Heart Education Trust

A Multi Academy Trust established in 2013 for schools in Norwich and Norfolk.

Young Journalist Academy – Inspirational Athlete visits Valley Primary Academy

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Inspirational Athlete visits Valley Primary Academy

Ezekiel Ewulo is a long jump champion who travels all over England to inspire children to lead a healthy and active life working for ‘Sports For Champions’. Valley Primary school in Norwich was lucky enough to be one of those visited on Thursday. As part of the school visit, every class took part in a sponsored event. The £740 raised by Valley will go towards the school PE department and assisting aspiring athletes.

Valley children were able to ask him lots of questions. Marlie, a Year 5 pupil asked what had inspired him to be an Athlete?

‘I’ve always loved sports and I watched athletes on the television.’ Ezekiel replied.

Seb, also in Year 5, asked if he did any other activities other than long jump.

‘I do not have enough time to do any other sports because of all the training I do.’ Explained Ezekiel.

For the full article, please visit:-

http://youngjournalistacademy.com/inspirational-athlete-visits-norfolk-school/

Education Endowment Foundation and the Young Journalist Academy

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Two of our academies, Heartsease Primary Academy and Valley Primary Academy, have been selected by the Education Endowment Foundation to take part in a research project with the Young Journalist Academy

The project aims to develop Year 5 pupils’ writing by involving them in journalism. The project begins by setting up a ‘newsroom’ and pupils are invited to apply for roles through a written application and a formal interview. Up to 15 pupils are selected to take on editorial roles, but all pupils are involved in writing newspaper articles, radio production and video journalism. Pupils are involved at every stage of the process. Throughout the year there is an emphasis on publishing content, which provides an authentic purpose and audience for writing and can encourage pupils to share, revise and edit their work.

Over the course of a year, two journalists come to the school eight times to work alongside pupils and teachers in leading the project.. Between the visits by the journalists, the teacher and pupils selected to take on editorial roles can continue to engage with the project. For example, they can send content that they produce to the organisation delivering the project, who can publish it on their website, which has a monthly audience of over 20,000 visitors.

The links below will take you directly to the work published by two of our Valley Primary Academy pupils!

 

http://youngjournalistacademy.com/the-elf-invasion

http://youngjournalistacademy.com/could-you-run-a-mile-every-day%E2%80%8B/

 

The HEART Education Trust hosts event for schools trained in Read Write Inc. Phonics.

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The Trust is proud to announce that its latest Ofsted-graded “good” school, Henderson Green Primary, has been selected as the venue for a free event open to Norfolk schools that have received Read Write Inc. Phonics training.

To book your place, please visit:

https://ruthmiskin.com/en/training-event/76/49403/

 

Venue: Henderson Green Primary Academy, Earlham Grove, Norwich, NR5 8DX

Date: Wednesday 13 Mar 2019

Time: 9am – 12pm

 

 

 

Remarkable turnaround at village primary tagged ‘pretty awesome’ by pupils

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A village primary school has come on in leaps and bounds to achieve a clutch of classroom ‘goods’ from Ofsted.

The body that sets teaching standards liked what it saw when it visited Lingwood Primary Academy, near Acle.

It said the school had rapidly improved since joining the Heart Education Trust three years ago when it was working itself out of special measures.

In the report there was praise for the headteacher Alexandra Burrell and her senior leaders who shared the trust’s ambition for pupils to achieve highly.

It said the school was ‘good’ in all five main areas as well as overall.

To read the full article, head to:-

https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/education/lingwood-pupils-meet-david-walliams-at-birmingham-awards-show-1-5720640

Henderson Green Primary to Join the Trust

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The Secretary of State for Education has signed the Academy Order for Henderson Green Primary School to join The HEART Education Trust. The School, Trust, Local Authority and DfE are working towards a 1 April 2016 target conversion date.  The Trust is very excited to be welcoming its third academy on board.

A consultation document in relation to the conversion will be published soon.