The Government has announced today that Smithdon High School, part of the West Norfolk Academies Trust, is one of 50 schools and sixth form colleges on the Prime Minister’s transformative 10-year school rebuilding programme to level up opportunities for all.
Students, teachers and school staff at two of our schools were delighted to welcome a very special visitor through the gates during the last few days of term.
Thousands of schoolchildren across the West Norfolk Academies Trust took part in a charity fun run last week to raise money for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn’s COVID-19 Support Fund.
Pupils at one of our primary schools are enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to collaborate with one of Britain’s most popular children’s authors as part of an arts-based project to encourage poetry and literacy.
A West Norfolk artist has donated one of his pictures to help raise funds for our school festival to celebrate student achievement in completing an array of challenges.
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A group of Year 10 students at Springwood, part of the West Norfolk Academy Trust, have demonstrated how far their thirst for knowledge goes after presenting their higher projects to staff and school governors.
After the success of our first West Norfolk’s Got Talent competition last year, we decided to give pupils at our schools another chance to show off their performing skills, and once again the number and quality of entries was beyond anything we could have imagined.
This year’s BBC Springwatch programme will be closely watched by pupils at three of our schools that have close ties with the venue being used by Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and crew.
Year 7 science students at Marshland High, part of the West Norfolk Academies Trust, can teach every one of us a lesson about the power of trying your luck and being hopeful, after they wrote to legendary natural history Sir David Attenborough with a query about their studies – and received a handwritten reply.
There was a purple haze at Snettisham Primary School, part of the West Norfolk Academies Trust, when pupils dressed to support two charities which use the colour in their logos.
Pupils at Gaywood Primary, part of the West Norfolk Academies Trust, had the chance to quiz a top author when he made a special visit after reading a Tweet about books.
Pupils at West Lynn and Clenchwarton primary schools, both part of the West Norfolk Academies Trust, enjoyed a ‘mathstastic’ series of activities as part of the NSPCC’s Number Day.
