Year 6 Parents/Carers: Register for our Open Evening
Choosing the right secondary school for your child is a BIG decision, and one that you will give much thought to.
Our annual Open Evening will take place on Thursday 3 October between 3.30pm and 6.30pm providing an opportunity for prospective families to find out more about The Bulwell Academy, and why it is the right choice for your child.
During the Open Evening, there will be a key briefing by the Head of School, Mr Irons (there are a choice of two times, 3.30pm or 5pm). You will also have the opportunity to explore our excellent facilities, meet teachers and students and find out about our curriculum offer. To find out more, read the letter below. To register your interest, please complete the online form below.
We look forward to welcoming you and your child on Thursday 3 October.
If you unable to attend the Open Evening, but would still like a tour of the school, please contact Mrs Tracey Sadler, PA to the Senior Leadership Team, to arrange a visit: enquiries@bulwellacademy.org.uk
You can also book onto one of our two Open Mornings on Thursday 10 October and Thursday 17 October: Open Mornings ⋆ Bulwell Academy
We are very excited to be taking part in this year’s Nottingham Vs Derby Readathon, where we will find out which of the city’s students can read for the most minutes in one week!
What is a Readathon?
Throughout the week starting 30 September, students will be encouraged to keep a log of all of the minutes they spend reading each day (using Track My Read, which they can find on their Student Portal homepage or by visiting trackmyread.org/school/the-bulwell-academy-588614. Students will receive a special Readathon bookmark and sponsor sheet, and will be invited to take part in all kinds of reading activities throughout the week! Scroll down the page to sponsor a child online (no cash needed)!
What are the Readathon activities?
Reading Relay: Big Bulwell Book
We are proud to be running a Reading Relay, where our Big Bulwell Book will be travelling from classroom to classroom. Students who receive the Big Bulwell Book will then spend around 20 minutes reading before the Book moves on to another classroom. This way, someone will be reading at The Bulwell Academy for every minute of every school day during the Readathon week!
Most excitingly, the Big Bulwell Book will also be making its way to some of our fantastic local primary schools! Student volunteers from The Bulwell Academy will be reading to primary school students, sharing their love of books and helping to inspire their younger peers. We understand some of our local primaries are also taking part in the Readathon, meaning we’ll all be adding our reading minutes to Nottingham’s total!
Livestream Event with local author, Steven Camden
We are also taking part in a livestream author event featuring Nottingham’s own Steven Camden, who visited The Bulwell Academy last term for an incredible creative writing workshop. Year 8 and 9 students at the top of the Sparx Reader leaderboard have been invited to this wonderful opportunity to listen to and send questions to a published local author. This event has been organised by our friends at BookSparks part of Priority Literacy
Readathon Fundraiser
With this Readathon we are raising funds for the charity Read For Good, who bring books and story-tellers into children’s hospitals to bring joy to young people in difficult times. For more information on Read For Good, please see their website: readforgood.org
The Bulwell Academy will also receive book vouchers worth 20% of the total donations to make our school library even more useful and welcoming for our students, and if we raise more than £50, two lucky students will each receive book vouchers of their own. For our last Readathon all the way back in 2014, we raised £176, so we hope to beat that amount this time.
We would like to make clear that the Readathon fundraising is completely optional. If you cannot donate for any reason, that’s okay! Please encourage your child to read anyway, as their reading minutes will still count towards our total and may help us to beat Derby (which is very important for all of the Forest fans out there). Anything counts, whether they’re reading novels or comics or magazines, or even listening to audiobooks.
Donate by buying a First Story book, written by Bulwell students!
For the duration of the Readathon, we will donate £2.50 to Read For Good for every purchase of a First Story book through the Arbor School Shop. First Story books are written by our students in partnership with a professional author, Paula Rawsthorne, with their best work throughout the year being professionally edited and published. They are available for £5 through your Arbor Parent Account.
Come along to our drop-in session on Monday 7 October to find out how you can support your child with their home learning with our multiple Homework IT platforms.
If you would like your child to receive the flu vaccine in school on Friday 11 October 2024, please click the blue button below to complete the NHS online consent form. If you would like to decline the vaccine for your child, please complete the online form to provide ‘NO CONSENT’. The deadline for completing the form is 29 September 2024.
The School Aged Immunisation Service comes into the Academy throughout the year to provide vaccinations to our students. You can find out more about the different vaccinations offered by the by clicking on the blue button below.
Click on the link below to find out about activities taking place this week related to all things Attendance—part of a citywide campaign to raise attendance across Nottingham schools.
