It was great to open up our Academy to visitors on Wednesday for our annual open evening. The rain held off (mostly!) and we welcomed several hundred families onto site to visit our faculties, hear from our students, see our facilities and hear from me about our vision, values and purpose.

We have had some wonderful feedback from families who visited on our student helpers, who are the backbone of open evening. They are tour guides who take families around the Academy, explaining about all the different buildings and what it is like to be a student at Churchill. They are helpers in faculties, running demonstrations and helping our visitors engage in the activities. They run stalls in our extra-curricular showcase. They are performers, working in drama, dance, music and art to show their work in progress. And Hannah, Kristupas, Maisie, Anna, Lexi and Caitlin were speakers, showing great confidence and poise in addressing the audience in the pool hall during the presentations.

Open evening is a great opportunity to show off the school that we are all so proud of. Even an unplanned fire alarm didn’t put us off! It was great to meet so many future students – we look forward to seeing you all next year.

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Applications for place in Year 7 at Churchill Academy & Sixth Form for September 2025 are open now. The North Somerset applications page is here. If you live outside North Somerset you should apply to the local authority where you live – if you enter your home postcode here it will take you to the correct website for you to apply from. We look forward to hearing from you!