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“Schools struggle to get pupils seen by qualified mental health professionals because training for counsellors focuses too much on treating adults, warns the head of a children’s mental health charity” so starts the article in Schools Week: Mental health charities call for more youth specialists to be trained. The RSA Academies and RSA project on mental […]

On 26th March, RSA Academies attended the APPG in Education to hear Rt Hon Anne Milton MP, Minister of State for Apprenticeships and Skills, talk through the government’s new careers strategy. The DfE careers strategy was published in December 2017 in partnership with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, using the Gatsby eight benchmarks as its ‘spine’, as Anne […]

To celebrate world poetry day we at the RSA Academies would like to celebrate the amazing work going on across the RSA Family of Academies and the wider RSA organisation with spoken word. As Lemn Sissay puts it, ‘Spoken word is just the latest way to describe the oldest art form’ and here at RSA […]

We were delighted to hear MP for Redditch, Rachel Maclean, tell the House of Commons about the recent work on careers that the pupils of Ipsley CE RSA Academy, along with Church Hill Middle School have taken part in. The careers programme, Opening Doors, aims to replace traditional careers fairs with new, more impact intensive ways, of […]

It was a great pleasure to have the opportunity to attend the #Iwill campaign’s planning meeting last week to discuss how to encourage more Birmingham based secondary schools to get involved in social action work. I was joined by a group of pupils from the RSA Academy in Tipton who explained how RSA Academies had […]

Congratulations! We are thrilled to share the RSA Academy, Tipton’s fantastic achievement of Gold Artsmark Award. Artsmark is an Arts Council England endorsement that recognises schools with excellent provision for the arts within their curriculum and extra-curricular activities. The awarding panel was particularly impressed with the number of students who are electing to take arts subjects beyond Year […]

As part of National Apprenticeship Week, a group of Whitley Academy students were given the opportunity to explore the World Beyond School at Coventry and Warwickshire’s largest careers fair organised by the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP) in conjunction with the CWLEP Growth Hub and the Careers and Enterprise Company. Over 40 local and national employers, […]

This blog was written by Ruth Carter, RSA Fellow and mentor at Whitley Academy. When I heard about the RSA mentoring programme, I was interested in finding out how I could help support young people at school. My main reason for wanting to mentor a young person, was so that I could help support them […]

Welcome to the RSA Academies Newsletter March 2018. Read all about the latest news including our debate, how can we make universities more inclusive with a fantastic panel, the launch of our latest creative RDI project Mental Pictures, news of the RSAATSA conference for NQT/RQT conference and the launch of world of work project, Opening Doors, in Redditch. Too much to miss!

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