House
‘Students will gain transferrable life skills and they will know that they can positively shape their lives through choice not chance.’
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The House System at Charles Read Academy creates a sense of belonging and pride with an ethos that underpins our values. It establishes a caring, supportive environment in which each student is a valued member of a small ‘family unit’, the tutor group, within a slightly larger unit, the house, within a larger ‘family’ the whole school. The House System helps to build an individual’s strengths within a group and create bonds with students of all different ages, which mirrors everyday life.
The House System helps us to combat bullying by building frameworks, which cross year groups for peer support.
We promote and provide opportunity for student voice, student responsibility, team building, leadership skills and co-operation. Students will increasingly work together with staff to run their House, with students voting to elect leaders, exercise leadership and manage their own success as partners with the staff. Whilst we are three houses we are one community creating a school which the students, parents, staff, governors and wider community can be proud of.
House Fanfares
Aqua
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Caeli
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Terra
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House News
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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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Monday 30 November 2020 House I'm a Teacher Get Me Out of Here
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Saturday 21 November 2020 House Rowing
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Sunday 18 October 2020 House Football
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Friday 18 September 2020 House Limbo
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Friday 17 April 2020 House Championships - Lifts Lockdown Spirits
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