Sixth Form Enrichment
Beyond academic studies, we have an exciting enrichment programme for scholars to explore.
“The school prioritises pupils’ personal development exceptionally well. The extra-curricular programme is rich and diverse. Pupils regularly take part in a wide range of clubs including music, sport, photography and chess. Many are proud to be student ambassadors, including those in the sixth form who lead these groups.” OFSTED 2023
Events
Music
The academy’s co-curricular programme includes a Big Band, Brass Ensemble, Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble as well as several smaller ensembles for woodwind, brass, strings and percussion. Choral Music is especially strong, stemming from singing being at the heart of classroom music and leading to the Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs, School Choir and Chamber Choir. The academy enjoys a strong relationship with NMPAT (the lead organisation for the Northamptonshire and Rutland Music Hub), with several ensembles led by NMPAT teachers, and with the Nevill Holt Festival, for whom the academy provided the Children’s Choir for productions of La Bohème, Carmen, Noye’s Fludde and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Nevill Holt Opera, being described by the Daily Telegraph as “simply terrific” and by Arts Desk as “superb and immaculately drilled”. Over the last few years, the School Choir has performed Britten St Nicolas and Orff Carmina Burana with the Orchestra of St John’s, Monteverdi Vespers with the Northampton Bach Choir, and Praetorius Mass for Christmas morning with the Gabrieli Consort in venues including Dorchester Abbey, Ely Cathedral, Hull Minster and St John’s Smith Square, London, as well as providing the choir for the Britten Sinfonia’s performance of music for the video game Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.
Music students at MAA have gone on to take up places at the UK’s leading universities and conservatoires, with several ex-students now working as professional musicians.
Sport
As part of the David Ross Education Trust, we also access to some once in a lifetime opportunities. Our students have been coached by Olympic Champions, been part of master classes with Cricket legends Shane Warne and Alastair Cook, attended the Commonwealth Games, been part of Team GB and performed in front of Lord Coe, Colin Jackson and Lawrence Dallaglio, to name a few opportunities. On top of this we compete at our Trust wide events including the Winter and Summer Cups each year.
Sixth Form Students have the opportunity to access a bespoke Sports Enrichment programme and compete against their peers in academy interhouse competition.
We also take part in numerous development days across the academic year for a variety of sports where students have the opportunity to develop their sporting potential, working alongside other elite performers and being coached by experts. The David Ross Education Trust also offers football tours open to all students with this years being held in Paris!
