On Tuesday 27th January, Mr Lawn and Mrs Artus attended the Jack Petchey Award Presentation evening, which was held at the Braintree Arts Theatre. The evening was well attended by schools from the local region, and we celebrated the success of six of our students, who received the Jack Petchey Winners’ Award of a boxed medallion for their various achievements. As usual, our students were great ambassadors for the school, looking proud to be AHA students and extremely smart in their uniform.

On the 14th January, Year 7 students at Alec Hunter Academy welcomed their Year 6 teachers and other primary colleagues to celebrate their achievements and progress since transition. With much excitement and pride, student ambassadors from each primary school acted as tour guides for their former teachers.  Student subject champions explained the work on display, showed off their books, demonstrated examples of practical work undertaken in Design & Technology and Art, performed short drama and musical pieces, and introduced new friends and teachers. 

Huge congratulations to Illiana Anderson 8N, Matthew Austin 8U and Jamahl Godward 7N who have been elected to the Young Essex Assembly. They will represent the views and interests of young people from the mid-Essex area and could be picked to join the UK’s Youth Parliament. They were elected alongside 72 others from across Essex after a three-month campaign with 19,000 votes cast.

We are delighted to invite you to our second evening of workshops, on Thursday 26th March.  The focus for the evening will be helping students prepare and cope with the pressure of exams.  Our Year 8 exams week commences on Monday 27th April when students will be completing end of year exams in many of their subjects.  The set up will replicate GCSE exam conditions, so as to help students become accustomed to exam conditions and learn vital revision skills.

The workshops aim to offer guidance on how parents can best support students with their revision and coping with stress at home, and the proposed plan for the evening is as follows:

Forthcoming opportunity for students to visit the Rhineland open to all of Year 8 and 9 and for German GCSE students in Year 10

The trip to the Rhineland in Germany is leaves on Friday 26th June and returns Monday 29th June 2015.

This trip run successfully in 2013 and we would like to offer this opportunity to our students again this year. The aim of the trip is to improve their German even further by allowing them to experience German culture.

Over the past year, the school has been working towards the Recognition of Quality Award (RoQA) in Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance, which is a nationally accredited quality standard for this important area of education. 

This application was led by Clare Pipe, Work Related Learning Coordinator, and after a lot of hard work on her part and a rigorous evaluation process, the award was achieved on 14th November 2014.