 When Hayley Claxton decided on a complete change of career she switched from caring for plants to caring for people.
Now she has progressed to take up the role of managing both offices for award-winning Norfolk home care firm Extra Hands.
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 A Wisbech academy footballer has been playing at premier league venues with his team mates at Peterborough United U12 Academy.
Harry Smith, a Year 7 student at the Thomas Clarkson Academy, has been to Tottenham’s first-class facilities at the Spurs training ground in Enfield, north London, for a football tournament where his Posh team won five out of the six games they played.  West Norfolk schools are helping language students get a flavour of different countries by holding themed meals, cinema experiences and encouraging baking of traditional European dishes.
West Norfolk Academies Trust schools hold reward breakfasts and afternoon teas to celebrate effort and learning in modern foreign languages (MFL) throughout the term.  Proposals to create a new boxing club at a Wisbech academy received a resounding ‘we’re in’ from a panel of ‘dragons’ who had a tough choice to make.
 Students at Smithdon High School have been dreaming of a ‘Green Christmas’ - by making a tree out of recycled materials.
The environmentally friendly festive decoration was created by Year 7 students using chicken wire, cardboard, old school postcards, string and wool at Smithdon, one of 50 schools in the country recently chosen to receive a multi-million pound investment to be rebuilt.  A search for music teachers has been launched by a leading group of West Norfolk schools after a surge in demand for singing lessons from students.
West Norfolk Academies Trust has seen a huge rise in secondary school pupils keen to learn how to sing after the lifting of Covid restrictions impacting music lessons.  The organiser of the Duke of Edinburgh award for the West Norfolk Academies Trust has become one of a small group of people to receive Royal recognition for exceptional dedication to the role.
Pauline Petch has been involved with the scheme for nearly 10 years, running it to begin with at Springwood High School and then managing it across the four high schools of the West Norfolk Academies Trust.  Students at Marshland High have joined schools across the UK to write a poignant poem marking the anniversary of an accident which claimed the life of a Red Arrows pilot.
 Pupils at a Newcastle primary helped the local community to smile by delivering dozens of food gifts from the school's annual Harvest Festival collection.
 A West Norfolk carer has won an award less than a year after taking on a new role looking after people in their own homes.
Hayley Handley-Hicks was nominated for a GEM award - which stands for Going the Extra Mile - from her employer award-winning Norfolk home care company Extra Hands. |
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