Excellent attitude and performance from our Year 10 footballers last night, winning 4-1 against St Thomas A Becket!
Our half term heroes board has been updated with twelve spooky superstars from a fantastic first half term of attitude and attainment in PE lessons and extra-curricular! 🎃👻⚽️🏆
Incredible effort from our Year 9 footballers who lost on penalties this afternoon against an Ilkley Grammar team that reached the semi-final of the National Cup last year. After a 0-0 draw, we missed two penalties to win in the shootout before losing! 🥺
Fantastic evening of badminton at @CastlefordPE this evening for our first ever inter-trust competition. It was great to see twelve students representing the academy for the first time and we even managed to come out on top! 🏆 🏸
A fantastic week for our Year 9 rugby team who won three matches out of three in the Yorkshire Cup. Wins against Outwood Grange, Horbury and Ossett mean we go through to face Freeston in the next round!
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Massive thanks to Ben for delivering high-quality CPD for the Trust and ensuring staff and students have the knowledge and confidence in handball at KS3 & KS4. 🤾♂️
16 staff, plenty of sweat, very red cheeks and some seriously friendly competition! 😉😂. instagram.com/wannateachpe?m…
Superb evening in Halifax as our Year 9 footballers triumphed in the County Cup, knocking out last year’s champions North Halifax Grammar. After a fantastic performance in a brilliant match, we finally won on penalties after a 4-4 draw!
Brilliant first game for our Year 7 girls footballers who lost on penalties to Boston Spa after a 3-3 draw. ⚽️
We also had over sixty students at KS3 rugby club and Year 8 netball club this evening - a great night down in PE! 🏉
Our Year 8’s rounded off a very busy week yesterday with a defeat to a very strong @ilkleygrammarPE team. It’s a bit quieter next week with the inset day but still lots to take part in! ⬇️
Excellent evening of football against @PATCarletonHigh this evening with two great games. Our Year 7 team tasted success for the first time by winning on penalties whilst our Year 8’s lost 4-3 despite an excellent second half comeback!
Success for @CroftonAcademy Year 9’s this evening with two wins on the football pitch. Our Year 9 girls won 3-1 against Minsthorpe in the County Cup whilst the Year 9 boys team beat Kettlethorpe 5-2 in the Wakefield Cup!
We’re back with over forty students enjoying extra-curricular football club and a Year 7 fixture on the grass! ⚽️
Contrary to our previous post, dodgeball club is ON this Friday!
We’re back with a busy week, particularly in terms of fixtures!
Next week’s extra-curricular programme ⬇️.
An absolutely fantastic sports day today! Our students’ conduct was outstanding with all activities contested in fantastic spirit!
Congratulations to our 2026/27 winners…
Year 7 - 7EOU 🏆
Year 8 - 8HBA 🏆
Year 9 - 9DWI 🏆
Forget about the England result, we’ve got it all going on here today @CroftonAcademy with our annual sports day! It’s a great atmosphere and Mr Edwards has got the music pumpin’ and the crowd dancing already. Let the competition begin! #WeAreCrofton
Fantastic day at the Rob Burrow Memorial at @AiredaleAcad. Well done to all our students for their amazing attitude and fighting spirit!
Congratulations to our Year 8 boys who were champions and our Men and Women of Steel Reid, Lainey, Rowan, Emily, Archie and Darcie!
Fantastic day at the Wakefield Athletics Championships! Behaviour and attitude from all students was outstanding. We had some great results including our Year 8 girls who retained their gold medal in the 4 x 100 metre relay! 🥇























