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By Jill Dando News BBC TV and radio Bristol have covered our story of The Priory Learning Trust teaching assistant who is helping Bristol nurses during Covid-19. Joy Grimsby, the higher level teaching assistant of Castle Batch Primary School Academy is helping nurses at Nightingale Hospital in Bristol. Her expertise
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By Jill Dando News reporters A future Fiona Bruce hosted 20 Jill Dando Television (JDTV) reporters aged 9 to 15 to quiz one of the world’s best women’s rugby players Olivia, 15, of Worle Community School Academy (WCSA), hosted the latest JDTV on Zoom to interview world-cup winning
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The excellent John O’Gaunt School in Hungerford is delighted to welcome Richard Hawthorne as its new Head of School. Following a rigorous interview process from a strong field of candidates in March this year, John O’Gaunt School in Hungerford and Excalibur Academies Trust is pleased to announce that
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BBC TV is to cover the Good News Post story of Joy the primary school Higher Level Teaching Assistant who is helping nurses during Covid-19. Joy Grimsby is helping a Bristol hospital staff to communicate through sign language to each other whilst wearing PPE. The higher level teaching assistant of
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By Liam Drury and Jill Dando News Superb Shannon used chalk and her garden to create an amazing picture during lockdown, getting her inspiration from a t-shirt she owns. The student from the brilliant Priory Community School Academy (PCSA) in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset showed incredible innovation and creativity. Head of Creative
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The head of The King Alfred School Academy's Geography Centre of Excellence in Highbridge, Somerset has won a prestigious award for her national and international work in geography education. Catherine Owen was awarded the highly prized Outstanding Service Diploma by the Geographical Association after over 10 years of
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By Liam Drury and Jill Dando News Eve Croxford is on fast track to a top world career in conservation. The former The King Alfred School Academy student has hit great heights after leaving the Somerset school five years ago. She didn’t achieve any A grades at GCSE level
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By Jill Dando News Dozens of students and staff at an Academy Trust have now made 3500 face masks and are on their way to making 100 PPE scrubs and sets for the NHS and care homes. The schools of the Priory Learning Trust (TPLT) in Somerset have rallied together
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Two schools, students, parents and the community have been helping NHS nurses, carers and frontline staff fight Covid-19 by coming together to make urgent PPE including face visors. In an amazing community partnership and show of support for the NHS and workers during the coronavirus crisis, John O’ Gaunt and
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Story and photos by Jill Dando News Wonderful Jill Dando reporters aged 9 to 15 interview senior UK journalists with nearly 100 years of experience between them The reporters from schools in The Priory Learning Trust alongside Ashcombe Primary School asked a range of questions via Zoom over two 40-minute
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The year 2019 marked a turning point for climate change advocacy. Organisations such as Extinction Rebellion and people like Greta Thunberg had the world focused on their every move. But what can we do to help and what exactly is the dream solution? Over the last few months we’ve
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By Jill Dando News Bear Grylls has praised Queen’s Scout Lizzie Harvey as the big-hearted English teacher missed her Easter wedding and instead is helping thousands of those affected by Covid19. Lizzie is using skills learned at The King Alfred School Academy (TKASA) in Somerset and as a school-based
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The schools of The Priory Learning Trust have already made thousands of masks for health workers across the region with the help of donating local businesses. Now, thanks to the generosity of local Somerset residents, they are making Scrubs for PPE as a further help in the fight against coronavirus.
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A Weston primary school Higher Level Teaching Assistant is helping a Bristol hospital staff to communicate through sign language to each other whilst wearing PPE. Joy Grimsby of Castle Batch Primary School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset is helping nurses at Nightingale Hospital in Bristol, and her expertise Makaton sign language
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The cadets have this week sent birthday cards, poems and letters to Captain Tom Moore, the incredible WW2 veteran who is celebrating his 100th birthday today after raising £30 million for the NHS. They are all members of Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge Sea Cadets in Somerset. The youngsters, some who attend
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As everyone reading this should know, our country is experiencing something tough and scary. - the Coronavirus crisis. As a result of this, we as pupils are having to work from home. Sometimes I find this very hard to work in the same place every single day with none of