Academy News
All Saints’ Academy bucks the trend across Cheltenham in overall KS4 performance
All Saints’ Academy continues to make great progress, climbing up the recently published school performance tables for Progress 8 in Cheltenham. Progress 8 measures the overall student performance in GCSE nationally. Principal Dermot McNiffe puts this rapid progress down to “the high expectations that are set for all students at All Saints’ Academy. We have…
Cheltenham Literature Festival Visit
Student Report by Keenan Taylor On Friday 13th October, eleven Sixth Form students (including myself) visited the Cheltenham Literature to participate in a Journalism and Publishing workshop. We arrived promptly – nine-forty sharp – eager to see what the day would hold. We sat in a tent named ‘The Nook’, joined by several other schools, and…
Year 11 students continue to excel at All Saints’ Academy
All Saints’ Academy students achieve their best ever Maths and English results in the most challenging GCSE examinations ever. An outstanding 12% improvement at A*-C GCSE Mathematics heralded a significant amount of excellent grades at the higher level including several at the new maximum Grade 9. This puts a good number of All Saints’ students…
Another year of record breaking results for A-Level students
All Saints’ Academy produced another set of record breaking A-level results with a 100% of students gaining an A* to E pass. 74% of Sixth Form students achieved A* – E in 3 or more subjects, which is an improvement of 8% on 2016. Value added scores for A-level have significantly improved too, now putting the…
RAF Fairford Trip
In July 2017, student’s attended the exciting Design Technology trip to RAF Fairford to visit ‘The Royal International Air Tattoo’, also known as the world’s greatest air show. During the thrilling 4 hour flying display, students were able to see fast jets, giant transporters, historic aircraft and a breath taking synchronised display by the world…
Y13 student raises over £1000 for her Christian Mission in September
Beth Halford in Year 13 has been fundraising for her Christian Mission in September. She has a fundraising target of £1800. So far Beth has raised an amazing £1489.82! Thank you to everyone that has supported her so far. £825.82 was raised from ‘Creation’ the event at ASA on Sunday. Ticket sales, raffle and refreshments…
Leagues4you and The Joanna Brown Trust donates sports kit to Africa Mission Trip
On Thursday 22nd June our Africa Mission Trip received kind donations from Leagues4you and The Joanna Brown Trust. Netball bibs and shirts, footballs, rounders sets and lanyards were all given to the Africa Mission Team who will be leaving for their trip of a lifetime in July this year. Miss Morley said 'We are so pleased that…
Students win Pupil Choice Award at Go4Set challenge
Go4SET links teams of six pupils with employers and universities in a 10 week Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Project. On Friday the 5th 6 pupils spent the morning in GE Aviation in Bishops Cleeve working with their apprentices and touring the facilities on the secure site. This trip formed part of the final…
Coast to Coast – Africa Fundraising
A number of All Saints’ Academy staff are taking part in a gruelling Coast to Coast bike ride from Holyhead to Cardiff. The small team will be completing their 200 mile challenge over just 2 days. The team will be well lead by cycle enthusiast Mr Shergold with a support crew of Miss Wellington to…
National Careers Week at ASA
On 10th March we welcomed 85 visitors from a range of local and national employers to take part in our Careers Q & A event. Professionals and Apprentices ranging from Engineers, public services, financial services industry, recruitment specialists and charities visited the academy and engaged with students. Our guests were assigned to tutor groups where…
