Our Peer Mentors, along with Mrs Ellenden and Mrs Sandhu, attended a ceremony on 21st March, where they received two awards from Sunderland City Council for the work of the Academy in preventing and tackling Bullying and promoting E-Safety. The first award was in recognition of the contribution of the Academy, and in particular the peer mentors, who hosted and supported the delivery of the North of Sunderland Locality Anti – Bullying Conferences. The conferences were well attended by pupils...

On Thursday, 13th February, we held our Monkwearmouth Academy Final of “Search for a Star, 2014”. This annual contest provides opportunities for all of our students to display their various talents. The event was confidently compered by Jamie Clark and Cindy Dwirusman; and the well-drilled backstage crew members were Matthew Woodley and James Colley. The judges ( Ms. Foster, Mrs. O’Leary and Mr. Freeman) had a very difficult job but eventually chose Charlotte Carolan as the winner with Tegyn Smyth...

On Tuesday 11th February 39 university students who are in their final year of a dance degree at University of Sunderland came into Monkwearmouth to hold a dance workshop and perform their final performance piece to 35 of our students. The first hour involved 3 of the university students teaching our dancers a section of their performance piece which was based around the concept of Space and life in the solar system. This was a difficult piece of contemporary dance...

As this term draws to a close and we approach the Christmas break, it is a fitting point in time to write to you and provide a brief update. This has been an historic period in the life of of the school and its supporters; we have recently celebrated 50 years on the present site with two years of exceptional GCSE results. Things only got better for the school community when inspectors from Ofsted visited us in October and officially...

True to tradition, we hosted our annual Christmas Lunch for local Senior Citizens on the 18th of December – to support this event we’ve had tremendous response from local supermarkets Morrisons, Sainsburys and Tesco both in Sunderland and South Shields as well as donations from both staff and parents. Thank you for all your contributions and help in making this yet another success for Monkwearmouth Academy!

On Tuesday the 17th of December we held our annual Christmas Concert with a range of musical and dramatic performances including classic Christmas hits, carols, choir, panto and more. Photographs inside…