Two of our talented students, Charlotte G (Year 8) and Frankie P (Year 11), represented Mulberry Academy Bexhill at Eastbourne Literary Festival’s regional Poetry By Heart competition, reciting against students from schools across the county in front of judges connected to the national competition. Poetry By Heart is one of the country’s most respected school […]
Meet This Week’s Students of the Week Out of a year group of around 300, our year teams choose a handful who’ve done something brilliant, made a real turnaround, or been a genuine credit to the academy. This week, one from each year group. Academy Update, 18 September 2026 Year 7 Oriana W Year 7’s […]
Here’s this week’s Academy Update. It’s been a brilliant start to the year, and this week’s issue is full of it. Have a read, and as always, thank you for everything you do as part of our Mulberry Academy Bexhill community. Download here
Mulberry Academy Bexhill’s GCSE results confirm its strongest year yet, with 70% of students achieving a grade 4 or above in English and Maths, and 51% achieving a grade 5 or above. Both figures beat the latest national averages, 65.5% and 45.2% respectively, by some margin. This marks the fourth consecutive year of improvement for […]
On July 9th we were pleased to welcome close to 1,000 staff, students and parents as we filled the De La Warr Pavilion for our Celebration Evening, and it was a night that captured exactly why we do this work. From the moment the doors opened, the energy in the room was extraordinary. Our students […]
Chess: Two Teams, One Trophy and a Debut to Remember For the first time in the school’s history, Mulberry Academy Bexhill sent two teams to the Butler Cup, the county chess finals. As the only state school in the field, competing against a strong line-up of independent schools, there was nothing easy about the day. […]
Last Thursday, a group of our Year 10 Ceramics students got an experience that most artists spend years working toward: seeing their own work photographed professionally, in a proper studio setup, by someone who does this for museums and galleries for a living. It came about through an ongoing project with Flatlands Gallery here in […]
Last weekend, our Year 9 students laced up their boots, hoisted their rucksacks and headed out into the East Sussex countryside for their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award training expedition. Two days of walking, cooking and campcraft later, they came back tired, a little bit wiser and very much ready for what comes next. Out […]