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By Jack (Year 9) and Florence (Year 8) The 67 students from one school are now published writers after huge success in a National Poetry competition. Year 9 students from The King Alfred School Academy (TKASA) in Highbridge, Somerset entered a poetry competition run by national company Young Writers in
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By Jill Dando News The brilliant Virginia in Year 10 at Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, contacted Principal Jacqui Scott to say that she would like to help the community. Then she singlehandedly wrapped 15 boxes of goodies for Easter and delivered them to the local St Peter’
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By Amy, 12, Jill DANDO NewsLeading marketing, media and technology company Ascot Group celebrated the opening of their new offices in Worle. VIPs, business leaders, customers and suppliers enjoyed the tour and reception with refreshments as part of the opening. The Mayor of Weston-Super-Mare, Councillor James Clayton, attended the event.
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By Charlotte and Eleanor, Year 10, The King Alfred School Academy, Jill Dando News Amazing Emily is officially one of Britain’s best young mathematicians after shining at elite maths gatherings at Oxford and Cambridge. The King Alfred School Academy student won a place alongside the 59 other best women
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By Jill Dando News One of Britain’s biggest space experts wowed student astronomers with an excellent talk on the sun, moon and stars. Dr Robert Massey the Deputy Director of the Royal Astronomical Society visited Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. He further inspired the students with sensational
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By Jill Dando News A Jill Dando news story about award-winning chefs has been covered by the Media. The story by Somerset County Gazette and Bridgwater Mercury showed how the brilliant students from The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset excelled in the Rotary Southern Region Young Chef Final.
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By Jill Dando News Jill Dando good news reporters have seen a TV’s Apprentice style Boardroom in a state-of-the-art HQ while getting top tips from cutting-edge business leaders. The reporters aged 11 to 14 at Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare Somerset were invited to the Ascot Group expansion
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By Jill Dando News A Gold Medal winning Paralympic Champion who has scaled Kilimanjaro on his hands and knees has inspired hundreds of pupils at a school. The incredible Aaron Phipps visited St Anne’s Church Academy, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset to tell them that anything really is possible. He did his
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By Jill Dando News Two young cookery students from The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset have excelled in the Rotary Southern Region Young Chef Final. Robert Dowell finished runner up with Poppy Mackay in fourth with a judges ‘commendation award’ in the regional Rotary finals in Hampshire. There
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Story and photo by Jill Dando News Thomas, 16, of Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset is officially one of Britain’s best mathematicians. To achieve full marks in the competition is exceptionally rare, with only a few students doing so nationally each year. Thomas’ achievement follows his string
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By Jill Dando News Incredible students at Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset have been winning Gold, Silver and Bronze in The UK Mathematics Trust awards. Thomas, 15, achieved a stunning full marks in the Intermediate Challenge competition and will go forward to the prestigious Maclaurin Olympiad. Out of
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By Jill Dando News The incredible Museum of the Moon' exhibition uses NASA imagery to recreate an amazingly realistic impression of the moon's surface. It is now touring the UK and is currently at St Mary Magdalene Church in Taunton, Somerset before moving on to Northwich, Cheshire
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By Jill Dando News Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset have been completely overwhelmed with donations from students, families and staff for a collection for Ukraine. The photo shows the school staff room which has been the central point for the collection at WCSA. Full story to follow from
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Poppy and Robert of The King Alfred School Academy in highbridge, Somerset have been busy preparing for a big chef of the year final. Full story to follow from Jill Dando News.
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By Jill Dando News Future neuroscientist Kira, 13, is over the moon after winning an incredible unique world Oxbridge scholarship. Kira, a Year 9 student from Worle Community School Academy in Weson-super-Mare, is delighted after schooling a unique Oxford and Cambridge universities scholarship. It will be paid in full by
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By Dawson, 15 Taj, 16, a Year 12 student at The King Alfred Academy (TKASA) in Highbridge, Somerset, is heading to a prestigious summer school at Harvard University. TKASA Sixth Form has a 100% pass rate, with 80% going to Russell Group Universities, and increasing numbers heading to Cambridge and