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An author and an artist from John O'Gaunt School in Hungerford are among top nature writers and wildlife artists to collaborate on a beautiful new book to save the nation's birds. Jonathan Pomroy, former JOG student and one of the best wildlife and landscape artists in
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By Jill Dando News A whopping 1800 ‘well done’ certificates have been sent out to inspirational hardworking students at an inspirational Academy since Lockdown began. Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare have praised 641 of the students who have received 1 or more certificates from their teachers since the start
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By Jill Dando News An Academy is to receive a cash injection of nearly one million pounds to provide state-of-the art facilities, upgrading their campus. The brilliant Worle Community School Academy in North Somerset will have retractable seating for over 300 students by September. This sees WCSA having one of
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By Joshua, 14, Sports Editor, Jill Dando News A high-flying football player assistant manager was the latest in the line of world figures to have been interviewed by young reporters aged eight to 16 during Covid-19. The 25 student Jill Dando TV reporters from schools in The Priory Learning Trust
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By Jill Dando News Anya Butler of The King Alfred School Academy in Somerset won a place at the University of Oxford Study to Experimental Psychology. She came in the top 5% in the British Biology Olympiad run by the Royal Society of Biology this year. Then she crowned her
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By Jill Dando News ‘FUCHSIA’ meets in the community-based Nightjar Pub to support dozens of people with teas and coffees, support and encouragement. They want to tell Weston-super-Mare and Worle residents that they are still available to support people during these tough times, even when face to face meetings are
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by Jill Dando News The St Anne’s Church Academy in Weston-super-Mare is the first school in North Somerset to receive the highly prized Social School Award Now their award-winning social media work is to be shared with Castle Batch Primary School Academy, which is also part of The Priory
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By Jill Dando news The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset saw dozens of Year 10 students return to enjoy lessons as facilities partially re-opened. They had 90% of students in as well as the vulnerable and key worker students. Students enjoyed lessons in the core subjects lasting around
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By Jill Dando News The children and teachers at Pawlett Primary School Academy near Bridgwater in Somerset, are creatively adapting their learning across the curriculum including maths and English to take place in their spectacular grounds - whatever the weather. The school has altered its learning to embrace the outdoors,
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by Jill Dando News The St Anne’s Church Academy Pupils in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset excitedly got their green fingers to work in the picturesque school gardens. The pupils have returned happy and delighted to be back at school after the few months break. The St Anne’s Church Academy Gardening
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by Jill Dando News Ashcombe Primary School in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset is now running a What Does Love Look Like?' REAL project for its pupils and their families. Families have been sending in amazing examples of love, compassion and kindness in the community during the coronavirus crisis. The school will
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By Jill Dando News reporters A NASA astronaut, World Cup winners, a Messi and Ronaldo training expert and BAFTA and OSCAR winners are among a host of world figures who have been interviewed by reporters aged 8 to 16 during Covid19. The 25 student Jill Dando TV reporters from schools
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Over the past decade, we’ve seen a considerable change in how people view mental health problems. We’re starting to recognise that people’s mental health is as important as our physical health. But we’ve also seen a dramatic increase in students with mental health problems. Whether this
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Exclusive by Good News Post Joy Grimsby, The Priory Learning Trust (TPLT) teaching assistant, is helping nurses at Nightingale Hospital in Bristol during Covid-19. Nursing staff found they cannot communicate when wearing PPE so needed a way to communicate to each other through sign language – so they turned to Joy,
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UK supermarkets now have access to a trolley cleaning machine that kills off COVID-19 Hundreds of supermarkets in Germany are using the new drive-thru tool, with the nation seeing one of the lowest coronavirus rates in the world. Now Clean Trolley, a new drive-thru has brought it to Britain. The
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In what is one of the best good news stories of the year during the miserable Covid-19 crisis, Colonel Tom Moore who single-handedly raised £33 million for NHS charities is to be knighted by the Queen. The retired army Captain, aimed to raise 1,000 for NHS charities by doing