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Sports Leaders Academy @ Clare Primary

On the morning of Monday 26th March Mr Grindrod, Billie,  Keaton,  Millie and Alithea from the Samuel Ward Sports Leadership Academy went to Clare Primary where they delivered an excellent morning [...]

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Letters from Afghanistan

As you know Operation Shoebox was a huge success.  We sent over 100 boxes to the troops of 653 Squadron Army Air Corps who are stationed at Camp Bastian. We were [...]

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Challenge of Management

This year Year 12 students from the Samuel Ward Academy participated in the ‘Ardex Challenge of Management Conference at the fantastic venue of Sturmer Hall, thanks to the kindness of Daniel [...]

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Samuel Ward Schools Partnership

THE SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP OFFICE IS BASED AT SAMUEL WARD Any questions regarding the Schools Partnership please contact  Mr A Prestoe (Vice Principal) - 01440 761511 aprestoe@samuelward.co.uk   SECONDMENT OF MATHS TEACHER [...]

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Sports Day

was on Monday 25 June. The day started with some of our students and some students from local primary schools running with a replica Olympic torch. They ran from Samuel [...]

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Non Uniform Day ~ Wed 11 July

On Wednesday our Year 7 and Year 9 students had a non-uniform day in aid of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. Kim Birkin, one of our Year 7 students wrote her [...]

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Our new building work

Two new sports halls are being built along with two outside resurfaced tennis courts and a small outside multi use games area (MUGA).  We hope these will meet the demands [...]

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The making of Harry Potter

On Friday 27 April, a group of 90 Samuel Ward Academy students went on a Media Studies trip to the Warner Bros ‘making of Harry Potter’ studios. This is where [...]

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Proposal for A Special Free School for Haverhill

Great news, we are through to the next round!  On Thursday 10 May, Howard Lay and four colleagues have been invited to London to make a 15 minute presentation and have [...]

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Festival of Music Fri 9 March

Once again we have taken part in the school music festival. Over the last 25 years over 30,000 school pupils have taken part and performed to an audience of approx [...]

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Enterprise Years 7 & 8

  We promote an enterprise culture, creating strong links with business, thus giving pupils a better understanding of their future role and responsibility in the economic community. The challenge was [...]

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European Day of Languages ~ 26 Sept

Students from Years 7 to 11 have taken part in a national competition. They had to decide upon a word they could translate into a foreign language; they then illustrated [...]

About Samuel Ward Academy

Samuel Ward Academy is a school at the heart of the community and the inspiration for the people within it. We are at the cutting edge of education, use innovative technologies and teaching methods and challenge the barriers that prevent people from excelling. We value the success of every individual, their honesty and integrity, celebrate creativity and foster resilience and independence. We expect each person to respect others and the community in which they live.