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Salford City Academy celebrated the magical world of reading on World Book Day 2025.

Salford City Academy's facilities are available for hire by the local community during evenings, weekends and school holiday periods. If you are part of a local club or group, why not base your sessions at our school!

SCA buzzed with excitement and literary flair as students and teachers celebrated World Book Day with a range of activities designed to ignite a love for reading. SCA, nestled in the heart of our community, transformed into a literary wonderland, emphasising the importance of books and storytelling in education.

Through the exciting platform, our students will be able to explore the multiple career opportunities available to them, both at ITV and across the creative industries. The programme provides a way for us to collaborate with creative partners and businesses local to us and give our students access to 1:1 mentoring programmes, workplace visits and other creative initiatives.

In a heartwarming display of community spirit, our local newspaper, Salford Now, has beautifully captured the essence of the upcoming holiday season by featuring a heartfelt article about our senior citizen's Christmas lunch.  

~ Validated league tables from the Department for Education confirm above average student progress for Salford City Academy students ~ 

~ School secures its highest progress score in 2022 ~ 

Salford City Academy has reinforced its success at GCSE this summer with validated progress scores.

The scores come as part of the Department for Education’s validated GCSE league tables released today. This national data shows schools’ performance on the government’s Progress 8 measure, which calculates the average progress students make by GCSE, compared with other similar schools. A progress score that meets the national average is set at 0 each year, with anything higher reflecting value added to a student’s achievements during their time at school.

Pupils from Barton Moss Primary School and Salford City Academy were joined by special guests on 5^th December at the launch of a new 'Park and Stride' scheme. It's part of a series of improvements to make the walk to school safer and more enjoyable.

The changes have come about after Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking worked with pupils from Barton Moss Primary School to assess the local streets to see what improvements could be made to make it easier for them to walk to school.

We are delighted to announce that we, Salford City Academy, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year.   The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.  

Students of Salford City Academy can continue reading at home. Our literacy team share helpful links and information in this article to show you how.

Students visit the capital for the international charity’s annual celebration at Wembley Arena. WE Day is about empowering young people to create positive social change. Visit forms part of the academy’s commitment to providing an ‘Education with Character’.

On Wednesday 26 February, over 180 Year 9 students from Salford City Academy heard a testimony from Holocaust survivor, Lady Milena Grenfell Baines, as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). 

Salford City Academy is fully compliant to the government's advice regarding the risk of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

62 students are working towards the Arts Award, a programme funded by Arts Council England. Students immersing themselves in arts and culture as part of the academy’s Aspire initiative. Aspire is part of how the academy seeks to offer an ‘education with character’.

Recently, the whole of Year 9 came together at Salford City Academy to spend the academy day off-timetable in preparation for their guided GCSE options.  

All Salford City Academy Year 9 students recently visited our neighbours at the University of Manchester to explore their GCSE options and pathways to future further and higher education study.  

Ten fanatical STEM enthusiasts from Salford City Academy are proud to have recently competed in the first ever LEGO Mindstorms League Regional Final. 

Aspiring scientists across Salford City Academy continue to work tirelessly in order to regenerate school grounds as part of whole school Aspire initiative.  

We have some exciting news about some changes that will be happening at Salford City Academy after February half-term.  

Two former Salford City Academy students have returned as trainee teachers. Both were inspired to become PE teachers by seeing the long-lasting impact their own teachers had had on their lives. 

 Interview to be broadcast nationwide on CBBC this week, following Wilson’s appearance on BBC Breakfast 

Alex Doyle is future star in the making with a promising performance for Salford City FC, in his first game since the team won promotion.

Salford City Academy celebrated World Book Day in style as the students and staff fully embraced a love of literature.