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On Friday 29th March, 40 Year 4 Pupil Leaders came together for a special RSA4 social action workshop at the University of Worcester. RSA4 is a new primary social action programme run across four West Midlands schools including Abbeywood First School RSA Academy, Charford First School, Sutton Park Primary RSA Academy, and Woodrow First School. […]

Over the past few weeks 40 Year 4 pupils have been coming together for a series of RSA Academies RSA4 workshops that will see the pupil leaders develop character traits and practical skills to deliver positive social change in their communities and schools, through youth social action. It seems only fitting that in the same […]

This week has seen National Careers Week, World Book Day, and today International Women’s Day. All three have highlighted important issues (not least how to whip up a costume in no time). But in the middle of these three issues is a ‘sweet spot’: the representation of gender in children’s books and how this might […]

This week marks National Careers Week (4th – 9th March 2019), which aims to raise awareness of the importance of high-quality careers education, information advice and guidance (CEIAG) for social mobility, school improvement and preparing young people to make a success of their lives. In the build-up to this important week, seven schools from across our RSA Family of […]

In the last few days of Student Volunteering Week 2019 (11 – 17 February), RSA Academies launched the very first RSA4 Pupil Leaders Workshop. With the support of the Pears #iwill Fund, the RSA and RSA Academies are working together for the next two years to launch RSA4 and investigate what high-quality youth social action […]

This week marks Student Volunteering Week (11– 17 February 2019), so what better way to start than reflecting on the RSA8 Student Leadership University Planning day. On Friday 1 February, 50 Year 8 students from across five schools in the RSA Family of Academies, RSA Academy Tipton, Holyhead School, Ipsley CE RSA Academy, Church Hill Middle […]

Welcome to the RSA Academies’ January newsletter. Read about our new school, Sutton Park Primary and the launch of a social action project with primary aged pupils, and more.

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Where there’s a will, there’s a way. On a day when the elements did their best to create havoc with the trainlines, RSA Academies Takeover Day stood firm on its 5th Birthday. Each year the RSA Academies invite each school to bring a team of students down to RSA House in London for a jam-packed […]

The Opening Doors to Business project provides the opportunity for employers to give an insight to local schools in how their organisation works and the range of career opportunities there are available. Opening Doors directly addresses points 5 & 6 of the Gatsby Report outlining benchmarks for careers education schools. First implemented in Wyre Forest, led by OGL […]

It is nearing the end of another amazing action-packed #iwill week (a UK-wide celebration of the impact young people are making through youth social action), providing us with a timely opportunity to announce an exciting new programme of work in this area at the RSA. With thanks to the Pears Foundation ‘Pears #iwill Fund’, the […]