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By Rosie Hedges, 10, Jill Dando News Correspondent 2023 is the year when the top rugby premiership was taken over by Weston-super-Mare rugby players. In a remarkable flurry of success, three players are thriving in the top British leagues. Priory Community School Academy (PCSA) and Hornets Rugby Club have had
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By Filip, 9, Jill Dando News Correspondent, Ashcombe Primary School Weston café owner, David, published a book called Sam the Quarry Fox. Sam the Quarry Fox, which was published during the covid pandemic, features photos by David ZV Lewis and text by Angela MW Lewis. You can purchase this book
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By Oscar, 13, Music Correspondent, JIll Dando News @ WCSA It’s good news as the venue where Banksy made Dismaland world famous is to have a huge renovation for 2024. Banksy turned the Tropicana into a world famous location in Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, UK in 2015. Now it
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By Evie, age 12, Jill Dando News @ PCSA Students from Priory Community School Academy weston-super-Mare, Somerset, were praised for their successes during a marvellous night of celebrations at the Winter Gardens in the town. The Academy gave awards for excellence and hard work in areas including sport, maths, English, science,
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Story and photos by Zoe 15 and Grace 14, Jill Dando News @ TKASA The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset has launched their brand new expanded Preloved Uniform and Books Store. The opening of the store follows the launch of their Preloved Prom Store which has proven very successful
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By Jill Dando News Friends and family of an “outstanding, kind, happy, polite and perfect” student who died have launched a project to set up a subsidised café and restaurant opposite the Bristol Royal infirmary in her memory The brilliant Evie, 16, passed her GCSEs at Worle Community School Academy
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By Oliver, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent @ WCSA Brilliant Little Learners learn tips from Avon Fire and Rescue. The Little Learners from St. Anne’s Church Academy, located in the West Wick site weston-super-Mare, Somerset, received a visit from the Red Watch. They worked together to come up with questions
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By Amy, 14, Jill Dando News Correspondent @ PCSA Schools are looking for heroes - help us to find them! Schools across The Priory Learning Trust in Somerset want to find students who go the extra mile to make the world a better place, who show incredible kindness, character or heroism.
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By Lelia, aged 9, and team of Jill Dando News reporters (live at the scene) (Photo by Luke, 9) St Anne’s Church Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset young Addison dreams to be a big star actor. Not only that but she is raising money for charities that help to people
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By Oliver, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent Over the weekend, the Stars of Time comic con took place in Weston-super-Mare's Tropicana - a hub for amazing events and exhibitions such as SEE MONSTER and Bansky's Dismaland. Visitors to the Somerset venue got the privilege of meeting
Culture
By Zoe, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent All of the students (Year 7-13) at The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset are in the cast of the school production Sister Act which will be performed next year. The show in Cardiff was phenomenal and the whole cast was brilliant.
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By Ellise Hollie Hayward, 21, Disabilities Correspondent, Jill Dando News Their mission statement is to “enable personal achievement and progression by developing essential skills and self-confidence through learning, living and work. Our values are opportunity, choice and respect. They fulfil their mission statement by offering supported living services, enabling services,
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By Grace, 11, Jill Dando News Correspondent Every term, big hearted students volunteer to spend their time with local people living with Dementia. At the Tamar Wellness Centre, run by Alliance Homes, customers enjoy sessions at the day care centre and young people have been adding real entertainment and joy.
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By JIll Dando News The inspirational Ellise, 21, Disabilities Correspondent for Jill Dando News and the Good News Post is touring schools across the UK with her amazing life-changing story and message. Ellise, who has overcome Celebral Palsy to become a superb motivational speaker, was this morning at The King
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By Grace, 13, Jill Dando News Some 15 students from The King Alfred School an Academy’s Sixth Form in Highbridge, Somerset took part in the Senior Maths Challenge this week – the first time Sixth Form students have been entered for a number of years. The 90 minute challenge involved
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By Josh Keyes, 17, Jill Dando News Top world footballer Raheem Sterling is inspiring on and off the pitch. In conjunction with the Raheem Sterling Foundation, talkSPORT & News UK, Raheem Sterling Broadcast Academy is back for a second season. It has a new cohort of young people from Manchester