Empathy and Migration Workshop Aids Understanding of Refugees
Year 9 students at Futures Institute, Banbury, recently welcomed the Red Cross to the school for a...
Read more Empathy and Migration Workshop Aids Understanding of Refugees“At school children were learning Word, PowerPoint and Excel – boring kids to death really with using other people’s software rather than empowering them to create their own. So, teaching kids how to read but not how to write.”
In this The Key podcast we talk to Steve and Paula Kenning, Managing Directors of Aspirations Academy Trust, and Ian Livingstone CBE, a games industry veteran, who is working with the trust to found a new academy in Bournemouth – the Livingstone Academy. We talk about the principles underpinning the work of the Aspirations Academy Trust and hear about how Steve and Paula have worked with Ian to found a different and exciting new school.
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You can learn more about the work of Aspire Academies Trust here
“It’s about encouraging all young people to have big dreams (and actually having big dreams can be quite daunting) while being inspired in the present, both at school and beyond, to work hard to reach those dreams.”
Ian Livingstone CBE
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Steve & Paula Kenning
Year 9 students at Futures Institute, Banbury, recently welcomed the Red Cross to the school for a...
Read more Empathy and Migration Workshop Aids Understanding of RefugeesLess than five years later, the Ofsted report notes that ‘with support from the trust, the school...
Read more ‘Significant Improvement’ at Bovington Academy Leads to ‘Outstanding’ Features in Latest Ofsted ReportIntrepid students from six Aspirations academies recently visited NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas on the...
Read more ASPIRATIONS STUDENTS ON A (NASA) MISSION!