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Anglia’s Children’s Hospices

Great Yarmouth Charter Academy is celebrating its incredible fundraising efforts after raising a whopping £2,854.67 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) following an epic Santa Run that took place over the festive period.

The charity, which works to support families and care for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk hosts an annual Santa Run to raise vital funds for its cause and for yet another year, the brilliant students from Great Yarmouth Charter Academy put themselves through their paces to take part.

The academy is so dedicated to the cause that EACH’s annual Santa Run now forms part of the school’s House Competitions with students encouraged to take part to raise points for their House Team as well as money for the charity.

Everyone at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy is blown away by the continued generosity of its pupils and families and are delighted that so many of its students have been involved in such a cause.

We are incredibly grateful for the support from Great Yarmouth Charter Academy from their annual Santa runs. 84% of our money is from fundraising and donatinations. so this money is vital.

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Thetford Academy awarded £30k scholarship by University of Oxford

Excitement has been rife at Thetford Academy as Caroline Richards - a brilliant teacher who specialises in supporting students in their quest to attend the country’s most prestigious and competitive universities, was awarded a whopping £30k scholarship to further support the school’s students in this ambition.

Balliol College, who awarded the school the funding via the Gregson Teacher Scholarship, was extremely impressed with Thetford Academy’s ever-improving GCSE results alongside the school’s sixth form achieving its best-ever A-Level results in 2022. The college also acknowledged the great destinations the students at Thetford Academy and its adjoining Thomas Paine Sixth Form were already going on to attend as a result of the school’s brilliant careers team, and knew the extra funding would go on to support even more students to achieve their academic potential.

This is a really exciting opportunity for Thetford Academy and Thomas Paine Sixth Form; one which is only possible because of the strong position our school and sixth form is in. This funding will make a real difference to the provision we can provide when supporting our students from all year groups with their university aspirations. I’m really looking forward to working closely with Balliol College to help support our students.

MS RICHARDS