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Star wins high-profile awards
Date Added: 11/05/2017
Staff and pupils at Star Academies are celebrating after winning two prestigious awards in the space of 24 hours. The Trust was presented with the ‘Chairman’s Award’ at Blackburn with… Read more >
Star schools secure some of the country’s lowest absence rates
Date Added: 23/03/2017
On 23rd March, the Department for Education released its annual pupil absence data, which provided a breakdown of school absence rates for the year 2015-2016. Nine of the Trust’s schools… Read more >
Star Schools Top Progress Tables
Date Added: 19/01/2017
Star’s Blackburn-based secondary schools, TIGHS and TIBHS, have made national headlines after being identified as the country’s top-performing schools in the Government’s new headline Progress 8 measure. Staff and pupils… Read more >
Olive Schools Secure Outstanding Results in Phonics Screening Check
Date Added: 03/11/2016
The Trust’s primary schools have achieved exceptional results in the 2016 Phonics Screening Check, echoing last year’s success. The Olive School, Blackburn secured a 100% pass rate in this year’s… Read more >
Star schools secure National Support School status
Date Added: 27/06/2016
Two more schools within the Star family have officially been recognised as system leaders. The Olive School, Blackburn and TIBHS have both been designated as National Support Schools and, alongside other Star… Read more >
TIGHS delivers world class outcomes
Date Added: 05/05/2016
TIGHS, the flagship school of Star Academies, has been identified by educational experts as the third highest performing school in the country for Key Stage 4 attainment, and the second… Read more >
Star pupils become youngest ever winners of nation-wide enterprise competition
Date Added: 05/05/2016
Five Year 7 pupils from Eden Girls’ School, Waltham Forest have become the youngest ever winners of the Mosaic Enterprise Challenge, beating off stiff competition from 103 secondary schools and… Read more >
TIGHS’ curriculum is in a class of its own
Date Added: 29/04/2016
Nick Gibb, Minister of State for Schools, has praised TIGHS’ well-rounded, academic curriculum for its role in transforming educational outcomes for children and young people. Addressing the Association of School… Read more >
Star schools secure some of the country’s highest attendance rates
Date Added: 30/03/2016
Four of the Trust’s secondary schools are amongst the top 10 best-attended state schools in the country. On 24th March, the Department for Education released its annual pupil absence data,… Read more >
Star praised by Schools’ Minister
Date Added: 27/01/2016
The Schools’ Minister, Nick Gibb, has today praised Star Academies in a speech to The Key, an information service for school leaders. In the speech, Mr Gibb explained how government reforms are… Read more >