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• Trust News Wednesday 17 December 2025 Orion Little Stars in Blenheim - Spaces Available for 2026! We are delighted to announce that our final nursery to open, Orion Little Stars at Orion Blenheim is now open and has places available for children from 2-4 years old.
• Trust News Tuesday 11 November 2025 Remembrance Day - 11 November 2025 To commemorate Armistice Day,
• Trust News Wednesday 24 September 2025 Term Dates 2026-27 Orion Education Term Dates published for 2026-27
• Trust News Tuesday 23 September 2025 Orion Little Stars Scotts Park Nursery to Host Open Day Families in the local community are warmly invited to the Little Stars Scotts Park Nursery Open Day on Monday 29th September, from 8:30am to 3:00pm.
• Trust News Tuesday 16 September 2025 Orion Little Stars - Now Open at Orion Ravensworth! Orion Little Stars Now Open!
• Trust News Friday 5 September 2025 CEO Welcome September 2025 Welcome letter from CEO September 2025
• Trust News Friday 5 September 2025 Summer Estates Improvement Projects 2025 While students and staff enjoyed a well-deserved break over the summer, we have been busy making significant improvements across our estates. The Trust continues to invest year on year to provide the best possible facilities for our students, staff, and visitors.
• Trust News Thursday 21 August 2025 Strong GCSE Outcomes across Orion Schools Orion schools; Coopers, Ravensbourne, Spires and Eden Park have had a bumper year at GCSE this year. Progress and attainment rose sharply across all schools with Orion Coopers, Ravensbourne and Orion Eden Park posting some of the best results in their history.
• Trust News Wednesday 16 July 2025 Parent and Carer Summer Letter 2025 Parent and Carer letter from the CEO July 2025
• Trust News Tuesday 24 June 2025 Orion Education Sports Event Orion Education hosts first cross trust Secondary Sports Day
• Trust News Tuesday 17 June 2025 Orion Education: Building Capacity Through Trust Wide Coaching Olivia Page, Director of Professional Development has recently written a paper for the CST (Confederation of School Trusts) to highlight the importance of professional development, and our trust-wide instructional coaching strategy.
• Trust News Monday 19 May 2025 Change to Easter Term Dates for Spires Academy (2026) Revised Easter Holiday Dates for Spires Academy 2026
• Trust News Thursday 3 April 2025 Orion Education achieves Workplace Wellbeing Charter Accreditation We are proud to announce that Orion Education has been awarded the Workplace Wellbeing Charter Accreditation, recognising our ongoing commitment to the health and wellbeing of our employees. Workplace wellbeing is a fundamental priority for us, and this accreditation reflects our dedication to fostering a positive, supportive, and healthy work environment.
• Trust News Wednesday 2 April 2025 ORION EDUCATION APPROVED BY DfE TO OPEN THREE NEW SCHOOL BASED DAY NURSERIES We are delighted to announce that three Orion primary schools have been approved to open day nurseries as part of the new government’s drive to make nursey education more available to families.
• Trust News Friday 28 March 2025 Blenheim Primary School Maintains Good Ofsted Rating We are delighted to publish the most recent Ofsted report for Blenheim Primary School. The strength of the report reflects the hard work that pupils, teachers and leaders have put into the school. It's a delight to read and reflects the considerable progress that the school has made. We don't do what we do for these reports, but congratulations to everyone involved.
• Trust News Wednesday 26 March 2025 Annual Impact Report 2023-24 Our Annual Impact Report for 2023-24 is now available, browse the report and hear from our CEO on our progress and vision for the future.
• Sunday 21 January 2024 #Team23 Awards and Certificate Evening Wednesday 17 January 2024 we welcomed back to the Academy all of our Year 11 students who completed their education with us last year. This event enabled them to catch up with each other and compare what they have been doing for the past few months, catch up with their old teachers and collect the GCSE certificates that they hade worked so hard to achieve.
• Friday 16 June 2023 Transition Evening /i/video/Year_7_Transition_Evening_2023.mp4
• Thursday 15 June 2023 Kent Schools Media Challenge - Finalists Congratulations to Isaac Griffiths, Dylan Patel, Chloe Crowhurst, Cody Arnold, Ava Forbister and Billy Hayes whose podcast about online harm has been selected as a finalist for the Kent Schools Media Challenge. Use this link to listen to the podcast: https://youtu.be/rZLHEASmER8 Now it’s time to vote! The online public vote begins at 7am this Wednesday 14th June. The winning school will be the one with the most votes when the poll closes a week later at 5pm on Tuesday 20th June. Voting takes place at www.collaboratedigital.com/vote
• Thursday 1 December 2022 Christmas Concert Thursday 15 December 2022 (7-9pm)
• Thursday 1 December 2022 Donate a Book at Christmas
• Friday 26 August 2022 GCSE Results 2022 Students at Spires Academy have been collecting their GCSE and BTEC results today (Thursday 25 August). This is the first full programme of examinations since 2019.
• Wednesday 8 June 2022 Demonstrating Care Values for Health & Social Care “As part of their BTEC course, Year 10 Health and Social Care students organised arts and crafts activities for Year 7 students from St Nicholas School, Canterbury. As part of their Assignment, students demonstrated the core care values in health and social care, including effective communication, showing respect, preserving dignity and empowering and promoting independence. It was an enjoyable event for all concerned!”
• Monday 9 May 2022 Silver at the World Team Cup Ruben Harris has just helped the Great Britain Junior Team to win the silver medal at the World Team Cup. This is equivalent to the Davis Cup in wheelchair tennis.
• Friday 6 May 2022 England Trials for Grace Good luck to Grace for her England Football trials tomorrow (Saturday 7 May 2022) in Guildford.
• Friday 29 April 2022 Year 10 Sports Leaders at the School Games Inclusion Event Natalie Harris from Kent Sport contacted Mr Thornton after our Year 10 students had supported at this years event to say, "... what a pleasure it was working alongside Spires Academy leaders yesterday."
• Friday 29 April 2022 Year 10 meet Gerald Dickens Year 10 students are studying Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol for their English Literature GCSE, and to aid their understanding of the plot, characters and context, Gerald Dickens provided the students with a dramatic performance of the novella. Gerald’s theatrical work follows in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens, who increased his fortune and popularity by performing dramatic readings of his work. Gerald spared some time at the end of his performance for a Q&A session with the students.
• Friday 29 April 2022 Great Great Grandson of Charles Dickens Meets the Drood Dudes. Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, paid a visit to Spires Academy to meet with the Drood Dudes. The Drood Dudes are members of the Spires Dickens Society ranging from years 8-11, and they have been tasked with writing the end of The Mystery of Edwin Drood – the last book that Charles Dickens wrote but never finished before he died. We meet once a week during a Thursday lunchtime, and the students work together on creating a Victorian-style plot that will unveil the mystery of Edwin Drood. So far, their submitted work has been impressive – you can read a small extract from it on Gerald’s blog, in which he comments on his visit to Spires Academy.
• Wednesday 23 March 2022 Year 11 Exam Success Evening On Thursday 10 March 2022 we held our first Exams Success Evening for Year 11 families.
• Thursday 17 March 2022 Gymnastics Academy Success
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