Wellacre Academy

On Monday 6th February our two Go Karting teams qualified, 1st & 3rd for the regional finals of the British School Karting competition. Congratulations to those involved! We now look forward to success at the regional finals at 3 Sisters track in Wigan.

 On SLD3 we welcomed the team from STEGTA who provided some fantastic workshops for our Year 9 learners. The boys will shortly being taking their GCSE options and had the chance to learn about the opportunities engineering as a career provides as well as participate in some hands on activities including robotics, measurement and instrumentation and preparing and machining with a milling machine and lathe.

Salford and Trafford Engineering Group Training Association Chief Executive John Whitby formally opened their training centre based in Wellacres 6th Form on Thursday 15th December.  STEGTA have worked closely with the Wellacre over a number of years developing engineering opportunities for its learners.