Football Academy

The Thorpe Football Academy is a newly founded Football and Education programme for Sixth Form students at Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form.

The programme combines an elite level of football training and a high level of education in order to provide students with the opportunity to continue their academic, football and career development.

Through the programme students receive daily training from UEFA qualified coaches with years of experience working in professional academies alongside a varied and comprehensive game programmes against semi-professional and professional clubs as well as our own highly competitive league programme.

Following our first intake of students we are delighted with the take up of the Football Academy leading to our course being overwhelmingly oversubscribed, resulting in a fantastic first cohort of able footballers and hardworking students. Subscribing to our Sixth Form ethos of “Excellence for All”, we are delighted to support our students to reach the heights of their potential in both their footballing and academic endeavours. Moving into the future years, we are sure that this will only go from strength to strength as our nurturing and encouraging Sixth Form environment will push our students to the very top of their potential.

To ensure that all our students are able to reach their full academic potential we are delighted to announce that from the 2024-2025 academic year, all academic pathways within Thorpe St Andrew Sixth Form will be available to our students, including all A Level and vocational courses that we offer. This will make us one of very few Football and Education programmes in Norfolk that are able to offer both A Levels and a high level football programme.

Another exciting addition to our programme for the 2024-2025 academic year is the opening of our brand new Female Football Academy. Given the impressive nature of our female students already on the course and with our exemplary reputation for developing female football within Thorpe St Andrew High School and Sixth Form the opportunity to develop as a female footballer within our environment could not be stronger. The growth of the Women’s game both at home and abroad has been inspirational for all to see over the past few years and here at the Thorpe Football Academy we will provide the next generation of female footballers with the very best opportunities to make a mark and to continue the massive upwards trajectory of the women’s game.