House News
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Thursday 16 October 2025 House Netball 2025 Congratulations to Terra House who were crowned house netball champions this week by just 1 point to Caeli house in second place. Students and staff took to the court throughout the week to represent their respective house teams in a number of exciting year group, round-robin style competitions. The competition got underway on Monday lunchtime as the year 9 to 11 teams battled it out for the first points on the board. All matches were extremely close but it was Terra who won both of their matches over Caeli and Aqua to take the overall lead. The following day the year 7 and year 8 teams showcased their skills in a day dominated by Caeli house, with two wins of their own to level proceedings. Aqua also managed to pick up their first victory of the competition with a win over Terra.
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Tuesday 1 November 2022 House Deal or No Deal makes its return this term Please see the results of deal or no deal house competition
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Monday 26 September 2022 Caeli Crowned Limbo Champions 2022 On 26th September Aqua, Caeli and Terra went head to head in Limbo house competition.
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Tuesday 19 July 2022 Terra are crowned House Champions 2022 Please see the results of the 2021-22 House Championship
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Friday 15 July 2022 Terra are crowned Sports Day Champions Please see the results of the 2021-22 Sports Day Championship
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Friday 29 April 2022 Aqua Charity Event We are delighted to reveal that the CRA community raised £545.33 for the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
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Friday 25 March 2022 Caeli scoop Bully's Mystery Prize On Thursday 24th March Aqua, Caeli and Terra participated in the House version of the ITV hit quiz show, Bulls Eye.
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Friday 11 February 2022 CRA Top 'New Year Cup' Leader board We have done it. Charles Read Academy have been crowned champions of the DRET New Year Cup for the most Km â„¢s covered per head, out performing 32 other academies across the DRET Network
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Thursday 10 February 2022 Caeli Crowned MasterChef Champions Caeli have become the inaugural winners of our House Masterchef competition
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Friday 4 February 2022 Aqua 'New Year Cup' Champions The first ever DRET New Year Cup has come to an end with Charles Read Academy accumulating a total distance of 1,562km throughout January
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Wednesday 15 December 2021 House Christmas Party On Thursday, KS3 & KS4 students took part in the House Christmas Party.
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Monday 29 November 2021 Staff face fears in 'Im a Teacher Get Me Out of Here' House Competition 10 members of staff at Charles Read Academy took on 4 gruelling trails in our very own version of ITVs hit show Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
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Monday 22 November 2021 Aqua Retain House Indoor Rowing Crown Last Friday, 60 plus students from across all year groups went head to head in the house indoor rowing competition.
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Monday 8 November 2021 CRA Community Litter Pick - term 2 Please see the details of our term 2 community litter pick.
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Monday 1 November 2021 Halloween House Results Over half term students and staff at Charles Read Academy took part in a series of Halloween themed house competitions, including Pumpkin Carving, best Halloween costume and a family quiz. There were a number of fantastic entries across all 3 houses which made judging extremely difficult.
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Sunday 19 September 2021 Aqua crowned House Limbo champions On Friday 17th September Aqua, Caeli and Terra went head to head in the first house competition of the year, Limbo
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Tuesday 20 July 2021 Double Delight for Aqua as they are Crowned 2021 House Champions
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Monday 19 July 2021 Epic 'Lip Sync' Battle as Caeli Claim Victory
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Friday 16 July 2021 Aqua Crowned Inaugural Sports Day Champions
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Friday 4 June 2021 CRA does The Cube See how CRA students and staff got on in our latest House competition - The Cube.
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Friday 28 May 2021 House Rounders Competition Term 5 ended how it started, with a sports competition, this time with 140 students taking to the field to represent Aqua, Caeli and Terra in a wee k long House Rounders competition.
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Monday 10 May 2021 House Dodgeball Competition The first sport house competition of term 5 saw over 90 students represent their house teams in a week long Dodgeball event.
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Thursday 22 April 2021 House Poetry Competition Over the Easter holidays students and staff took part in the house poetry competition. The theme of the competition was Resilience and entries could be based on real life experiences if they wished.
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Friday 26 March 2021 House Netball Competition Over 100 students across all year groups took to the hard courts at CRA to go head to head in a week long House Netball Competition.
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Monday 8 March 2021 House 'lockdown' The Masked Singer
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Monday 8 March 2021 House ‘Lockdown’ Virtual Tour of Europe
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Monday 8 March 2021 House ‘Lockdown’ Book Review
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Friday 12 February 2021 CRA - Masked Singer
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Monday 14 December 2020 Santa Run
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Monday 14 December 2020 House Christmas Party
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