Our first Year 9 The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition of the year is over and students are back home after a fantastic two days! Well done to all - looking forward to Group 2 in two weeks’ time! Mr Hellewell Miss Jordon

Our Group 2 Expedition of Year 9s working toward their The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Bronze Award had a fantastic time on their expedition this week - lovely weather for it too! ☀️Mr Hellewell Miss Jordon

“Nobody likes a wobbly compass” - my set up from 7:30 this morning to tighten compasses, teach key protractor skills and assist with any Maths queries pre-exam! DMA Maths Dixons McMillan Academy Dixons Academies Trust

Another fantastic The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition for Year 9 this week - well done to all the students who have walked and camped over the last few weeks and thank you to Mr Hellewell and Miss Jordon for helping students toward their Bronze Awards!

Emotional day. Students who deserve the world. Goodbye Y11. From a very proud ex-HOY. 🤙🏼 To quote Gandalf: “Farewell, my brave Hobbits. My work is now finished. Here at last... comes the end of our Fellowship. I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

Year 9 have had a fantastic day at Bradford Literature Festival where they considered more being positive activists in our communities. We were all blown away when Elora Y9 performed this rap which her and Sakina Y9 had written during a session today about our academy’s values & drivers!

What a fantastic enrichment day! Today year 9 have visited some key historical and religious buildings in Bradford including the Gurdwara, Bradford Cathedral, City Hall, Bradford Wool Exchange and the Doha Mosque. Well done year 9! 👏

It was our absolute pleasure to host short visits yesterday from Year 9 and Year 7 students from Dixons McMillan Academy. The students were really engaged with the building and features - you are always welcome to come back for a longer visit!

Our final day of the year for staff and we’re having a fuddle to give our amazing catering team some time to join too! Looking forward to an amazing summer! ☀️

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In Art and Design Year 8 have been working on the theme ‘Under the Sea' using recyclable materials to create 3D models from corrugated cardboard. Students have shown resilience in learning tessellation, marking out, measuring and modelling their 3D sea animals. Dixons McMillan Academy

Our Year 7 self portraits Dixons McMillan Academy painted in the style of Van Gogh by our talented students who used all their formal elements to create such masterpieces. #vangogh #artwork

In art this term we have been learning about the Aboriginal culture and meanings of Symbolism in a culture with no written language. Students created their own dreamtime stories and turned them into beautiful artwork inspired by Michael Tjakamarra Dixons McMillan Academy

Year 6 Transition day Dixons McMillan Academy was a huge success,it was great to see so many happy faces in Art creating Quintin Blake inspired book marks!

Another fantastic couple of days with our Year 10 GCSE History students visiting Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal for their Year 11 exams. A wonderful way to close out the year!

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