Trust makes its mark as national leaders

Bournemouth’s Avonbourne Trust and its CEO Debbie Godfrey-Phaure have been awarded the prestigious The Prince’s Teaching Institute (PTI) Schools Leadership Mark for the second year running. This national award recognises schools whose leadership and curriculum develops the quality, rigour and challenge experienced by pupils of all abilities and backgrounds. Avonbourne has been awarded the Mark for encouraging the recruitment and … Read More

Students pass interview challenge

It’s not often teenagers find themselves facing a tough interview panel as they apply for high powered jobs. But that’s just what students from two Bournemouth colleges experienced when they were given a taste of real life in a tough job seeking challenge. More than 300 Year 10 students from Avonbourne and Harewood colleges were tasked with applying for one … Read More

Bournemouth school scoops national award

The UK’s most enterprising college has done it again – scooping not one but two awards in the national Tenner Challenge. A team of Year 10 students from Avonbourne College in Bournemouth has won ‘best group’ and ‘highest profit’ in the national search for the best young entrepreneurs. With just a £10 loan, the team called Little Poppies made an … Read More

Avonbourne celebrates best EBacc results

A Bournemouth school is celebrating its best ever set of results in the prestigious English Baccalaureate (EBacc) benchmark. Avonbourne College saw 26% of its students achieve A*s to Cs in the core academic subjects that make up the EBacc – English, maths, history or geography, the sciences and a language. That was up four per cent on the previous year … Read More

Truly international

A Bournemouth sixth form has celebrated the global impact of its international students. Avonbourne Sixth Form recently put out the flags for its many students who come from far and wide to study at the school. As part of the celebration the college invited its overseas students to write about their experiences of learning in England. And they all responded, … Read More

Progress paves the way for other schools

Avonbourne Trust in Bournemouth has been helping the governent to trial Progress 8, a new way of grading which shows the progress students make from Year 7 to 11.