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By Jill Dando News Oliver Grant is thriving as a teacher at Worle Community School Academy in The Priory Learning Trust in Somerset just a few years after being inspired by his teachers at Priory Community School Academy. Oliver is also the beneficiary of a fruitful partnership with The Ogden
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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 Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, has been awarded the Foundation level of the British Council’s International School Award in recognition of its work to bring the world into the classroom. The award celebrates the achievements of schools that do exceptional work in international
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By Jill Dando News Big-hearted students, parents, carers, staff and the community have dropped huge amounts of food and items to Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-mare, Somerset, for Foodbank. This week Foodbank collected the items which totalled nearly 1000 kilos. Pictured is Principal Angelos Markoutsas with Head Girl, Ruby
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By Megan, Jill Dando News, aged 12 Spider-Man and other Blockbuster movie superheroes dominate our TV and cinema screens. But in a school in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, dozens of real heroes have been rewarded. Students have been rewarded for kindness, courage and more wonderful character traits and deeds in an glittering
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By Jill Dando News Lucy Kenchington Year 9, at Priory Community School Academy, in Weston super Mare, Somerset, won a £10 Amazon voucher for submitting a photo of herself firing an archer’s bow at a target. She beat off dozens of entries in the Christmas art and physics competition
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Jill Dando News Big hearted Jake Caulfield, Head of Year 9 at Priory Community School Academy, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset did a “Mo for a Bro” involving a physical challenge of completing 60km a week by running, walking or cycling. This week he shaved off his moustache and was delighted at
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By Tamsen, aged 13, of Priory Community School Academy, and Jill Dando News reporters Inspirational Jodi Parslow, aged 25, formerly of Priory Community School Academy (PCSA), in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset is now a Doctoral Researcher at King’s College London, looking at dementia and things that go wrong in the brain
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By Jill Dando News A student has been sharing how pets are keeping people positive during lockdown. Megan, aged 12, of Priory Community School Academy (PCSA), in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset said pets are wonderful animals that can really make people happy, especially if you are going through a tough time. In
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By Jill Dando News The brilliant Jude, Alfie, Elizabeth and Emilia of Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset are Students of the Week for their exceptional character and hard work. The ambitious academy praises students for brilliant work in their studies, as well as determination, kindness and other character
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By Tamsen, 12, of Jill Dando News Ruby Minty is now Head Girl and Tom Harding is Head Boy at Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. They are now rolling out a new reward system for students across the school, and plan other initiatives throughout the year. Ruby, who
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By Jill Dando News Jake Caulfield, Head of Year 9 at Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, has already raised over £725 and wants to raise the awareness for mental health in men. He is doing a “Mo for a Bro” and is currently doing a physical challenge of
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Makayla Nunn, aged 16, from Priory Community School Academy, has inspired tens of thousands of people globally with her story of coping with ME since the age of 8. She has raised £8000 for charity and is being taught via robot ‘Daz’ at PCSA. Now in her last year at