Tweet to improve your maths skills!

The Freebrough maths faculty will now be regularly tweeting useful revision information and example GCSE exam questions. Please follow: @ReviseJustMaths @Freebroughmaths   “Maths help on Youtube” – These are the best explanation and revision videos on youtube.  All the videos have been made by experienced maths teachers.  Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/hegartymaths http://www.khanacademy.org/

Poetry Competition Winners

The first Freebrough Poetry Competition has been a great success with entries from all tutor groups. The response to the competition has been fantastic – we had to empty the poetry box twice! Mr Hukin, Director of English, has been delighted with the way the students have embraced the competition: “ It has been really […]

Oxford University Welcomes Freebrough Students

The ‘Going for Gold’ group at Freebrough are a team of high achieving students who receive mentoring, attend guest speaker events and enjoy residential visits to inspire them to strive for excellence. In January, ten members of the group were lucky enough to be invited on a residential trip to Jesus College, Oxford.  This was […]

Freebrough Academy Students Steeled for Success

On Thursday 28 February 2013 nine students educated at the newly opened Enterprise@Freebrough post 16 centre pitched for real life investment from UK steel Enterprise. The students are all currently studying for a Peter Jones Enterprise Academy Level 3 qualification in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, alongside another course of their choice.  As part of this qualification […]

Freebrough Academy Students Steeled for Success

On Thursday 28 February 2013 nine students educated at the newly opened Enterprise@Freebrough post 16 centre pitched for real life investment from UK steel Enterprise. The students are all currently studying for a Peter Jones Enterprise Academy Level 3 qualification in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, alongside another course of their choice.  As part of this qualification […]

Our Brand New Prospectus

Please click on the link below to take a look at our brand new prospectus. We hope that it will give you a flavour of our Academy and encourage you to find out more. Freebrough Academy Prospectus

Going for Gold Mentor Launch

Thursday 31 January 2013 saw the official launch of the Going for Gold Mentoring programme at the flagship new headquarters of Fabrick Housing at Hudsons Quay in Middlesbrough. This launch event brought together targeted high ability Year 11 students from Freebrough Academy and volunteer mentors from Fabrick Housing and Academy sponsors Teesside University. The purpose […]

Students take the lead in lesson planning

The normal rules of the classroom have been turned on their head this term by students in project based learning lessons.  Their teachers have been taking a back seat as the groups answer the question:  Is it possible to create the perfect lesson? Working in groups they are planning every aspect of what they feel […]

Reading Age improvements go through the roof!

Recent reading tests at the Academy have revealed that an outstanding 65% of Freebrough students have improved their reading age by at least a year, and in some cases up to four years,  in a time period of just six months! Lynne Athey, Deputy Principal, explains why reading ages are so important: “Evidence shows that […]

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