George Salter Academy -SMSC

George Salter Academy in West Bromwich is a mixed comprehensive school for 11 to 18 year olds. 

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George Salter Academy pupils hit the ski slopes!

On Monday 21st of January and Tuesday 22nd January the pupils who are attending the ski trip at Easter had their first lessons at the Snowdome.   The majority of pupils were complete beginners and thoroughly embraced their first lessons. Skiing and snowboarding are not easy sports to master, but in true George Salter style our pupils made it look easy despite a few falls along the way. This will be great preparation for when they hit the Italian ski slopes at Easter where I'm sure they will progress further. Well done to all who went and hopefully it was as fun to take part as it was to watch!

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2019 BBC School Report -  Some of our GSA BBC News Report team were busy when the Knife Arch arrived at the Academy last week. They thoroughly enjoyed conducting the interviews around the issue of Knife crime in the community. Stay tuned for the next report which will be available in March.

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Year 8 Handball team defy all odds to become North Sandwell Champions'

On Thursday 17th January the U13 Girls Handball team went to the North Sandwell competition where they competed against 4 other schools. The girls had 6 players which automatically put them at a disadvantage as you could play with up to 7 players. The tournament started well with a win against Q3 Tipton, but unfortunately we picked up an injury taking us down to 5 players. This didn't stop them though! They went on to win all their matches with only 5 players and now progress to the next stage of the competition. Well done girls!

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Excellent practical yesterday with Year 9! They were challenged to produce a healthy dish suitable for a young child, superb efforts!

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Year 8 have been making these healthy nutritious risottos last week.I have seen/tasted some amazing results!

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Kacie and Tia's Victoria Sandwich Cakes 

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We were so excited taking our year 12 performing arts students to see Akram Khan’s ‘Until the Lions’ at the Roundhouse Theatre in London yesterday. 

It was be an unforgettable performance!!

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On 8th January 2019, 12 year 7 pupils went to compete in a Junior NBA basketball tournament at Highfields School. Each school in the league is given an NBA team name with George Salter pupils were representing Portland Raiders of the NBA American Basketball team.

The day was really tremendous with all pupils giving everything they had to try and achieve the NBA trophy and move onto the next stage.

With another 5 schools also competing it was a challenging morning for them as all schools including George Salter had high quality players and the level across the tournament was of a high standard.

However, the Georges team worked as a squad and did not give up throughout the whole tournament with great performances and team work being demonstrated before, during and after the tournament.

The team spirit was very high with it being their first day back at school so all pupils were buzzing to compete and show the other schools what they were capable of.

Brilliant effort from the boys that took part, onwards and upwards onto the next fixture/tournament.

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Join us at 6pm on Wednesday 23rd January in the Green Room Theatre when we will showcase our amazing Drama works from students across all the key stages. 

Tickets are priced at £3 for adults and £2 for concessions and can be purchased from the Drama office 

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Christmas Jumper Day at GSA

On Friday 14th December we celebrated our annual Christmas Jumper Day.

Christmas Jumper Day is an annual charity event launched in 2012 on Friday, 14 December, with 100% of proceeds going to the charity ‘Save the Children’. People are encouraged "to make the world better with a sweater" and raise funds for 'Save the Children' by wearing a Christmas jumper and making a minimum donation of £1.

Both students and staff joined in the festivities raising £212.92.

Well done, Georges!

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Music Department Instrumental Exam Celebrations...

The Music Department are celebrating with students for securing excellent grades in their external instrumental exams this term.

Massive well done to:

Ava - Step 2 Piano

Amelia - Grade 1 Clarinet

Kali - Grade 3 Violin

Beena - Grade 3 Violin

Elliscia - Grade 3 Piano

Hard work really does pay off! - Well done, have a great Christmas break!

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Congratulations to our Christmas card design winners F. Islam and K. Spencer.

Well done for their great artistic skills.

The cards will be used to send out our Christmas greetings and will also be enlarged, framed and displayed in school.

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As part of this term’s house charity event it was decided that George Salter Academy would work with West Bromwich Food Bank. All students from all houses were asked to bring in food items that would be going to the food bank in time for Christmas. The reaction from the students and staff was overwhelming and GSA were able to donate over 40 boxes to the academy’s local food bank. 

On Wednesday 12th December a small group of students alongside Mr Price, Mr Hanna and Mrs Jadayel delivered the boxes. The organisation were delighted that we had considered helping them and were extremely grateful to everybody that had donated food items.

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What an incredible end to the term with 130 pupils involved in Thursday Fun 👍🏼😳😏 was so good to see so many pupils getting involved in all the activities on offer!!! Especially at the end of the teacher vs pupil dodgeball special 😱👀👊🏻 overall winners of the dodgeball were the staff 🏆 thanks to everyone who participated!!! 

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Eisha's Chocolate Log in preparation for Christmas! Amazing looking product!

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As part of the Aspire to Higher Education programme, a group of year 12 students visited Jaguar Landrover Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton. They spent the day hearing about the range of degree apprenticeship schemes the company run and the route they can take to apply for these. They were given a tour of the manufacturing factory and had the chance to interview 5 Jaguar Landrover employees from different sectors of the business.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the day was hearing about how much Jaguar Landrover like to see a possible employees transferable skills. There was lots of emphasis on team work, independence, commitment, time keeping and organisation. The CEO of Jaguar Landrover also explained how much they value extra curricular experiences, Duke of Edinburgh, after school clubs, volunteering, and being part of a sports team were just some of the experiences mentioned.

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Miss Higgins and Mrs Higginbotham took some Year 10 Hospitality and Catering students to University College Birmingham on Tuesday 11th December.

The students started the day with a tour around the university restaurants and kitchens, where they got to observe the undergraduates preparing food and drink for members of the public.

After the tour, students had the chance to make floater coffees and also had a go at practicing carrying large trays of drinks over to tables and serving people. The students were taken up to another kitchen where they prepared and cooked a stir fry each, looking at Asian cuisine, seasonality and provenance.

Followed by an afternoon spent in the bakery section, decorating gingerbread men and bread shaping skills, including a 4 strand plait.