Chellaston Academy

💚🏉🖤Rugby Coaching Festival 💚🏉🖤
Well done to Year 8/ 9 boys who were involved in the Derby County Trust Rugby Coaching Festival yesterday.
The boys PLANNED and DELIVERED sessions to over 500 primary school students at Rolls-Royce Rugby Club. They all showed great leadership and integrity in representing Chellaston academy. Amazing work boys, Mr Warren was very proud of you - Well done!

🖤🐏🇲🇼🤍One of our wonderful Year 12 students, William A, has recently returned from an incredible two-week volunteering trip to Nakuru, Kenya, where he worked at St Trizah School as part of a team of 81 volunteers organised by Derby County Community Trust and African Adventures. After raising over £5,800 through a range of fundraising activities, William travelled to Kenya carrying donations of essential items including backpacks, clothing, toys, stationery and toiletries for the children. During his time at the school, he helped paint classrooms and toilet blocks, repair facilities, organise books for pupils, prepare meals for more than 100 children and staff, and even painted a large periodic table in one of the classrooms. William also supported teaching and helped distribute donations to the children. Alongside the volunteering work, he experienced some of Kenya’s most famous landmarks and wildlife, including a safari, the Great Rift Valley and the Giraffe Centre. This life-changing experience not only made a real difference to the local community but also demonstrated William’s commitment, compassion and willingness to help others. We congratulate William on this remarkable achievement and are incredibly proud of the positive impact he has made. Well done, William! 🖤🐏🇲🇼🤍

💚🖤Year 6 Reminder! 💚🖤
Please send your grouping choices requested by Mrs Shillingford in by the end of the day on 5th June - Many thanks! Look forward to seeing you all soon!

💚☀️🖤We hope you've had a restful half term and are ready for an action packed summer term ahead!💚☀️🖤
⚽️🥅⚽️Over the half term Natalie B and Eva P in Year 7 travelled for 3 hours and took part in the national Filey Cup tournament with their team and WON on the first day and came RUNNERS UP on the second day! 👏👏👏
Chesapeake FC, a grassroots youth club based in Derby (training at Chaddesden Park), travels to the Yorkshire coast annually to compete in the national Filey Cup tournaments. The club takes teams across multiple age groups (usually ranging from U7 to U18) to play in the competition. ⚽️🥅⚽️
Here they are with their medals, Mr Leese and Miss Byrne - Well done girls!! 👏

🏏🏏Young Cricket Collective have asked us to share this with you! 🏏🏏

Course Details

The course consists of 3 core modules
• Young Club Leader
• Young Activator
• Young Official

All participants will receive:
• Access to an online earning portal to track volunteering hours.
• Branded Young Cricket Collective tracksuit, notebook, pen and bucket hat
• Certificate for attending

This is FREE for all Derbyshire participants in 2026!

Venue: Denby Cricket Club
Date: Wednesday 27th May
Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm
Age: 14-18
Booking Link: https://booking.ecb.co.uk/Zg5Ed1

💚🥈🖤Last weekend we took seventeen Year 10 students to the Peaks for their qualifying weekend.

On Friday the students walked from Tissington to Hulme End. The rain held off and they were all back at camp without any hiccups and able to enjoy their evening meal before a little football with some of the other 120+ DofE students on the campsite.

Saturday involved a circular walk from the campsite with rather mixed weather, bright, a little cold and with the odd light shower. They thankfully all arrived back to camp before the heavy rain started and it was so lovely to see them enjoying cards under the gazebo sheltering from the rain. When there was finally a break in the weather they cooked dinner and managed to have a firepit with toasted marshmallows. When the rain eventually returned we all settle down for the night.

Sunday was an early start with a walk to the pickup point at Waterhouses. The weather was a little better and they all managed to find somewhere to shelter from the frequent but short showers.

Well done to a fabulous group of students who smashed their award and positively represented the school.

To the staff who gave up their weekend, thank you so much your support we couldn’t run the weekend without you. 💚🥈🖤

💚🧁🍰🖤We are so proud of ALL of our students here at Chellaston Academy but would like to give a special mention to our Year 8s - Elizabeth C, May P & Evie A who arranged a bake sale to raise money for Young Minds. The hard work, kindness and generosity of our Year 8 students who baked with them for this brilliant charity hasn't gone unnoticed, they will be rewarded with lots and lots of ICE points!💚🧁🍰🖤 Well done everyone! 👏

💚😔🖤We have a number of items of LOST PROPERTY outside Student Services😔 They will be there for the rest of this week but we're afraid that due to limited storage they will have to be put into bags and recycled💚😔🖤 Fingers crossed, they will be reunited soon! ☺️

💚🥳🖤Calling all Year 6 parents - Please check your inbox/ junk mail for a letter from Chellaston Academy regarding Year 6 to 7 transition information. We're looking forward to September!💚🥳🖤

💚💙💙💙💙🖤This year's Mental Health Awareness Week theme is 'Take action: for yourself, for someone else, for all of us'.
We are reminding our students this week of all the support pathways available both in and out of school. If you need any further support, don't hesitate to contact your child's Head of Year.
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