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By Jill Dando News A brain tumour survivor, aged 7, is to raise world spirits and boost people’s mental wellbeing at Easter with the release of her third Charity single. The inspirational Lyra Cole from Somerset is releasing a cover of Toy Story’s ‘You’ve got a friend
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By Jill Dando News Jacob Profitt is now a teacher of geography and sociology at The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset, after a year of training with The Priory Learning Trust. Jacob completed the year as a School Direct trainee with TPLT last September and immediately started work
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By Jill Dando News Two former students at The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset returned back to ‘cut the ribbon’ to mark the unveiling of a 40-foot wall of sporting greats that has been praised across the world. Footballer Bradley Ash returned along with Shannon to view the
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By Jill Dando News A brain tumour survivor, aged 7, is to raise world spirits and boost people’s mental wellbeing at Easter with the release of her third Charity single. The inspirational Lyra Cole from Somerset is releasing a cover of Toy Story’s ‘You’ve got a friend
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By Jill Dando News The King Alfred School Academy Sixth Form A Level Psychology students in Highbridge, Somerset were chosen ahead of sixth forms across the country for an important research programme at Exeter University. They will be acting as research assistants in a groundbreaking study involving younger students in
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By Jill Dando News History teacher Nigel Smith has been unmasked as the first ever The Masked Teacher competition winner in The King Alfred School Academy recreation of hit TV show ‘The Masked Singer’. Nigel belted out the tunes World in Motion by New Order and Roar by Katy Perry
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By Jill Dando News Three students from The King Alfred School Academy have received firm offers to study at Cambridge and Oxford universities next year, with other students receiving offers from Cardiff, St Andrews, Queen’s in Belfast, King's College in London, Durham, and Sheffield. Also on the
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By Jill Dando News Students, parents, carers, staff and the community have dropped huge amounts of food and items to The King Alfred School Academy, in Highbridge, Somerset. Students and staff have been gathering the items at the school gates, and it is now in quarantine ready for delivery to
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By Jill Dando News The King Alfred Academy in Highbridge, Somerset, has launched its ‘Reverse Advent’ and ‘12 Days of Christmas’ campaigns. The campaigns encourage students to donate much needed food and drink to the local Foodbank and every evening showcase a students' talent via video. This is the
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By Jill Dando News The Year 10 choir at The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset, sang a host of Christmas hits including White Christmas and Rocking around the Christmas Tree, before the lights were switched on their 14-foot tree. Principal Nathan Jenkins said: “It was lovely to be
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By Jill Dando News Record numbers of students from The King Alfred School Academy have applied for Cambridge and Oxford universities, spurred on by rising numbers of those applying at the sixth form in recent years. Now they are on a Masterclass Programme designed by the University of Cambridge to
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By Samara, Good News Post reporter Brilliant Jack Millier, 17, Student Union President at The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset, has been awarded a place at the world-famous Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama to study BMus (Hons) in Composition. Jack’s feat is all the most
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By Jill Dando News The kind-hearted The King Alfred School Academy students students in Highbridge made the cardboard boxes in their design technology lessons to give to local key workers, parents or relatives who are keyworkers and helpers in the community. Local sweet shop, Burnham’s Sweet Shack, helped provide
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By Jill Dando News The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset will showcase its impressive campus and inspirational culture via 16 short state-of-the-art videos. The videos, using drones, and other high-tech gear, will allow families, parents and carers to see just why the academy is proving so popular. It
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Stacey Leatherby of The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset has been delivering food parcels to families for months. Along with fellow staff member Suzanne Lawrence, Stacey collects weekly donations from local supermarkets and takes them to grateful local families. She signed up for the FareShare scheme 18 months
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(By Jill Dando News) An outstanding student has secured a place on a prestigious fast-track accountancy programme. Jack Murphy, pictured left with other brilliant students at the sixth form of The King Alfred School Academy, in Somerset will take up a place on the highly prized Bishop Fleming Accountancy programme.