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Drama students at King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge have performed the first of several performances of their summer show this week to a packed audience. Based on the music of Queen, ‘We Will Rock You’ is set 300 years in the future in a futuristic and corporate world. The
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By Sasha. 15, Jill Dando News Record numbers of people visited The King Alfred School Academy Sixth Form at its open morning. There was an incredible buzz as current students and staff showed round the prospective students and their families. TKASA Sixth Form in Highbridge, Somerset enjoys excellent results, inspirational
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By Jill Dando News James Smith took part in Sunday’s London Marathon to raise vital funds for a Burnham and Highbridge charity in Somerset that provides mental health support. James, a former The King Alfred School Academy student in Highbridge, took on the 26.2-mile challenge to raise funds
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By Juozas and Kieran, 12, Jill Dando News Students from across The Priory Learning Trust were inspired by the creators behind the innovative new project SEE MONSTER which has chosen Weston-Super-Mare as it's home. SEE MONSTER is like nothing ever seen before – and it chose Weston as it’
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By Jill Dando News Two students who represented Britain at COP26 alongside Prince William and Sir David Attenborough are now inspiring younger ones at one of the country’s best sixth forms. Jack Clark and Olivia Finch featured on national TV news in Glasgow COP26 in November shortly after leaving
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Exclusive, by Oliver, 12 and Jake, 12, Jill Dando News An MP at the centre of news headlines will give an exclusive interview to Jill Dando News on Thursday - thanks to 12 year old reporter Oliver. Oliver, 12, of Worle Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset secured the interview
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By Jill Dando News An expanding mental health charity will benefit from walkers trekking up one of Britain’s highest mountains. The walkers are doing the climb to raise funds for Burnham-on-Sea-based mental health charity In Charley’s Memory and are aiming for a sunrise summit. The Somerset charity has
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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 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 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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By Lexie 11, Isabella, 11 England’s most decorated blind footballer, Darren Harris, shared experiences, tips and positivity, success and happiness in another phenomenal interview for Jill Dando News. Football achievements aside, Darren is also a number 1 bestselling author, motivational speaker and transformational coach: He took this direction following
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By Jill Dando News Students at The King Alfred School Academ thrived in the cookery competition organised by the Rotary Club of Burnham-on-Sea, in Somerset. Robert Dowell (Y10) pictured above, finished first with Poppy Mackay (Y9) in second place. Both will go to the Southwest stage of the national Young
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By Jill Dando News A high-flying university medical student is to return to mentor current students at her former school-based sixth form Outstanding Sophie Fenegan (pictured left) is thriving as a medical student at the University of Exeter. She is conducting brain dissections, community placements at a brain injury centre
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By Jill Dando News Students are performing their amazing musical talents for their school’s big Christmas charity events Students at The King Alfred School Academy https://www.tkasa.org.uk in Highbridge, Somerset have been performing Christmas carols and songs via on YouTube as part of the charity spectacular.
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By Jill Dando News An academy has launched their charity "Reverse Advent" and "12 Days of Christmas" campaigns for the fourth year running The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset will see students perform a daily musical performance to be played on Sedgemoor FM. The
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By Jill Dando News The kind-hearted The King Alfred School Academy students students in Highbridge made the cardboard boxes in their design technology lessons to give to local key workers, parents or relatives who are keyworkers and helpers in the community. Local sweet shop, Burnham’s Sweet Shack, helped provide