 There were celebrations all round when a Hunstanton school held its first prize giving event in three years.
Smithdon High School’s Year 11 Prize Presentation and GCSE Certificate Evening celebrated the achievements of last year’s GCSE students in a ceremony that was attended by around 200 people.
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 A King’s Lynn school’s rewilding initiative got off to a great start when staff, parents and student volunteers joined forces to plant more than 400 saplings.
Springwood High School’s ‘Big Dig’ saw the volunteers plant a mix of hazel, blackthorn, privet, holly and dogwood, all donated by the Woodland Trust, along a section of the school’s boundary fence line.  Caring runs in the family for Rebecca Moore, who followed in her mother’s footsteps when she joined award winning Norfolk home care company Extra Hands two years ago.
“My mum started working with the company and really liked it,” she explained. “I was due to start another job but got let down due to Covid, so I started working at Extra Hands instead. We both really enjoy it.  Pudsey Bear made an appearance in Hunstanton when Smithdon High School took part in Children in Need Day.
As part of the school’s fundraising activities this year, a photo booth enabled students to have their pictures taken within a giant frame featuring the charity’s famous teddy mascot while Assistant Headteacher Rachel Bazeley-Smith braved the wet sponge stocks.  Nina Tye joined award-winning home care company Extra Hands in November 2012. She previously worked at a variety of jobs including a dry cleaner, before finding her way to the company’s Broadland office.
“After the dry cleaner’s, I was with a care company for about five years,” said Miss Tye. “After I left there, I went to work in a care home, but I didn’t like it. “I applied to Extra Hands online and got a phone call the next day. It happened to be my day off, so I came straight in, was offered the job, and have been here ever since!”  Children at Aureus Primary School, a member of GLF Schools, develop into responsible, articulate and impressive young people thanks to an all-round outstanding education based on an ambitious and bespoke curriculum, says our first Ofsted report.
 Budding musicians from 13 different primary schools across West Norfolk came together to display their talents and perform as one large orchestra.
Around 100 pupils aged eight to 11 took part in the performance at Gaywood Primary School in front of an audience that included the borough’s Deputy Mayor Margaret Wilkinson.  Students from six West Norfolk primary schools got together to mark the recent time of remembrance with a special performance in front of an audience including veterans from the armed forces.
A Newcastle pupil has won a commendation in a prestigious, national poetry translation competition.
Now at St Cuthbert’s High School, Adrian Beedassy was in Year 6 at St Michael’s Catholic Primary School in Alnwick when he entered the Stephen Spender Prize at the encouragement of his teachers.  A single mum and a retiree took up new careers in caring, and both have won an award for their work at a Norfolk care provider.
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