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  • PlanBEE Manchester Higher Apprenticeship Programme

    Published 21/02/22

    Are you in Year 11 and interested in a career in design and construction? Have you though about an apprenticeship?

    PlanBEE Manchester is a new and unique higher apprenticeship programme in Design, Construction and Management where you’ll earn and learn with some of the city’s leading employers.

    Developed by Manchester City Council, Manchester Life, Ryder Architecture, and Gateshead College, the programme prepares you for a career in in building design and construction with a strong emphasis on digital skills and collaborative working.

    You’ll earn while you learn on schemes including the Our Town Hall project to restore, repair and partially refurbish Manchester Town Hall, Manchester Life’s developments in Ancoats and The Factory arts venue.

    During the 2 year programme, you’ll rotate around different employers and be taught multiple disciplines within the sector, including architecture, structural and building services engineering and management and project and cost management on various schemes.

    You will complete a Higher Apprenticeship programme in Design, Construction and Management, underpinned by HNC/D, providing a pathway to progression at a wide range of universities.

    You’ll spend one day a week studying and developing your knowledge in building design and performance through a combination of lectures, tutorials, field work and site visits. There are five areas of study with each module ending in an integrated team based project:

    • Leadership
    • Economics
    • Design
    • Technology
    • Production

    Find out more: www.gateshead.ac.uk/planbee/Manchester

    Or download their information booklet below:

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  • Year 11 Revision Sessions : February Half-term

    Published 14/02/22

    During our February half-term we will be holding History and English Literature revision sessions open to all students in Year 11.

    This is a great opportunity to revise, in-person with our teachers from these faculties.

    On Monday 21 February Mr Greenhalgh and Mr Jones will be delivering a History workshop between 9am and 11am

    On Tuesday 22 February Mr Hood and Mrs Fagan will be delivering an English Literature workshop between 10am-12noon

    Please encourage your child to attend.

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  • Train to Teach with Co-op Academies

    Published 11/02/22

    Andy Gibson- Head of Early Career Framework with Initial Teacher Training

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  • Year 7 Chinese New Year Dragon Challenge

    Published 09/02/22

    Yesterday we held our Year 7 assembly and the judging of their MFL Chinese New Year Dragon Challenge.

    What an amazing showcase of their creativity, commitment and resilience and the culmination of weeks of hard work from all Form Groups.

    In honour of Chinese New Year our entire Year 7 cohort were tasked with creating their very own Chinese dragon using a minimum of ten cardboard boxes. Their brief stated they must be prepared to explain how they created and decorated their dragon and also use some Chinese symbols.

    In front of a strict judging panel, including Head of Academy Mrs Ali and our guest Mr Rob Neal from Swire Chinese Language Centre Manchester, each of our Form Groups stepped up to present their wonderfully elaborate and colourful creations.

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  • Girls 2 Women Project with Manchester United Foundation

    Published 09/02/22

    Earlier this week, as part of their Girls 2 Women Project with Manchester United Foundation, a cohort of our Year 7 girls completed the ‘Poncho Task’.

    This consisted of students creating a poncho from flip chart paper, then moving round the room and writing on the back of other student’s ponchos the things they appreciated about that person.

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