News from Pix Brook Academy

The summer term is upon us and pupils at PBA have been taking advantage of the usual range of activities and events associated with warmer weather and lighter evenings at school. The PE team continue to surpass themselves offering a host of matches against other schools in Cricket, Rounders and athletics. Pupils continue to throw themselves into these events with vigour and youthful exuberance and it is one of the endearing elements of working in schools to see such excitement in the faces of children when they have enjoyed a competition. For PBA it is about the involvement and we try to make sure that those pupils who attend the training sessions are able to be involved in the competitions.

It goes without saying that the school made the most of the Jubilee celebrations. Pupils were able to learn about the Queen and her extraordinary history. It is one of the more difficult things to try to get young people to understand what a moment in history this is and the provision of a street party tea for lunch, non-uniform and bunting were all included to try to mark the moment. It is unlikely that that a monarch will achieve a platinum jubilee in our lifetimes and as such to try to capture this moment is worth the effort. As part of our attempt to acknowledge this significant moment in history, as well as create something memorable for the school we took the opportunity to plant an oak tree with seating to mark the occasion. The Reverend Bill Britt from St Mary’s church (a governor at the school) took time from his schedule to say a few words and Craig Smith, COO at BEST joined the school in helping to “open” the tree. It sits behind the school and over the next 70 years will hopefully grow and become part of the history of the school. Photos were taken and these will also be a record for posterity.

We now look to the final few weeks of the term. Plans are in place to enable new pupils to visit the school, Step-up day will provide all pupils with an experience of next year and arrangements for sports day are in hand. Amongst all the excitement lessons continue to be delivered and pupils continue to work hard. The pupils deserve great credit for showing such resilience and effort in coping with a full year at school. For young people who had not completed a full year at school for a couple of years this is quite something. As always our pupils energy and enthusiasm is a joy to behold and makes all at PBA look forward to next year. (September will be here before you know it!) It remains for me to wish you an enjoyable summer and I look forward to seeing you in September. Stephen Adams - Principle.

The oak tree is planted to remember the Platinum Jubilee