Carer Pete Cox swapped his overalls and spanners for a new life with a Norfolk home care company earlier this year - and has already won an award. Pete joined family run Extra Hands in March after spending 25 years in the motor trade as a mechanic, but he has no regrets and is relishing his new role of caring for predominantly older people in the community.
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Caring seems to be in the family for the recipient of a Going the Extra Mile Award at the Norfolk home care company Extra Hands. Kate Davis won the award for the first time in January last year, and has been chosen as the September winner this year. A gold-medal winning athletics champion inspired pupils in Newcastle when she paid a visit to their school. Sprinter Joy Eze is from Walker and returned to home territory when she joined the children at St Aidan’s Catholic Primary School in Ashington, where she was also reunited with a familiar face from the past. Headteacher Michael Moran taught the 19-year-old when she was a pupil at St Alban’s Catholic Primary School – and even played a minor role in the young athlete’s first sporting success. A Wandsworth primary school is heading towards an ‘Outstanding’ grade from inspectors at Ofsted, according to a recent inspection.
Floreat Wandsworth, a member of GLF Schools multi-academy trust, remains a ‘good’ school after a recent visit, but it could have been ‘outstanding’ if a full inspection was carried out, the report said when it was published this week. West Norfolk’s young political minds were put to good use in a debate in Parliament, when their secondary school paid a visit to the Palace of Westminster. The Year 12 and 13 students from Springwood High School, King’s Lynn, enjoyed tours of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and were able to meet James Wild, MP for North West Norfolk, who joined them. There was more than one case of checkmate when budding chess masters from West Norfolk pitted their skills against one another in a new competition. Hosted by Marshland High School in West Walton, the inaugural West Norfolk Academies Trust Chess Tournament saw teams from all four of the Trust’s secondary schools come together to test their gambits, moves and tactics in the classic board game. The bond between children in Newcastle and its German counterpart was strengthened when teachers from two schools got together to celebrate a newly formed partnership. Anthony Kennedy, Deputy Headteacher at English Martyrs’ Catholic Primary, travelled to Gelsenkirchen, Germany, with colleagues Abi Madsen and Sarah Bridgewood to meet the team at Regenbogenschule, or ‘Rainbow School’. |
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