News Blog
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Trust News Monday 19 May 2025 Change to Easter Term Dates for Spires Academy (2026) Revised Easter Holiday Dates for Spires Academy 2026
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Trust News Thursday 3 April 2025 Orion Education achieves Workplace Wellbeing Charter Accreditation We are proud to announce that Orion Education has been awarded the Workplace Wellbeing Charter Accreditation, recognising our ongoing commitment to the health and wellbeing of our employees. Workplace wellbeing is a fundamental priority for us, and this accreditation reflects our dedication to fostering a positive, supportive, and healthy work environment.
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Trust News Wednesday 2 April 2025 ORION EDUCATION APPROVED BY DfE TO OPEN THREE NEW SCHOOL BASED DAY NURSERIES We are delighted to announce that three Orion primary schools have been approved to open day nurseries as part of the new government’s drive to make nursey education more available to families.
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Trust News Friday 28 March 2025 Blenheim Primary School Maintains Good Ofsted Rating We are delighted to publish the most recent Ofsted report for Blenheim Primary School. The strength of the report reflects the hard work that pupils, teachers and leaders have put into the school. It's a delight to read and reflects the considerable progress that the school has made. We don't do what we do for these reports, but congratulations to everyone involved.
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Trust News Wednesday 26 March 2025 Annual Impact Report 2023-24 Our Annual Impact Report for 2023-24 is now available, browse the report and hear from our CEO on our progress and vision for the future.
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Trust News Friday 14 March 2025 Appointment of New Trustees to Orion Education Board Orion Education is excited to announce the appointment of two new Trustees to the Board.
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Trust News Thursday 27 February 2025 Appointment of New Primary Executive Principal Ravensworth Primary School announces appointment of new Executive Principal
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Trust News Friday 6 December 2024 Change to Term Dates 2025 - 26 Please note that there has been a change to the Inset Day in October 2025 which will now take place on Friday 10 October.
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Trust News Thursday 5 December 2024 Train to Teach with Orion Education Join our 1 year School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) Programme in partnership with Teach First and gain Qualified Teacher Status and a PGCE.
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Trust News Monday 25 November 2024 New Social Media Accounts
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Trust News Monday 25 November 2024 Orion All Staff Trust Conference 2024 In October, we hosted the Orion Education All Staff Trust Conference, a day filled with inspiration, celebration, and unity. View the highlights of the day here.
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Trust News Monday 25 November 2024 Orion Young Voices Choir In October, our all-staff trust conference was graced with an incredible collaboration between the legendary Heather Small MBE and our talented Orion Young Voices Choir. Together, they delivered a powerful rendition of Heather’s iconic anthem, Proud, leaving the audience inspired and uplifted.
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Trust News Thursday 19 September 2024 Fair School Admissions Award Orion Education has been awarded for its commitment to Fair School Admissions across its schools.
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Trust News Friday 13 September 2024 Term Dates 25-26 Term dates for our network of schools for 2025-26 are now confirmed.
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Trust News Monday 9 September 2024 Parent and Carer Autumn Newsletter - September 2024 Welcome back to Orion Education, and the new academic year. Our Autumn Newsletter is packed full of information about our summer building work, an introduction to new leaders and an update on IT and catering.
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Trust News Friday 30 August 2024 Orion Education Brand Launch We launched our new name and logo on Wednesday 28 August. The attached video highlights our mission and vision. Our values of Trust, Kindness and Endeavour remain the same.
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Sunday 21 January 2024 #Team23 Awards and Certificate Evening Wednesday 17 January 2024 we welcomed back to the Academy all of our Year 11 students who completed their education with us last year. This event enabled them to catch up with each other and compare what they have been doing for the past few months, catch up with their old teachers and collect the GCSE certificates that they hade worked so hard to achieve.
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Friday 16 June 2023 Transition Evening /i/video/Year_7_Transition_Evening_2023.mp4
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Thursday 15 June 2023 Kent Schools Media Challenge - Finalists Congratulations to Isaac Griffiths, Dylan Patel, Chloe Crowhurst, Cody Arnold, Ava Forbister and Billy Hayes whose podcast about online harm has been selected as a finalist for the Kent Schools Media Challenge. Use this link to listen to the podcast: https://youtu.be/rZLHEASmER8 Now it’s time to vote! The online public vote begins at 7am this Wednesday 14th June. The winning school will be the one with the most votes when the poll closes a week later at 5pm on Tuesday 20th June. Voting takes place at www.collaboratedigital.com/vote
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Thursday 1 December 2022 Christmas Concert Thursday 15 December 2022 (7-9pm)
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Thursday 1 December 2022 Donate a Book at Christmas
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Friday 26 August 2022 GCSE Results 2022 Students at Spires Academy have been collecting their GCSE and BTEC results today (Thursday 25 August). This is the first full programme of examinations since 2019.
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Wednesday 8 June 2022 Demonstrating Care Values for Health & Social Care “As part of their BTEC course, Year 10 Health and Social Care students organised arts and crafts activities for Year 7 students from St Nicholas School, Canterbury. As part of their Assignment, students demonstrated the core care values in health and social care, including effective communication, showing respect, preserving dignity and empowering and promoting independence. It was an enjoyable event for all concerned!”
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Monday 9 May 2022 Silver at the World Team Cup Ruben Harris has just helped the Great Britain Junior Team to win the silver medal at the World Team Cup. This is equivalent to the Davis Cup in wheelchair tennis.
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Friday 6 May 2022 England Trials for Grace Good luck to Grace for her England Football trials tomorrow (Saturday 7 May 2022) in Guildford.
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Friday 29 April 2022 Year 10 Sports Leaders at the School Games Inclusion Event Natalie Harris from Kent Sport contacted Mr Thornton after our Year 10 students had supported at this years event to say, "... what a pleasure it was working alongside Spires Academy leaders yesterday."
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Friday 29 April 2022 Year 10 meet Gerald Dickens Year 10 students are studying Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol for their English Literature GCSE, and to aid their understanding of the plot, characters and context, Gerald Dickens provided the students with a dramatic performance of the novella. Gerald’s theatrical work follows in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens, who increased his fortune and popularity by performing dramatic readings of his work. Gerald spared some time at the end of his performance for a Q&A session with the students.
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Friday 29 April 2022 Great Great Grandson of Charles Dickens Meets the Drood Dudes. Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, paid a visit to Spires Academy to meet with the Drood Dudes. The Drood Dudes are members of the Spires Dickens Society ranging from years 8-11, and they have been tasked with writing the end of The Mystery of Edwin Drood – the last book that Charles Dickens wrote but never finished before he died. We meet once a week during a Thursday lunchtime, and the students work together on creating a Victorian-style plot that will unveil the mystery of Edwin Drood. So far, their submitted work has been impressive – you can read a small extract from it on Gerald’s blog, in which he comments on his visit to Spires Academy.
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Wednesday 23 March 2022 Year 11 Exam Success Evening On Thursday 10 March 2022 we held our first Exams Success Evening for Year 11 families.
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Thursday 17 March 2022 Gymnastics Academy Success
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