Ebor Academy Trust is joining forces with City of York Council to provide an additional Enhanced Resource Provision (ERP) for young children with communication and interaction needs in York.   The new provision, to be introduced at Lakeside Primary Academy, on Clifton Moor, will run on the same lines as the flourishing provision at Haxby...Read More

Apprentices learning how to effectively support children in schools and nurseries are receiving high quality training from Ebor Academy Trust, say Ofsted inspectors. In awarding the work of the apprenticeships team a judgement of “Good” in all areas, inspectors said apprentices “develop significant and relevant new skills, knowledge and behaviours” and that they feel valued and...Read More

There’s been a “big dig” at Robert Wilkinson Primary Academy. The school is planning to establish a brand new allotment site and nearly 50 people came along earlier this month from across the community to help fill raised beds with soil, dig out new planting spaces and build paths. Not content with digging, the team...Read More

Children have designed their own bunting to commemorate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. In an Ebor Academy Trust-wide competition among all its 23 primary schools, three winners were chosen from a wealth of entries – Isla, aged 9, Haxby Road; Brooke, aged 10, Marfleet; and Sophie aged 11 from Sproatley. The bunting was professionally produced...Read More

Children at Robert Wilkinson Primary Academy received an unexpected treat when Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis publicly thanked Ellie Blackley’s Year 1 class on Instagram for their cards and messages of support. The EastEnders actress – who was born deaf and uses British Sign Language (BSL) – scored a perfect 40 alongside professional dancer...Read More

Children at a Selby school are taking action to help homelessness in the town. Years 3 and 4 at Staynor Hall Community Primary Academy gathered donations of adult clothes, toiletries and tinned food to help support people in the local community and even experienced what a soup kitchen might be like when there’s nowhere else to...Read More

A thank-you letter from England football manager Gareth Southgate awaited a class from Staynor Hall Community Primary Academy in Selby when they returned to school after the summer break. Year 3 pupils had written to the football boss following the national team’s defeat in the final of Euro2020 against Italy – and subsequent social media...Read More

Education inspectors Ofsted have awarded top marks to Ebor Academy Trust for its apprenticeship programmes. We attracted “significant progress” in all three judgement areas. This rare achievement is only shared by between five and ten per cent of training providers across the country. Ebor is currently the only training provider to achieve the maximum award...Read More

Ten Ebor schools share the honours in our great, trust-wide poetry competition – Camblesforth, Park Grove, Robert Wilkinson, Brotherton and Byram, Hob Moor, Tadcaster, Lakeside, Alderman Cogan’s, Osbaldwick and Braeburn. Over 400 entries on the theme of looking forward to life after lockdown were received, with the majority in the 5-7 and 8-11 age group...Read More

Ebor Academy Trust is encouraging pupils to take part in a poetry competition which looks forwards to a world without the current restrictions. Ebor, which has 24 schools across York, Selby, the East Riding and Hull and on the Yorkshire Coast, also wants its staff and governors to join in. Sponsorship from United Carlton and...Read More