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Pontefract Academies Trust Support Children’s Mental Health Week
Pontefract Academies Trust has been embracing Children’s Mental Health Week and encouraging all their students to find activities that help them feel good about themselves whether that be art, drama, exercise or music. The schools will be following the Place2Be’s theme of ‘Dress to Express’ this week and all students and staff will be taking…
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De Lacy Primary School Welcomes new Headteacher
De Lacy Primary School is pleased to announce the appointment of their new Headteacher, James Parkinson. James is already well known to De Lacy Primary School, having previously been Headteacher at Halfpenny Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School which is also part of Pontefract Academies Trust. James has a wealth of teaching knowledge having worked…
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Pontefract Academies Trust Donate to Pontefract Food Bank
More than 500 teachers and staff from Pontefract Academies Trust are collecting tins of food and urgent items to donate to the Pontefract food bank. The Trust are pleased to be able to help them continue their phenomenal work of helping those needing support especially the increased numbers during the pandemic. Pontefract Food Bank which…
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Blue Peter Badges for two Pontefract Children
Two delighted siblings Daisy and Henry from Halfpenny Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School, which is part of Pontefract Academies Trust, have been awarded with their very own Blue Peter Badges for their fantastic artwork. The children are absolutely ecstatic as they’re both big fans of the popular Blue Peter tv programme and never believed…
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Larks Hill Junior & Infant School Brighten up Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield Trust
Primary school children in Pontefract have been hard at work to create bright and uplifting paintings to be displayed in Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield with the aim of bringing a smile to patients during the festive season. The children involved in the project are in year 6 at Larks Hill Junior & Infant School, part…
