It has been an eventful week with a variety of events taking place for students across all year groups.

Obviously our duckings have taken centre stage and Duckwatch has acclaimed much following through our internal and external links - they are almost as famous as Justin Beiber or Beyonce!

Students have enjoyed all the activities which have brought another dimension of science into the classroom, a little bit different to lessons and in some respects amusing scientific facts.

Well done to Ally Stuart and Javaun Jackson for their performances in the Jack Petchey 'Speak Out' regional finals at Burntwood School this wee.

Well done to Helen Webley Brown for getting through to the finals of this competition after scooping first place at the London Regional heats. She will now represent Ashcroft and the London area at the England ARTiculation Symposium and Finals on 10 March at Clare College, University of Cambridge.

A very special STEAM Club praise for: Angus Stewart 9T4, Safa Khan 9T1, Hannah Colwell 8T2, Zohaa Sheikh 8T6 and Samuel Edmonson 8T5

..... for their EXCELLENT representation of the Academy on their recent visit to the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN Laboratories, Switzerland.  This trip was an excellent enrichment experience for our students, who were praised by CERN for their superb behaviour and for having been so well prepared prior to the trip with the right knowledge and questions.  Our students have returned inspired to consider careers at CERN. 

Helen Webley Brown represented the Academy for the quarter-final of the ARTiculation competition.  She had plenty of support from her fellow Year 12 IB students who accommpanied her.