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By Jill Dando News The schools of the Priory Learning Trust (TPLT) across Weston-super-Mare, Highbridge in Burnham and other parts of Somerset are this year helping The MPS Society. The charity provides brilliant support to families affected by rare genetic conditions. They raise money and awareness of these conditions through
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By Good News Post reporter Three high-flying students returned to welcome record numbers that started back at one of Britain’s best school-based sixth forms The King Alfred School Academy Sixth Form in Highbridge started back this week with a record number of 180 students - including six from abroad.
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An amazing primary school is hosting preschool children and their parents for fun socially distanced ‘meet the teacher’ events - after teacher home visits were stopped by COVID-19. St Anne’s Church Academy are instead inviting children and their parents in for individual sessions of activities. This week, Elodie was
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By Jill Dando News Our Environment Editor, Jack, 15, is newly crowned Head Boy at the brilliant Worle Community School Academy, is taking his fellow eco students into primary schools to set up green teams. The high-flying Academy is working with primary schools across Weston-super-Mare and Worle in Somerset to
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By Jill Dando News St Anne’s Church Academy have welcomed back hundreds of their amazing pupils. The excellent primary school in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, showed off their schools to a watching TV audience. Headteacher Emma Hardy Smith told ITV how the children were so excited to be back. Meanwhile parents
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There were lots of smiles and excitement as schools returned back after lockdown. The King Alfred School Academy in Somerset was one such school which today celebrated the arrival of 250 new Year 7s. They enjoyed a host of fun welcome activities, meeting new friends and their teachers and staff.
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Story and photo by Olivia, 15, and Joel, 12, Jill Dando News Worle Community School Academy celebrated the achievements of every single student, in a year when the coronavirus lockdown abolished GCSE exams for the first time. The high-flying Academy saw 57 Grade 9s across the school, and 124 Grade
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Story and photos by Joel, 12, Jill Dando News The King Alfred School Academy in Somerset celebrated the achievements of every single student, in a year when lockdown saw GCSE exams cancelled for the first time. This years results follow an excellent two years for TKASA since being led by
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By Jill Dando News Anya Butler of The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset achieved 3 A* grades to win her “dream” place at the University of Oxford Study to Experimental Psychology. Speaking today, Anya 18, said: “I am totally speechless and I have my place at Oxford Uni
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By Jill Dando News The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset has again produced excellent A Level results, with over 75% achieving A*-C grades, two years after its new leadership took the reins. TKASA’s popular sixth form has now doubled in size due to its success and
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By Good News Reporter, Shane, 13, At the start of lockdown the weather was sunny and very hot and it seemed to go on and on. I sat outside everyday and listened to the birds singing with tunes that I had never really heard before. Everything seemed so peaceful with
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By Joel, 12, Jill Dando News Will Cooper, aged 15, has just left Worle Community School Academy after a fabulous five years. Incredibly he started taking photos at the age of 11, and encouraged by the school, he has now stacked up hundreds of photo shoots, not only in football
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Story and photo by Jill Dando News Enthusiastic Olivia Finch, 15, of Worle Community School Academy (WCSA) was made Head Girl after four outstanding years at the high achieving and caring Academy. Olivia was part of the first group of students to set up the Jill Dando News Centre in
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The latest The Post, packed full of good news is going out across shops and places in a town and county. Written by Jill Dando reporters aged 8 to 18, it features excellent stories from schools and the community, and to cheer people up. Thousands of copies are going out
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An Academy is working with primary schools across Weston and Worle in Somerset. to inspire future Greta Thunbergs and set up ‘Green Teams’ to help the community and environment. Jack Clark, 15, of Worle Community School Academy will take his fellow eco students into primary schools to set up green
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By Jill Dando News Award-winning Worle Community School Academy raised nearly £3000 for The Priory Learning Trust Charity of the year In Charley’s Memory. The popular Weston-super-Mare Academy in Somerset also raised £588.07 for Sport Relief and £463.60 for Children In Need by sharing the money raised