Burton Borough dance group steps into the spotlight

Elite Dance Group competed in The Great Big Dance Off competition in Birmingham
Action-packed weekend at outdoor adventure centre

Students from a Newport secondary school enjoyed an action-packed weekend on a trip to a county adventure centre. The Year 8 and 9 pupils from Burton Borough School travelled to PGL Boreatton Park in Baschurch, near Shrewsbury. More than 60 students travelled to the centre and took part in a variety of activities including a […]
Introducing our new chair of trustees…

Kevin Barton has more than 30 years of teaching experience
HLC students rock Theatre Severn with hit musical

We Will Rock You performance is a big his with the audiences
Award nomination for young fundraiser Tristan

New Road Academy student is nominated for the Young Fundraiser of the Year award at Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Record-breaking day at Lantern Academy

Pupils got to meet a 25-time record breaker on World Book Day – and tried to set some new world records of their own
School’s out for teachers – takeover day at Burton Borough

Students turned the tables on their teachers at Burton Borough School in Newport when they staged a ‘takeover day’. Staff stood aside to allow more than 70 students to take their place in key positions during an annual event designed to help boost leadership, management and decision-making skills. The process began last term when students […]
Lantern shines brightly with best-ever Ofsted inspection

Lantern Academy in Telford is celebrating the most successful Ofsted inspection in the school’s history. The Ketley Bank primary school was described as ‘happy and welcoming’ by inspectors who spent two days at the Yates Way site last month. They highlighted significant and rapid improvements which had been achieved through the unwavering dedication of staff […]
Student council members on fact-finding trip to Newport Guildhall

Newly-elected members of the student council at Burton Borough School have met with Newport Town Council for a fact-finding tour and discussion. President Alexander Bevington-King, vice president Freya Dunbar, communications officer Harry Delmanso, wellbeing officer Joe Paginton, diversity officer Kamari Rawlings, and charities officers Eleanor McGuire and Poppy Richards visited the council’s offices. Town clerk […]
Out of this world: HLC students off to NASA space camp

Two Telford secondary school students are quite literally being given the chance to reach for the stars after securing places at a NASA space camp in America. Harry Yeung and Esmae-Hope Morton from the Hadley Learning Community are jetting off to Hunstville, Alabama for six days from July 6-11, thanks to an innovative project to […]