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  Autumn 2021
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Welcome
The last term has in so many ways been the most demanding yet. I had the privilege of spending quite a lot of time with colleagues at St Mary’s in Portbury. Fortunately St Mary’s hasn’t been hit too hard by COVID (in the way that other schools in our Trust really have), but even in a few weeks at St Mary’s we had several staff cases. The staff at the school were brilliant at keeping life as normal as possible for the pupils; the Nativity went ahead, the Christmas service in church is planned, carols have been switched outside to the playground and the Christmas Fair was replaced with a trail through the village.
This newsletter is full of examples of the things that you have been doing in our schools to make education both normal and wonderful for our pupils. I hope that you feel pride in the work that you have done and will be interested to see what others have been doing in their schools too. You are doing the most amazing job.
With best wishes,
Gary
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 | 03 Dec 2021 Congratulations to our Christmas Card Competition winners! Sam, George and Keeley from Flax Bourton CofE Primary School and Emily from the Whiteoak Academies. |
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 | 24 Nov 2021 Over 100 guests attended our Green themed LSP Business Breakfast held this morning at Backwell School. Headteacher, Jon Nunes, opened the breakfast and Gary Lewis, Chief Executive of the Lighthouse Schools Partnership, gave an update on the Trust’s target to become carbon neutra... |
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 We wish to congratulate and thank the following people for the contributions they have made to our Trust:
25 years' service
Linda Croshaw at High Down Juniors
Helen Clarke at Yatton Schools
Mark Hackeson at Yatton Schools
25 years' service and retiring
Phillip Okeden at Yatton Schools
20 years' service and retiring
Gregory Brees at Backwell School
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 | 22 Oct 2021 Lighthouse Schools Partnership has set an ambitious target to bring greenhouse gas emissions across the Trust to net zero by 2035, 15 years ahead of the Government’s target of 2050. |
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 | 02 Dec 2021 As a result of their on-going commitment to supporting the environment and recycling work, High Down Schools have been awarded the Viridor Cup from Portishead in Bloom for the best school composting initiative. |
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 | 03 Dec 2021 Eco teams across our three secondary schools Gordano, Backwell and Chew Valley have joined forces in working together towards achieving our target to bring greenhouse gas emissions across the Trust to net zero by 2035.A meeting was held in November with student representatives fro... |
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 | 09 Nov 2021 Congratulations to Year 6 pupil Tommy from Whitchurch Primary School who recently won the BBC Young Writers Competition! |
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 | 03 Dec 2021 Chew Valley School Year 9 pupil, Bluebell Powell, has won a competition to design a technical t-shirt for this year’s Chew Valley 10k and Virtual Chew Valley 10k. |
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 | 21 Sep 2021 Congratulations to Gordano Pupil Daniel Shorrock who secured and performed the role of Benji, in Priscilla Queen of The Desert. Daniel shared the role with one other actor and the two of them were the only child actors in an all adult cast.Daniel has already performed the role in Bath Theatre Ro... |
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 | 10 Dec 2021 Year 5 Portishead Primary pupils created some fabulous Lighthouse sculptures as part of their Design and Technology curriculum. |
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.jpg) | 10 Dec 2021 Teachers at St Mary's CE Primary School are celebrating the creative talents of their pupils by launching a virtual art gallery. |
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 | 01 Oct 2021 An exciting day of specialist Music Technologist took place in September for students at Backwell, Gordano and Chew Valley Secondary Schools. |
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 | 02 Nov 2021 Gordano School held their annual Careers Convention in October. This year the Convention was held over four venues within the school site. |
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 | 10 Dec 2021 We would love to hear from you if you can support any of our three secondary schools (Gordano, Backwell and Chew valley) in delivering careers talks, supporting a work experience placement, offering guidance and advice in your specialised field of work, or joining our business partnership... |
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 | 10 Dec 2021 Whitchurch Primary School Pupils loved meeting and learning about the animals they met from a recent visit from Chloe's Mobile Farm. |
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10 Dec 2021
Wraxall CE Primary School pupils took part in the annual '30 Days Wild' project, led by the Wildlife Trust. The children challenged themselves to complete the 30 challenges - making artwork, creating and exploring habitats, being at the heart of nature.
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 | 16 Nov 2021 Congratulations to Portishead School's EYFS Leader, Sam Blackmore-Squires, who completed the London Marathon and raised money for The Benjamin Pritchard Foundation. |
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.jpg) | 30 Nov 2021 Congratulations to Portishead School Business Manager, Debbie Stephens, who completed her BA in School Business Management through the Trust's Apprenticeship Levy. Debbie attended her graduation ceremony at Cheltenham Race Course along with fellow apprentices. |
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 | 25 Nov 2021 In sporting news, huge congratulations to High Down football teams who competed in some recent North Somerset tournaments. |
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 | 26 Oct 2021 Winford CofE Primary School fought hard to take the victory in the Chew Valley Cluster Football Tournament. |
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Congratulations to our Christmas Card Competition winners! Sam, George and Keeley from Flax Bourton CofE Primary School and Emily from the Whiteoak Academies. Fabulous, festive designs that bring lots of joy! @WhiteoakNailsea https://t.co/L1uKOsY0vK1 week ago Follow Thank you @STEMworksUK for our amazing workshops learning all about the sun as a source of energy. The children also applied their learning to make a working model using linkages and levers. #STEM https://t.co/tRoLyElnhh2 weeks ago Follow |
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