new year and welcome to the first edition of the new St Matthew Academy  email newsletter.

This will arrive in your inbox once every fortnight, and will contain lots of news, photos and links to keep you up to date with everything that is happening at St Matthew Academy.

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Students at the cutting edge of technology

Students from years 8 to 11 have been working with our corporate partner Thomson Reuters on a cutting edge IT project, which was filmed by the BBC. Read more

Students star in charity music video

St Matthew Academy students appear on a music video in aid of the WarChild charity. Read more

The Challenge: 12 teammates, 3 challenges, 1 unbeatable experience

Students from year 11 are being challenged to take up The Challenge – an exciting opportunity to stretch themselves physically, mentally, emotionally and socially, in the summer after their GCSEs. Find out more

We're off to see the dinosaurs

A group of 16 year 4 students went off to the Natural History Museum this week to stimulate their literacy. Read more

Staff news

We would like to welcome the following staff who started this term:

Ms Rikki Lee Briscoe – Science admin support
Ms Sarah Coen – AEN teacher
Mr Jose Martin-Hinojal – Spanish subject leader
Ms Franca Garcia – Spanish/French teacher
Ms Genna Greenidge – Literacy/English teacher
Ms Helena Green - New role as LSA
Ms Anna Gordon – LSA
Ms Rebecca Jones – Evening receptionist
Mrs Aysegul Karakas – Maths teacher

Find out about the Art faculty

Find out about the work of the Art faculty and meet Ms Smith the dance teacher. Read more

This year's musical

This year we are mounting the much-loved high school musical Grease. Find out more

The school council

The school council was set up to be the voice of students in school, so that students can play their part in raising issues that can contribute to improving the school. The first school council meeting took place at the end of last term. Read the report

Fixtures programme

The PE department arranges an extensive programme of fixtures with other schools for both primary and secondary students in sports from football and rugby to netball and athletics. 

The next fixture takes place on Friday 27 January at 2.15, when year 7 boys and girls will be taking on local teams at a football tournament at Aske's.