Entries by Leonie

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Seasons Turn, a mosaic mural for MAS

During this term, a group of art students have been designing and making a mosaic mural to brighten up our playground. The project, run by Bow Arts and generously funded by Allen & Overy, enabled the students to work from a professional brief to create a beautiful piece of work with the help of artist […]

Prince’s Teaching Institute Mark awarded to Mulberry Academy Shoreditch’s history, Latin and science departments

Mulberry Academy Shoreditch is pleased to receive The Prince’s Teaching Institute Mark for 2015/16. The Prince’s Teaching Institute (PTI) launched the Schools Programme in 2007 to recognise and reward school departments that develop inspirational ideas and activities which enhance the teaching of Art, English, Geography, History, Latin, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Music and Science, regardless […]

“Float like a butterfly sting like a bee – his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”

Charlie Folorunsho held Year 10 spellbound as he performed excerpts from Mojisola Adebayos play, ‘Muhammad Ali and Me’. Muhammad Ali and Me is the critically acclaimed coming-of-age story of a young black girl growing up in foster care and her fantastical friendship with the legendary, Muhammad Ali. Charlie found time out of his busy schedule at the Albany theatre in New Cross to come to the academy to enthral the […]

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Publication of Provisional National GCSE results (October 2016)

Please see attached letter from the Department for Education and an update on the academy’s performance following the recent publication of provisional national GCSE results.  In the letter, Tim Coulson, Regional Schools Commissioner for East England and NE London, congratulated the academy on our provisional examination achievements this summer, particularly the broader demands of Progress […]

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New progress measures confirm quality teaching and impressive student progress at Bethnal Green Academy

Bethnal Green Academy students excelled in their GCSEs with an outstanding benchmark figure of 82% achieving A*-C grades including English and Maths. Demonstrating their academic rigour, 36% of students secured the English Baccalaureate qualification, beating the 2015 national average of 23%. The academy’s success of +0.83 in the new Progress 8* score is highly commendable […]

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MAS Question Time

On Wednesday 13th July, we saw our new Year 12s kick off their first lecture with their own version of Question Time, with Former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Sir Brendan Barber. At a time when media and political commentators lament the apathy of the Generation Z, 55 of our passionate, articulate […]