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• Trust News Thursday 9 July 2026 Orion Education Announces New Trustees to the Board Orion Education is delighted to confirm the appointment of three new Trustees to its Board, further strengthening the organisation's governance, expertise, and strategic leadership as it continues to deliver its mission and support the communities it serves.
• Trust News Tuesday 23 June 2026 New Principal Appointment at Orion Spires
• Trust News Thursday 14 May 2026 Congratulations to Orion Eden Park on their recent Ofsted inspection.
• Trust News Wednesday 6 May 2026 Exciting Opportunity - Children's Workforce Foundation Degree
• Trust News Friday 1 May 2026 New Principal Appointment at Orion Coopers
• Trust News Tuesday 21 April 2026 Trust Board Update Claire Singleton stands down from the Trust Board
• Trust News Wednesday 15 April 2026 New Principal Appointment at Orion Scotts Park We are delighted to announce the appointment of Cheryl Raithby as the new Principal of Orion Scotts Park, starting in September.
• Trust News Tuesday 7 April 2026 Orion Education recognised with The Sutton Trust Fair Admissions Gold Award Orion Education has been recognised with the Sutton Trust Fair Admissions Gold Award, reflecting the trust’s commitment to widening access and strengthening opportunity across its schools. The award recognises the work undertaken by Orion Education to review and embed fairer admissions arrangements. As part of this approach, all schools within the trust now prioritise pupils eligible for the pupil premium for 20% of available places, ensuring that disadvantage is not a barrier to accessing high‑quality education.
• Trust News Friday 20 March 2026 Annual Impact Report 2024-25
• Trust News Friday 27 February 2026 DfE Congratulates Our Schools on Opening Three New Nurseries We are delighted to share that we have received three letters of recognition from the Department for Education, celebrating the successful opening of our new Orion Little Stars school‑based nurseries at Orion Blenheim, Orion Ravensworth and Orion Scotts Park.
• Trust News Monday 2 February 2026 London RISE Education Fortnight We are proud to be hosting a series of professional development events as part of London RISE Education Fortnight 2026, a programme aligned with the Department for Education’s Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) initiative. The RISE programme brings together educational experts, advisers, and networks across London to support school improvement, raise standards, and promote collaboration across the region.
• 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!
• 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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