Congratulations to our year 10 girls who successfully completed their Your Time to Lead leadership programme this week, delivering over 4 hours of competitive sport to inspire young girls to get involved in sport 🙌👏🏃‍♀️

Congratulations to ex pupil Alfie Bailey, who today secured a PE teaching job with Judgemeadow PE Dept !! We are very proud of you and can’t wait to see you continue to flourish. They have got some teacher on their hands 👏🏻 Looking forward to seeing you on the playing fields Alf 👍🏻

First evening of the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award! All pupils are setting up camp, ready for their 3 day practice expedition! 🤞for the weather! ⛺️🌲

Well done to our Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh pupils, who successfully completed their expedition this week. They demonstrated huge resilience battling the wet weather yesterday and took everything in their stride! 👏👏 Bring on the Silver qualifying in June ⛺️🥈

Orchard Mead visited Loughborough University today on a sports visit! The pupils had an excellent day learning what the uni has to offer, viewing the campus and had a taster of different sporting activities led by undergraduate students. Thank you Loughborough University for hosting 🏫

Today our Year 10 girls netball team Orchard Mead Academy visited Uppingham School who hosted an netball outreach session led by England Netballer Hannah Joseph 🏫 The day was very inspiring and motivational for our pupils

Congratulations to the boys Y8/9 rounders team winning the East Leicester league this evening, winning 5/5 tonight and 9/9 overall 🔥🥇🏆👏🏻 An impressive team and great to see some representing the Academy for the first time! Inspire Together Orchard Mead Academy

Successful day at Leicestershire County Athletics, taking 8 qualifying athletics, 5 making the final and 3 achieving medals! Very proud of our Orchard Mead Academy pupils demonstrating outstanding resilience and hard work 🥇🥈🥉

A fantastic afternoon yesterday & the creation of the Orchard Mead Academy golf club. Students & staff participated in a scramble event Humberstone heights & it was great to see pupils enthusiastic about a new sport we look to delve into more! Looking forward to the next one! England Golf

Silver Qualifying Duke of Edinburgh Expedition ⛺️ Congratulations to the year 10 pupils who successfully completed their expedition over the last 3 days! They showed tremendous resilience, excellent navigational skills and camp craft. You made Orchard Mead Academy proud 🧭🌅🌾

A fantastic 23/24 OMA sports day 🏆👏🏻 Approximately 600 pupils competed in T-tennis 🏓 football ⚽️ basketball 🏀 handball 🤾🏼‍♀️ rounders and dodgeball competitions throughout the day! 👏🏻 Results announced next week! Well done to all that took part!

Proud to announce we have achieved Gold status for the 2nd year running for our commitment to extracurricular & school sport Inspire Together Orchard Mead Academy A fantastic achievement we are really proud of. Well done & thank you to all pupils that have contributed!😄👏🏻✅🥇

A fantastic 4-2 win against Crown Hills for the Y11 Boys football team this evening 👍🏻⚽️👏🏻😁 A thrilling game that had everything. Goals from Harley x2, George and Essiah 🥶🔥 Special mention to Kayden for a great penalty save at a decisive moment in the game 🐈

We are the Leicester City Year 11 Netball Champions!!! 💪💪💪🏆🏆 This group of individuals have worked incredibly hard over the last 5 years. Their attitude and team cohesion is outstanding. We are so proud of them and everything they have achieved. Bring on the next round 👏

Another successful Duke of Edinburgh expedition! Well done to all the pupils who completed their qualifying expedition this week. They have shown outstanding navigation skills, resilience and camp craft. ⛺️👏

Well done to our Year 9 Netball team who had their first games of the year this evening! Outstanding performances from all team members and came out winning 2/3 in the first round 👏👏

Congratulations to our U13 girls football team who won 9-3 in the first round of the ESFA national cup 👏👏👏

The Year 11 Sport studies students have arrived at High Adventure and have made a great start rock climbing 🧗🏻

Year 11s braved the storm yesterday participating in their cycling Assessment in Yorkshire 🥶 All the boys showed excellent attitude and resilience to power through 4 hours of blistering wind and terrential rain ⛈️ Well done boys! Was a pleasure to watch from inside with a ☕️

First ever tag rugby fixture for these girls this evening and they smashed it 👏👏 Outstanding performances all round, demonstrating some excellent athleticism 🏃‍♀️🏉