A Duke of Edinburgh information evening will take place on Thursday 26^th September at 5pm in the Great Hall.

The Duke of Edinburgh award scheme is nationally recognised, encourages students to work as part of a team, develop a range of life skills, manage their time effectively and grow more confident through all of the activities that they will engage in.   

The evening will last for approximately one hour and both parents and students are invited.

Staff and students at The Priory Ruskin Academy are celebrating today with an excellent set of A-Level and applied vocational subject results which have seen an increase in progress.

Notable successes include Alastair Wills who will be studying Geography at The University of Nottingham, Katie Wallace, studying Law at the University of Exeter, and Brooke Woolmer, who achieved Distinction *  in Law, a grade A in English Language and a grade A in Sociology.

We are delighted that Ruskin has been selected, as 1 of 30 schools in the country, for the Oxford University Set Up programme. This means that next year New College, one of the largest of Oxford University’s colleges, will be working with our Year 10 and 11 students on university applications and choosing the right A levels.

On Wednesday 22^nd May staff and students at Ruskin were honoured to welcome Simon Winston and hear his first hand testimony as a Holocaust Survivor.

His talk was followed by a question and answer session to enable students to better understand the nature of the Holocaust and to explore its lessons in more depth. The visit is part of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s extensive all year round Outreach Programme, which is available to schools across the UK.

Simon, was born in 1938 in a small town called Radzivillov, then part of Poland, now in the independent state of the Ukraine. Simon, his mother and father, and his brother were forced to live in a ghetto and Simon experienced much brutality there. However, Simon and his family were able to escape from the ghetto where they went into hiding at a farm. They lived in very cramped conditions. When they were told they had been freed and the war was over, Simon and his family became refugees and spent two years in a Displaced Persons Camp before moving to England. Simon has remained in England ever since, sharing his story in order to highlight the importance of learning from the past.

The football and netball trip to Barcelona at the start of the Easter break was a huge success. Ninety students from Years 7-13 travelled to Spain where they enjoyed specialised training, lots of competitive match play, a tour of Nou Camp Stadium, the opportunity to watch a professional game and time to explore both Barcelona and Girona.

On 25th March , a group of 69 Year 7 students went on a French trip to the Opal Coast in Northern France for 3 days.