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City Girls show us how its done.
July 2008

The girls went down a storm!

Their dance routines were brilliant and really got the crowd psyched up! We think the boys fell in love (they didn't stop talking about the band for weeks afterwards) and the girls were awed by what ambition can achieve.

A fab afternoon's entertainment which the students and staff will not forget.

Thanks City Girls!

Sixth Formers have their say
11 July 2008

Jordan Crick, Grant Byrne and Martyn Jarvis took part in a Ministerial Consultation Event for young people this week.

The event aims to help generate feedback directly from young people that can help advise the Government when making final decisions about what new laws it will introduce to Parliament in the coming year.

BBC South Today were at the event, see our students' video here

Winnie's a Sparks Top-Five
24 June 2008

18-year-old, Winnie Oudemans thought of her idea for a web-based one-stop-resource-shop for prospective university students whilst she was going through the university application process herself.

When she submitted her idea to The Bright Ideas Trust and Virgin Media's Sparks competition the judges were so impressed that she was given a top five place.

Congratulations Winnie, and good luck in all your future projects, we know you will do well.

JMA Diploma Graduation
22 May 2008

This week saw our first year of graduations from the JMA Diploma course.

In order to graduate students must gain Diploma points from progress and target grades, House points, attendance, competencies and enrichment hours through the Academic year.

Students need 250 points to gain a bronze award, 350 for silver and 400 for Gold. They must gain over 250 to graduate to the next year group.

The Graduation ceremonies took place on Monday for Year 7, Tuesday for Year 8 and Wednesday for Years 9 and 10. During the ceremony students received their certificates with parents present.

We are delighted at our pass rate.
Year 7 - 98% graduated
Year 8 - 96% graduated
Year 9 - 96% graduated
Year 10 - 86% graduated

Well done everyone.

Academy wins Secondary School of the Year!
11 December 2007

Reading Sports Personality of the Year 2007 presented their Secondary School of the Year award to The John Madejski Academy during a glitzy ceremony at Rivermead. Lead Sports teacher at the Academy Adam Bousfield (pictured here with Councillor Paul Gittings) picked up the award which was given in recognition of the outstanding new sporting facilities, teaching and achievement.

Tony Blair opens the Academy
5 December 2007

It was a memorable day as the skies cleared for just long enough to allow us to seat the whole school and over 150 guests in the Agora for the Official Opening Ceremony of the John Madejksi Academy on Wednesday afternoon.

Tony Blair was all smiles as he delivered a heart-felt speech about education and the Academies programme. He was then taken on a tour of the school where he joined in various learning activities and witnessed some show case sporting action. He also cut the ribbon for the newly finished state-of-the-art Sports Hall.

Visit the Get Reading site here for a video of the events and visit our own monster photo gallery page - can you spot yourself?

Kes a roaring success!
December 2007

The John Madejski Academy's Christmas performance of an adaptation of Kes was roaring success!

An energising performance it made the audience laugh it made them cry.

The cast, including staff and students gave it their all and pulled off a brilliant erformance.

Special mention should go to James Rolfe who worked his socks off for 6 months to produce one of the best performances I have seen. James is to audition for the national Youth Theatre in May, so good luck to him.

The next school production will be Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, anyone who wishes to help or take part should contact Mr Robinson.

Academy Wins Education Business Award
23 November 2007

The John Madejski Academy has won a 2007 Education Business Award, in the 'Academy Development Award' category. This award recognised a recently completed Academy project that has demonstrated sound project management and procurement skills in order to complete development on time and to budget. The award also recognised educational achievements including improvements in truancy. Massive congratulations to the whole Academy staff and project team for a well deserved award

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