Manor Drive Secondary Academy

On Monday, all year groups took part in a knife crime prevention workshop.

The workshop used a combination of performance, storytelling, and honest discussion to explore the reality of knife crime and the choices available to young people.

It was a thought-provoking session, and MDSA students were fully engaged and highly responsive to this important message.

📢 Reminder for Year 10 Art Students

Year 10 Art students will be taking part in their Practice Art Exam on Thursday 18th June.

Please ensure that you arrive on time, bring all required materials and are prepared for a full day of focused creative work. This is an excellent opportunity to experience exam conditions and showcase your artistic skills ahead of next year's GCSE assessments.

Good luck to all our talented artists – we look forward to seeing your fantastic work!

FINAL LIBRARY CHALLENGE OF THE YEAR! 🏆📚

Think you've got what it takes to top the leaderboard? 🚀

Borrow and read as many books as you can from the library between Wednesday 9th June and Monday 13th July to climb to the top of our Book Borrowing Leaderboard!

🥇 1st Place Prize: £10 Amazon Voucher

📖 Remember: It's not just about borrowing books – you'll need to prove you've actually read them!

Get reading, get borrowing, and claim your place at the top before the challenge ends. Good luck! 🍀

We are incredibly proud of our six Year 10 Sports Leaders, who volunteered over three days to support Sports Day at Manor Drive Primary Academy last week.

Their confidence, enthusiasm, dedication and commitment helped make the event a huge success, providing encouragement and support to all the children who took part.

The feedback from the primary school has been fantastic:

"A huge thank you to your sports ambassadors; they have been amazing and are a credit to your school. Their help, dedication and support to all the children over the course of three days made our Sports Day a success."

Well done to all involved for being such outstanding role models and ambassadors for our school community!

🎨 Last Friday, students at MDSA enjoyed a fantastic creative workshop with illustrator Emily Bowers!

The session encouraged students to explore mark-making, drawing to scale, and memory drawing while thinking about the connection between art, nature, and wellbeing. Students discussed thought-provoking questions such as:

🌿 How can creativity in public spaces affect people?
🌳 What aspects of nature inspire you?
😊 How do green spaces make us feel?

The artwork and ideas created during the session will help inspire a brand-new outdoor artwork in Eye village. Thank you to Emily for leading such an engaging and inspiring workshop!

✨ Want to get involved? More FREE creative workshops for 12–16-year-olds are coming up in Eye. Young people and their families can find out more and book their FREE place via the Eventbrite links here:

https://peterboroughpresents.org/make-a-mural-in-eye-village-with-other-12-16-year-olds/

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to help create a community mural and have your ideas shape a public artwork!

📚✨ WEEKLY WELLBEING LUNCHTIME ✨📚

Mrs Harrison and Miss Henderson are pleased to announce that, from now on, a Wellbeing Lunchtime will be available every Tuesday in the library.

This is a calm, quiet space for students who feel they would benefit from a more relaxed lunchtime environment. Activities will include:

🎨 Colouring
✂️ Simple paper crafts
📖 Reading
🧩 Jigsaws
🃏 Card games

Whether you would like to take part in an activity, enjoy some quiet time, or simply unwind during lunch, you are very welcome to join us.

Students who wish to use the library for reading or completing homework are still very welcome to do so on Tuesdays as normal.

We look forward to welcoming students each week and providing a positive, supportive space for everyone.

🧹🌍 More information about our recent Community Clean-Up can be found in the Peterborough United - Peterborough Telegraph:

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/your-world/students-step-up-for-manor-drive-community-clean-up-8644016

We are incredibly proud of our students for their enthusiasm, commitment and hard work in helping to make a positive difference to our local community. Their efforts demonstrate the values of responsibility, teamwork and community spirit.

A huge well done to everyone involved! 👏💙

Students step up for Manor Drive community clean-up “It felt good knowing we were helping people in the area.”

Throughout June, we're inviting our staff, students and their families to take part in 🌟Joyful June 🌟 by trying one small, positive action each day.

From showing kindness and gratitude to spending time outdoors or connecting with friends and family, these simple actions can have a positive impact on our wellbeing and help spread joy throughout our community.

Join in as much or as little as you wish and see how small acts can make a big difference. We'd love to hear how you're taking part!

💛 Let's make June a month full of positivity, kindness and connection.

A huge well done to Pola in year 7, who has completed additional History work at home on King John, a topic we have been studying as part of our ‘Power and the Monarchs’ unit.

In this topic, students explore how the power of monarchs changed during the Medieval period and the events that shaped the relationship between rulers and their subjects.

Pola demonstrated excellent historical understanding, independent learning, and a real enthusiasm for the subject.

We are always delighted to see students extending their learning beyond the classroom, and Pola’s effort is a fantastic example of this.

We were delighted to take two of our talented linguists to the Translation Bee Competition at Comberton Village College in Cambridge who represented Manor Drive Academy with enthusiasm and maturity. They bravely competed against other schools in the regional competition. The competition challenged students to translate sentences from English into French accurately and quickly, testing both their language knowledge and confidence under pressure. We are incredibly proud of how they represented the academy and embraced the challenge with incredible language skills.