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By Good News Post reporter Kiera Shoemake, 18 St Anne’s Church Academy’s latest staff member is Maggie the new school therapy dog. The excellent weston-super-Mare primary school in Somerset will be welcoming their four-legged friend in September. During the lockdown, Mrs Few adopted the five-month beautiful white and
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By Jill Dando News Students Olivia Finch and Jack Clark of WCSA interviewed Somerset’s Weston super Mare MP John Penrose. They covered issues on climate change and associated problems accelerated by COVID-19. Both the students have years of experience of interviewing, despite their age of 15. Olivia was one
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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 Olivia, 15, and Jack, 15, Jill Dando News In 2013 Belinda Bradley left Worle Community School Academy in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset. Within just a few years she had campaigned against the biggest digital force in the world and, against all the odds, won the battle. Now Google Maps have introduced
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By Olivia, 15, Jill Dando News Worle Community School Academy has been named one of the top performing Hegarty Maths schools in the country, ranking in the top 10% for the amount of videos watched by their students. The official title of ‘Hegarty Maths Super School’ was awarded after a
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By Jill Dando News Former rugby star Jake Caulfield is back at Priory Community School Academy after training to be a teacher at The Priory Learning Trust in Somerset Jake is current Head Coach at North Petherton RFU and has played rugby for England and Ireland, as well as Bath
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Story and photo by Jill Dando News Jack Clark is the Greta Thunberg of Worle Community School Academy in Somerset where this week he was crowned Head Boy. He has continued to lead 20 students in the Climate Justice Revolution Group he set up even during the COVID-19 lockdown, driving
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By Jill Dando News Dan Jones is also a speaker at some of the globe’s biggest Wi-Fi events and helps organisations to get the best quality Wi-Fi in the world. The highflying Wi-Fi IT genius left Worle Community School Academy in Worl, Weston-super-Mare 2002, and has worked at London’
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An author and an artist from John O'Gaunt School in Hungerford are among top nature writers and wildlife artists to collaborate on a beautiful new book to save the nation's birds. Jonathan Pomroy, former JOG student and one of the best wildlife and landscape artists in
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By Jill Dando News A whopping 1800 ‘well done’ certificates have been sent out to inspirational hardworking students at an inspirational Academy since Lockdown began. Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare have praised 641 of the students who have received 1 or more certificates from their teachers since the start
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By Jill Dando News An Academy is to receive a cash injection of nearly one million pounds to provide state-of-the art facilities, upgrading their campus. The brilliant Worle Community School Academy in North Somerset will have retractable seating for over 300 students by September. This sees WCSA having one of
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By Joshua, 14, Sports Editor, Jill Dando News A high-flying football player assistant manager was the latest in the line of world figures to have been interviewed by young reporters aged eight to 16 during Covid-19. The 25 student Jill Dando TV reporters from schools in The Priory Learning Trust
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By Jill Dando News Anya Butler of The King Alfred School Academy in Somerset won a place at the University of Oxford Study to Experimental Psychology. She came in the top 5% in the British Biology Olympiad run by the Royal Society of Biology this year. Then she crowned her
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by Jill Dando News The St Anne’s Church Academy in Weston-super-Mare is the first school in North Somerset to receive the highly prized Social School Award Now their award-winning social media work is to be shared with Castle Batch Primary School Academy, which is also part of The Priory
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By Jill Dando News The children and teachers at Pawlett Primary School Academy near Bridgwater in Somerset, are creatively adapting their learning across the curriculum including maths and English to take place in their spectacular grounds - whatever the weather. The school has altered its learning to embrace the outdoors,
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by Jill Dando News The St Anne’s Church Academy Pupils in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset excitedly got their green fingers to work in the picturesque school gardens. The pupils have returned happy and delighted to be back at school after the few months break. The St Anne’s Church Academy Gardening