Academies
There's a saying that goes like this:
If you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life.
We don't want your passions to be constrained by your academic studies. We want your academic studies to be enhanced by you doing what you love.
Our academies are you doing what you enjoy doing at a higher level, carefully timetabled in each week because we know how important these activities are. Love dance? Take classes with local professionals. Photography? Join our workshops. Rugby? Join our national league Rugby Academy. Athletics? Get coaching each week from our professional athletes. Music? Learn another instrument free of charge.
This isn't just about having something else to write on your UCAS form, though it definitely is something else to write on your UCAS form. We know you'll never end up in a job or a lifestyle you're happy with if you don't push yourself in the areas you love most, in a way that doesn't compromise your other studies.
Our academies currently include a variety of sport, performing and visual arts and academic activities (Maths and Law).
Sports
Rugby
The Rugby Academy was created to allow students to develop themselves and play a high standard of rugby alongside academic courses. It is an all year round (3 terms) programme that uses the off-season to enhance strength, conditioning and performance.
Newman Rugby Academy has now been running for four years and we are delighted to be AoC National Champions 2018/19.
We have created an environment that:
Develops high playing levels and understanding
Establishes a strong team environment for like-minded individuals.
Creates ongoing pathways, such as university scholarships and big clubs.
Netball
Newman is delighted to offer aspiring and talented netball players an advanced netball programme delivered in partnership with 5Ways Netball Club (England Netball National Outstanding Club of the Year).
Students will enjoy an intensive and focused weekly programme of training and match play sessions alongside their academic studies including netball specific strength & conditioning, technical and tactical development.
Athletics
The Newman Athletics Academy supports Elite, county, club and school representative athletes in making their goals a reality.
The Athletics Academy is run by ex-Team GB / England Athlete and current International Coach Julia Machin, and provides year-round, tailored training that meets the needs of each individual. We hold fortnightly discussion sessions for at all abilities, covering athletic issues from nutrition to preparing for a major competition. Julia is an international coach for UK athletics and has a level 3 strength and conditioning qualification.
Performing Arts
Music
The Newman Music Academy offers you the opportunity to develop your performance, composition and music production skills alongside your academic A-Level and BTEC studies.
The Music Academy includes free weekly group tuition on voice or instrument and an extensive programme of termly performance, composition and music production workshops.
Drama
The Newman Drama Academy is a weekly programme that offers you opportunities to develop your drama skills alongside your academic A Level Drama & Theatre Course.
The Drama Academy acts as a theatre company and works on a project throughout the year. Our students work together to create and perform a play aimed at a target audience. As well as opportunities to develop your acting skills, we also provide opportunities for you to develop your skills in directing, theatre design and theatre management.
Dance
The Newman Dance Academy is an intensive weekly programme that offers you professional dance technique and training alongside your academic A-Level and BTEC studies.
The Dance Academy is a year-round 3 term programme giving you first-hand access to a range of opportunities and experiences within the professional dance and performing arts industry.
Visual Arts
Graphic Design
Grow your understanding of commercial design, and how graphics is used in business. Through workshops and independent projects at the Graphic Design Academy (GDA), your knowledge of enterprise and commercial graphic design will be developed.
The GDA will run for 2 hours every fortnight, alongside your chosen A Level Subject
Fashion
The Newman Fashion & Textiles Academy is a full and exciting programme that offers you opportunities to learn new skills with a focus on garment and costume construction.
The programme is suitable for students who are looking to pursue a career as a clothing or costume designer, maker, textile artist, or one of the many specialist career strands within the industry. It is suitable if you are planning on studying an art-based course at a higher or degree level and would like to build up a portfolio of work to take to interviews. It is also a fantastic skill to be able to understand patterns and to make your own clothes!
Art and Photography
The Art and Photography Academy is a weekly programme that will give you access to a creative world beyond Newman College and its classroom walls.
You will learn new skills and begin your journey on a creative career path, with guidance from professional creative practitioners. It will run alongside your Creative Arts A-level and BTEC studies.
Maths
The Maths Academy’s results put it in the top 1% for progress for the last 2 consecutive years – with 84% of students achieving and A*/A grade and all passing. There are currently six former Academy students studying at Oxford University with more current year 13 students already having secured offers.
Working in partnership with the University of Sussex, it is our belief that success in higher education and future employability are greatly enhanced by continuing to study a mathematical discipline.
Law
The Law Academy is a weekly programme that will give you access to a world beyond Newman College and its classroom walls. You will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of how the law and legal professionals work in practice, that will not only enhance your core studies, but also help you with the skills and experience you need to move into a legal career in the future. Participation in the Law Academy will not be compulsory for Law students but will be open to all and will run alongside your Law A-level or BTEC Applied Law studies.