Pontefract Academies Trust Pledge Support for The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract

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Pontefract Academies Trust Pledge Support for The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract

Pontefract Academies Trust has announced that for this academic year their eight schools as well as the central office, will be fundraising for The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract. Throughout the coming year, the Trust hope to help children and staff gain an understanding as to what the charity stands for, the impact of fundraising and general awareness around the issues the charity combats as well as raising as much money as they can. The decision to support the charity for the second year in a row comes after an extremely successful academic year of fundraising last year, which… Read more

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Pontefract Academies Trust Raise almost £20,000 In Their Phenomenal Fundraising Efforts

All eight schools who are part of Pontefract Academies Trust have received the totals that they have collectively raised for The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract and Motor Neurone Disease Association during the 2020-2021 academic year. £10,252.10 had been raised for The Prince of Wales Hospice and £9,160.65 for Motor Neurone Disease. Both are incredible amounts that will make a positive difference to both charities. The schools include the six primary schools Carleton Park Junior and Infant School, De Lacy Pontefract Primary School, Halfpenny Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Larks Hill Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Orchard Head… Read more

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Pontefract Academies Trust Staff Felt The Freeze

Staff including teachers, lunchtime supervisors and housekeepers across the eight schools in Pontefract Academies Trust have each endured at least 92 seconds of ice cold water on their feet to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease (MNDA) by taking part in the Ice Foot 92 challenge. The eight schools include six primaries, Carleton Park Junior & Infant School, De Lacy Primary School, Halfpenny Lane Junior, Infant & Nursery School, Larks Hill Junior & Infant School, Orchard Head Junior, Infant & Nursery School, The Rookeries Carleton Junior, Infant & Nursery School and two secondaries, Carleton High School and The King’s… Read more

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HUGE SUCCESS FOR PONTEFRACT STUDENTS IN GCSE RESULTS

The King’s School and Carleton High School, both members of Pontefract Academies Trust, are celebrating GCSE success today. Two students from The King’s School achieved an incredible set of results comprising off all 9s. 9% of students across both schools achieved all 7-9 grades in all subjects (A-A*). 52% of students at Carleton High School and 59% of students at The King’s School achieved a grade 7-9 (A-A*) in at least one subject. Dominic Pinto, Headteacher at The King’s School said: We are extremely proud of all our students and the resilience they have shown, and we wish them all… Read more

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Pontefract Academies Trust Phenomenal Fundraising Week

All eight schools who are part of Pontefract Academies Trust have had a busy few days packed full of fundraising activities to raise money for both The Prince of Wales Hospice based in Pontefract and Motor Neurone Disease (MNDA). The six primary schools including Carleton Park Junior and Infant School, De Lacy Pontefract Primary School, Halfpenny Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Larks Hill Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Orchard Head Junior, Infant and Nursery School, The Rookeries Carleton Junior, Infant and Nursery School, have been celebrating hero’s! They’ve come to school dressed as teachers, Spiderman, police officers and batman… Read more

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The Larks Hill Little Library is Launched to Inspire the Local Community to Love Books

A group of Year 6 pupils at Larks Hill Junior & Infant School, part of Pontefract Academies Trust, who are avid book worms, have worked together with their teacher to create a unique book offering for their local community in Pontefract. The ten children, who formed a book club back in September have been meeting once every two weeks to share their passion and knowledge of reading. Since then, they have been thinking of ideas of how they could spread their passion into the local community. With the help of Heather Howard, Year 6 teacher at the school, they have… Read more

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Pontefract Food Bank Thank Pontefract Schools for their Support

Together the 3,900 pupils and over 300 staff members of Pontefract Academies Trust collected 315kg of food which has been donated to Pontefract Food Bank. The amount collected is enough to create 21 food packages for those in need within the local community. Pontefract Food Bank which is based at Central Methodist Church, Newgate, Pontefract are delighted to have the support of Pontefract Academies Trust as they’re urgently needing items such as tinned tuna, tinned meats, tinned potatoes, carrots and large size nappies to name just some of the products on their list. CEO at Pontefract Academies Trust, Julian Appleyard… Read more

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Pontefract Children Win National Writing Competition

Twelve children are following in the footsteps of their favourite authors such as Jacqueline Wilson and David Walliams after being selected out of 10,000 children to have their creative writing published in a book. The children are all from Larks Hill Junior & Infant School in Pontefract, part of Pontefract Academies Trust and were tasked to write a poem or short story no more than 100 words along the theme of “A wander in the Woods”. The work that they produced has really impressed not only the school but the judges of the Young Writers Competition. One of the winners,… Read more

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Pontefract Caped Crusaders will be celebrating Red Nose Day

Wearing red, telling funny jokes and dressing up as their favourite superheroes are just some of the ways that the children at Pontefract Academies Trust schools plan to celebrate Red Nose Day this Friday 19th March. Carleton Park Junior school council had a committee meeting to decide what they would like to do and it was agreed that the whole school will enjoy a “Funny Friday Afternoon” and share as many jokes as they can throughout the day. The Rookeries Junior, Infant and Nursery school will be welcoming lots of mini caped crusaders including Batman, Robin, Mr Incredibles and Wonderwomans… Read more

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Masked Readers celebrate World Book Day at Pontefract Academies Trust

Teachers, pupils and parents didn’t let lockdown stop them from celebrating this year’s World Book Day as they enjoyed an action packed agenda to enjoy their love of storytelling and reading. Harry Potters, Hermiones, Dennis the Menaces, Tom Gates and Fantastic Mr Foxes are just some of the characters that joined Pontefract Academies Trust online lessons to enjoy “The Masked Reader” event where staff disguised their faces and children and families had to guess who it is and what book they were reading. Ian Shuttleworth, Headteacher at Larks Hill Junior and Infant School said: “World Book Day has always been… Read more

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