A group of students from Key Stage 3 are once again, taking part in the Carnegie Shadowing scheme this year. The scheme allows the students to ‘shadow’ the judging process of the CILIP Book Awards as part of the reading for pleasure initiative.

The band has been selected to perform at the finals by the judges of the regional competition, held at Northampton School for Girls in March. The group will perform alongside a very select few of the country’s top musicians, at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall in July.

Chris Lapsley is looking forward to taking up his new role as Trust senior catering manager, heading up the kitchens across all ten of our schools. He plans to standardise food handling and preparation techniques, suppliers, ingredients, menus and portion control so that everyone will have the same quality and quantity of food, regardless of their location.