We would like provide you with updates on our Careers Programme and Experiences. (May 2022 Edition)

We would like provide you with updates on our Careers Programme and Experiences. (April 2022 Edition)

We would like provide you with updates on our Careers Programme and Experiences. (March 2022 Edition)

We would like provide you with updates on our Careers Programme and Experiences. (February 2022 Edition)

Investing in Futures 2022 : Work Experience Programme

HEY! Volunteering is on the lookout for new volunteers to help support expansion into the wider region.

We would like provide you with updates on our Careers Programme and Experiences.

HETA Open Days will give you the opportunity to learn more about the HETA Engineering Apprenticeship programme and the specialisms they offer.

A fantastic night with really good parental engagement and attendance, there was henna tattooing, decorating cookies, making rangoli patterns with sand and traditional Hindu food.

This morning the group completed a word games activity, each had six throws of the ball to hit the letters on the wall, the letters hit were the written on the board and the students had to make as many words as possible from the jumble of letters.

I have attached a photo of my Social Skills Intervention group and their attempt at building a spaghetti and marshmallows tower this morning.

From Monday 8th November we will be running a FREE breakfast club through The National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP) which is funded by the Department for Education and delivered by Family Action to support schools in England to provide children with a healthy breakfast at the start of the school day.

We have had a fantastic evening tonight with our special guests Zoolab.

Our KS3 students had a brilliant day turning trash into treasure.

From Monday 27th September students will have the chance complete some of their practice booklet or some quality reading time whilst enjoying a tasty breakfast. Full menu and prices can be found by scanning the barcode.

This is "Kevin Mincher Interview" by Sirius Academy North on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Pledge Challenge 67 requires you to take part in British Science Week We would like you to send us photos of your experiments.

Pledge Challenge 6 requires you to help raise awareness of Fairtrade. Use the grid to choose a challenge, you can complete more than one.

Our World Book Day will be held remotely this year.

Our parents evenings this year will use a platform called School Cloud.

Pledge Challenge 5 requires you to become a fashion designer. Using any inspiration you can find, you need to create a facemask.

Our pledge challenge this week is to see how many birds you can spot.

Our pledge challenge this week requires your culinary skills! we would like you to create a meal based on the Eatwell guide.

For pledge challenge number 2 we would like you to create a lay flat portrait using the Curriculum Principle colours.

Fantastic No Limits learning from our students with their Art Attack project work.

We are starting our pledge challenge again this week.

On Monday we are starting the PiXL rewards initiative for this half term. Some fantastic prizes #NoLimits #SAN #Community

Very proud of how our staff and students have adapted to remote learning.

ere is a reminder of the great student and staff Community we have at Sirius Academy North.

Here is the final advent challenge. Lots of fantastic photos of you all!

Today is The Voice final, all students in lesson 1 watched the video and voted today.

Todays competition is all about Broadening Horizons.

Today's challenge is to complete a Cultural Capital Quiz.

Day 9 challenge incorporates two of our Curriculum Principles, Community and Broadening Horizons.

Day 8 is all about the students meeting the Respect Principle. Zero detention non completion.

Todays challenge is to have 100% attendance within your teams. All COVID related attendance issues will be taken into account.

Day 6 is all about saying Thank You. The idea is that students have the opportunity to thank a teacher of their choice.

A number of Christmas Elves will be wandering around the Academy ready to reward students for meeting any of the Curriculum Principles. The chocolate coin is for the student to eat and the golden coin is for the student to hand to their lesson 1 teacher.

Today's challenge focuses on our Broadening Horizons Principle.

Today's challenge focuses on our Support Principle.

Our Y11 12 days of revision challenge is now on day 4! Make sure you have watched the videos and solved the riddle.

Today's challenge focuses on our Respect Principle.

We have an advent challenge every day for our SAN Christmas advent competition.

Please see the latest COVID-19 Attendance Guidance.

We would like to encourage some community spirit and fun across the Trust by holding a Christmas card competition for all students.

Anti Bullying Week 2020 - Odd Socks

It is Anti Bullying week this week and we can't wait to see all of our staff and students in odd socks on Monday 16th November.

As a Community we wanted to remind staff, students and parents how we are all in this together to support one another 'The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow'

The Trust have strongly advised that staff and students in school should wear face coverings when not in the classroom.

GCSE, AS, A Levels and VQs 2020: How it works.

Headstart have to put together a short summary of key services who can support Children and Young Peoples emotional health and wellbeing during the current situation and to clarify which services are still available and the formats they are delivering in.

Friday 8th May marked 75 years since the end of World War II in Europe. On thei day, in 1945, years of carnage and destruction had come to an end and millions of people took to the streets to celebrate peace.

Some fantastic poems have been sent to us and Tweeted. We hope you enjoyed all of your poetry writing.

Some excellent acts of kidness from staff and students this week.

xcellent staying active photos and videos from our staff and students with some great entries to our third week pledge competition.

We have been working hard to provide work packs for home learning support so that you can build on your great knowledge and skills.

Excellent creative ideas from our staff and students with some great entries to our second week pledge competition.

We do our jobs to make a difference. But in uncertain and difficult times like these, we can pull together to make a massive difference for so many people affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Fantastic effort from our staff and students with some great entries to our first week pledge competition. We certainly have some budding chefs in the making.

Starting from today we have a weekly challenge for our Y6.

Starting from today we have a weekly challenge for our students.

On Monday 23 March 2020 the school will be closed to all pupils with the exception of those whose parents have contacted us that are eligible to continue to send their children in to be cared for by our staff.

As today is the last schedule day for Year 12 and 13 students, we want to offer the following guidance:

Academy Principle Award Winners for this week.

I would like to provide reassurance that we are taking all precautionary measures in safeguarding pupils at Sirius Academy North to avoid possible infection of the Covid-19 virus.

World Book Day 2020 and a first for Sirius North - staff dress up! It was great to see and hear so many students asking questions about which characters staff were/what books they were from and having discussions about the books that they liked.

Well done to the below students who have taken home the first principle awards.

Our Year 9 football team hit the road, hoping Storm Ciara wouldn't erupt and that we could secure all three points!

AMSP (advanced maths support programme) ran a problem solving workshop called the dragon quiz with 10M this morning, students worked well together competing to answer maths questions to gain more puzzles and create the longest dragon.

Megija, Caitlin & Hollie represented the academy this afternoon at the Constellation Trust Choir’s performance at the ICC in Birmingham.

10 Year 10 pupils were invited on an advance maths day at hull university, the day included several workshops.

Today saw the travelling computing museum, The Code Show, come into the Academy.

15 expert learners were selected as part of our random prize draw for having 100% attendance and punctuality.

Last term Y8 were looking at the landmarks in Hull. We arranged to visit the Deep one of Hull's biggest Landmarks.

On Thursday we had viking FM in the academy to meet with the students that have got 100% attendance.

The past couple of days have been eventful for Sirius Academy North. We began the week with our year 11 interviews, whereby, various employers dedicated their time to interview our students to help them experience what it means to go through the employment process.

On Tuesday we held an odd sock day to support the anti bullying week.

Art / Textiles Work based on Remembrance has been created in Kiera Birkinshaw and Rebecca Mills KS3 Art and Textiles lessons.

This week is anti bullying week. We are observing an odd sock day!

14 year 9 female pupils attended The National Stem Centre to take part in an Engineering Extravaganza where they took part in four workshops; designing, building and costing a skyscraper, landing a mars rover, building a rocket car and evaluating materials for use in daily life.

By attending school every day and on time in November, you will automatically get entered into a prize draw.

Year 8 SAN Rugby success & Year 7 football result

Year 11 Geography students were out of the Academy today to collect data on the impacts of tourism in Helmsley.

Gabi is one of our top students, who is also completing the Race for Life for her Duke of Edinburgh award.

The Combined Cadet Force returned into camp yesterday afternoon after Sunday night out in the field.

Gabi Surdyk has been appointed the young Mayor of Hull and will be attending many of the city events to deliver speeches and opening festivals.

The cadets of Sirius CCF were blessed with a weekend of fine weather for their Field Weekend, which saw 13 of the contingent training in Strensall, York.

The Defence School of Transport at Leconfield held a special event during the half term as a reward to the best cadets from the RLC cap-badged Cadet Expansion Plan units.

The Sirius Academy North Year 9 boys rugby team played in their first of the three Yorkshire League matches and came out victorious with a convincing win over Airdale Academy, Castleford by 64 points to 0.

The presentation for the 'Young Artists Of the year' competition was this evening and here are our results.

Yes! Its that time again!

The boys had a great day and received a well-deserved 3rd place in the Finals!

This week, 7 of our students have taken their drum exam at the Albermarle Music Centre.

The Yr 8 and Yr 9 football teams travelled over to Kelvin Hall this week for the semi-final of the Hull Schools Cup.

Yesterday Mr. McNiff and I had the pleasure of taking six students from the School's Wargaming club to compete in the Warhammer National Schools Semi-finals in Nottingham.

On Friday 9th March the academy's hosted it's annual Y6 Maths and English G&T Challenge for pupils in our local Primary Schools.

Tonight, our public speaking team (yes, we have a public speaking team) consisting of Year 9 students Finnan West, Jess Tuck and Mason Webster, defied odds Leicester City style and scooped the local Youth Speaks 1st prize and £400 for the academy after delivering a powerful speech on how ‘everyone is an artist’.

A huge thank you to all staff and students that contributed to or participated in our Christmas Market. We raised a brilliant £438.41 for the charity ‘Children with Cancer UK’.

Sirius has got Talent was a massive success at lunchtime Wednesday 15th December 2017 and the students have only been rehearsing since last Tuesday.

Last night myself and Miss Mead took the year 8 girls football team to St Mary’s to take part in their 7 aside football competition.

Please congratulate our spelling bee winner KENNEDY COATES if you see her around this afternoon. Well done Kennedy!

This week our most dependable cadets visited Middleton Barracks at Calvert Lane and received a warm welcome from local detachment Royal Logistic Corps.

Recently we took 120 Y10 pupils to see 'A Christmas Carol' at Hull Truck Theatre.

On Wednesday 15th November, 15 of our students travelled to The Royal Albert Hall in London, to perform alongside other secondary schools in Hull and other ensembles from areas around the country as part of the Music For Youth Proms.

On Thursday 16th November, eight Y9 students travelled to Craven Park to take part in an enterprise event as part of Global Enterprise Week. The students took part in a series of tasks challenging their team-working and creativity skills.

Meeting for German Christmas Market Visit, Monday 13th November 2017, 6pm

Rachael Dixon won best sculptor in hull with her ceramic vase "Sunken Treasure".

Year 7 and 8 students were given the homework task to create a 3D model on anything they have studied in their history lessons during this academic year.

Last Friday, Miss Mulligan and some Year 8 students had the opportunity to participate in a Beatboxing and DJing workshop that was held at the Albemarle Music Centre.

After a tough half term and an English Literature exam on the morning, on Friday 26th May, twenty eight Year 11s headed to Caythorpe Court, Lincolnshire to embark on an action packed revision and activity weekend with PGL.

On Thursday 18th May, 36 Key Stage 3 (from Y7, 8 and 9) Geography students and 4 members of staff embarked on an exciting Geographical adventure to Burgers Zoo, Arnhem in the Netherlands where they were to visit different Ecological Biomes of the world, including Savannah, Rainforest, Desert and Marine.

On Monday 8th May, The Royal Institute of Science delivered a science show for our year 7 pupils.

On Thursday 4th May, Sirius Academy North became a rainforest…

Chief Executive of the Careers and Enterprise Company Visits the Academy to test out Greenpower Racing Cars

On Wednesday 15th March, 23 students from Y8 at Sirius West and Sirius North travelled together on a Gifted and Talented trip, to Helmsley in North Yorkshire.

On Friday 3rd March, ten ‘Gifted and Talented’ Y7 pupils were invited to take part in the Institute of Civil Engineers Competition, held at Sirius Academy West.

Debate Club: Last week Debate Club played the game Werewolves, a game of deception, argument and persuasion.

To celebrate World Book Day, Sirius Academy North was joined by the children's author Jonathan Meres.

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of taking students from our Wargaming / Modelling Club to participate in the regional qualifiers for the National Games Workshop School Alliance Competition.

Debate Club takes place every Thursday, after school, in the library. Last night, the students were tasked with doing a 'Balloon Debate' - a number of fictional profiles for people were provided and the scenario was that everyone was in a hot air balloon that was plummeting because it was over-filled.

On Sat 11th February, 11 Year 11 students and Mr Sullivan and Miss Blanchard, braved the elements to travel across the city to our sister school Sirius West.

Yesterday in Geography two Yr 8 groups took part in the World Trade Game! We live in an unfair world which is divided into rich and poor.

The night before a bottom of the table clash eleven Young Reporters made their way to the training ground of Hull City AFC.

Tuesday 8th November 2016 saw us take part in the second week of our Young Reporter programme.

Tuesday 15th November was our third week of our Young Reporters programme and this week was a new experience for not only the students but also Mrs.

On Thursday 17th November 2016, GEW Hull week excelled itself by completing the FIRST collaborative secondary school Mannequin challenge! High profile guest speakers joined in with secondary school students including our very own Sirius Academy West and Sirius Academy North students to take part in the mannequin challenge.

For over a month now SAN has given students an opportunity to develop their model making and wargaming skills by participating in Games Workshop School Alliance Club.

On Tuesday 1st November, a new cohort of students from Y7 and Y8 travelled to the KCOM Stadium for the first session in this years Young Reporters.

On 11th October, a group of Year 9 students visited the KCOM stadium to take part in a careers workshop.

The Academy is proud to announce that two of our students have been successful, participating in the ‘Best Young Artists in Hull’ 2016 competition.

Thanks to the generous support of the HSBC bank and with the help of the Tall Ships Youth Trust, ten of our students have set sail upon a ten day full financed voyage around the French Coast and on into the Med.

On Saturday 3rd Septembers, students from the Academy performed at Hull's annual Freedom Festival.

Last week saw our Yr10 Geography students explore coastal landforms and processes for their forthcoming controlled assessments at Flamborough Head and Hornsea.

This morning more than 20 of our Year 7 Geography and History students joined Mr Carvill, the Head of Humanities, Mr Pilkington, Coordinator of Geography and Ms Blanchard, Lead Practitioner of Humanities, for a celebration breakfast (of bacon, egg and sausage sandwiches!) for their Humanities Intervention participation.

A group of our year 8 and year 9 students took part in an ECITB (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) event yesterday.

On Wednesday 6th July, eight students visited the 'Teen Tech 2016’ event at the KCOM stadium.

On Friday 1st July, a group of year 8 and 9 students took part in the inaugural SAN "Little Bang" (so called as a homage to the Big Bang STEM careers fair that we attended at Doncaster Racecourse on Tuesday).

A group of 53 students from across the year groups visited The Big Bang Fair at Doncaster racecourse, which aims to showcase a wide range of STEM careers available to them.

On Monday, 13 of our students took part in a vocal workshop that was led by Paul Field and Kathleen Guthrie from the Stolen Lives Project.

On Sunday afternoon, Year 8 students Dylan Coupland and Jacob Pacey represented Sirius North on the steel pans and drums as part of the recently formed Hull Community Steel Pan Band.

Four members of the SIRIUS ACADEMY NORTH Gifted & Talented cohort excelled in the recent MENSA testing scoring in the Top 2% for their age in the country.

Last Friday, seven of our students completed their Grade 1 drum exam at The Albermarle Centre.

At Sirius Academy North, literacy and numeracy are both very high priorities and we spend a lot of time thinking about the best ways to raise achievement in these crucial areas.

Students have been exploring war poetry in their English lessons and have been enjoying the works of Tennyson, Owen and Sassoon. So much so, that two of our pupils have gone away and written their own poems independently.

On 21st April, the Academy received a visit from The Happy Puzzle Company.

A group of Year 8 students visited the Reckitt Benckiser R&D factory on Thursday 24th March, so they could pitch their idea for a new product to a panel of "Dragons".

The Healthier Options award recognises catering businesses within Hull and the East Riding area, who are committed to customer care by providing a healthier environment and healthier food choices.

On Friday 18th March, our Year 7 and 8 students attended The Big Bang Science Fair at Hull University.

Proceeds to go to Hull Brain Tumour mum - Leigh Lancaster King appeal to allow treatment that could give her more time with her daughter.

Last night, on Thursday 17th March, we welcomed our future Year 7 students and their families into the Academy.

15 students attended the tournament, with some great quality on display.

This morning, on Wednesday 16th March, students in Year 6 at Parkstone Primary school visited the Academy for a science session, in which they learnt about and made some fossils, They were brilliant ambassadors for Parkstone and had a really good time.

Do you love coming up with great ideas for games? Now is your chance to take it to the next level! BAFTA Young Games Designer is a free initiative that will inspire young people to turn their interest in playing games into a passion for creating them.

The Academy has been busy raising money for Sports Relief all week. To support the cause, the PE department have designed an opportunity for students from all year groups to take part in a range of sporting activities, at lunchtime, such as football, badminton, netball and cricket. This was a fun way to test students’ abilities against those of the PE staff.

On 10th March 2016, the students of 9REN1 participated in the BBC School Report Day.

On Thursday 10th March, some of our Year 8 and 9 Science students participated in a "Dragon's Den" style activity day, in collaboration with Reckitt Bencksier, Smailes Goldie Group and Designs Signage Solutions Ltd.

A group of Year 10 girls spent the day at Hull University where they took part in a number of interactive sessions in the sports and science departments of the University, to celebrate International Women’s Day.

In order to play a part in International Women's day today a group of Year 10 girls spent the day at Hull University.

Our most able students in Maths recently took part in the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge.

Thirty four Year 11 students took part in an Aspirational residential recently to four of the colleges at Cambridge University.

The Admissions Team have received a number of concerns from parents of Y6 students regarding the current admissions selection.

The year 11 Btec Sport students, had a great opportunity this week, as they got the chance to ask Hull FC players, Fetuli Talanoa and Mickey Paea, questions about what it takes to be professional and about their training methods.

At Sirius we take the future seriously,our comprehensive careers education and guidance programme is designed to support each individual to make their own realistic and informed career choices.

To make it easier to buy the school uniform, we have chosen to use the Parents Online ordering service from Price & Buckland.

During reward visits to Pizza Hut in the last few days and I Would like to pass on some wonderful comments made about your students. As an employee of Pizza Hut, Kingswood.

On Friday, myself and Kerry Baron travelled to London with Elisee Manzi, Holly Giles and Kieran Wall to attend the ‘Supporter to Reporter’ celebration event at West Ham’s football ground. The day was fantastic and the students were amazing!

After further behind the scenes lobbying and campaigning with the councillors of the City of Hull, I am pleased to say that the resolution for Hull to be Conflict-Free will be approved and passed in Council Chambers on the Thursday 18th June.

On Monday 22nd June 2015, the Hull University Singing Strategy group worked with music students in Years 7-10 through a range of interactive vocal activities and workshops.

The Year 10 Music students put on their own summer performance event as part of their BTEC course.

Over the past couple of months we have been learning about conflict minerals and how they impact the world.

The year 10 GCSE Photography students have been on a field trip around some of Hulls most glamorous locations.

Year 7 Maths whizz kids have completed their final visit to the KC for a host of fun Maths activities.

Students walked around Boulogne’s old town, visited an aquarium and learnt how chocolate is made at a French chocolate factory.

Students have worked on their proposal to make Hull the first “Conflict Free City” in the UK.

Year 11 have been creating their final performances for their exam. The class were given their stimulus which they explored as a class and each group came up with three very different performances.

A group of 11 students, (all girls, braver than the lads I think) had requested to take part in the abseiling event at the Year 11 residential recreational centre Hollow Ford located in the Peak District.

Ms Fortnum took a group of Yr 7s to KC Stadium every Monday to take part in "Run With It", a program to deliver functional Maths.

A group of 11 students, (all girls, braver than the lads I think) had requested to take part in the abseiling event at the Year 11 residential recreational centre Hollow Ford located in the Peak District.

The year 9 students were up for the challenge on Wednesday evening, with 26 students attending the first Btec Sport revision session, in preparation for their Unit 1 external exam week beginning 29th June.

When we first started the project to make Hull a conflict-mineral free city, we went to Sirius academy to watch presentation while a few Sirius students join us.

A group of Year 11 students visited the KC Stadium on the 15th May, which they all throughly enjoyed.

The RAF brought their educational roadshow to TFA on the 11th of May, the pupils thoroughly enjoyed learning not only about the many career prospects in the RAF; but also the Physics behind engineering.

It has been published via Amazon Kindle and has received the following review so far: This review is from: Bleeding Shadows (Kindle Edition)

Following the fantastic success of the last school production, Little Shop of Horrors students at the Academy are getting ready to audition for the next school production, one of the most loved musicals in the UK, Grease.

Reporting on Hull FC’s 150th Anniversary year is another lucky group of Year 7 Students from Thomas Ferens Academy.

Eleanor Smith and Lucie Poucher both Year 9 girls are part of a Hull cheer leading group called the Diamond white stars.

Thomas Ferens was pleased to welcome X Hull City Footballer Laurie Dudfiled into the Academy on Wednesday 15th April.

On Friday 20th March,Thomas Ferens Head boy Matthew Parker made his professional stage debut in the show ‘Hair Of The Dog’ performed by Penny Duck Theatre.

Students of Thomas Ferens Academy set their goal to the highest of levels this weekend and topped it off meeting those also at the top of their game; Chelsea Football Club.

A summary of British Science Week events at Thomas Ferens Academy 16th-20th March.

Between the 16th-20th March students at the Thomas Ferens Academy will be given the opportunity to engage in an exciting programme of activities for British Science Week 2015

Isn't it amazing to see and hear about how the money you've raised has had a massive positive impact?

Year 9 students completing a practical lesson, covering unit 2 of the EDEXCELl BTEC Sport First Level 2 course.

Student Adam Cunningham prepares for "deconstruction items" as prep work for GCSE Photography exam.

Once the Academy day has finished at 3:05pm we offer a “Homework” club for pupils who can catch up with their homework in a quiet space and have the knowledge that it is completed on time.

Year 11 took part in an aspirational, two and a half day intervention residential at Cave Castle Hotel recently.

Rehearsals are going well for our production of A Little Shop of Horrors.

We are delighted to take this opportunity to introduce you to our Academy. The transition from Primary to Secondary education is the next exciting step in any student’s learning journey. The wealth of opportunities provided can be both empowering and uplifting.