Entries from February 2009

February 28, 2009

Get 19,530 new twitter followers in 30 days?

If you are on twitter and want to increase your number of followers for marketing purposes – or just for the extra attention – you might want to check this out!
Gary Mc Caffrey has this crazy idea of how to get up to 19,530 new twitters to follow you in 30 days. As a twitter [...]

February 22, 2009

Thank You, Tina!

Our warmest thanks to Tina who kindly donated books to our future school library! One of the most costly exercises after premises and staff costs is the supply of resources. We want our students to have access to books, to arts and craft materials, to music and films, to magazines etc. All of this is [...]

February 22, 2009

Thank You, Jane!

John and I would like to say thank you to Jane for her generous donation to the Academy. One of many ways you can support us is by giving us your old stuff to sell. We flog everything on eBay, and you can choose whether you want us to have the whole profit or just [...]

February 18, 2009

You Can Help Us Make a Difference!

Atkins Academy is working with young black people to raise aspirations, maximise potential and create opportunities for success. At the moment we are raising funds to become an independent school and a provider of GCSE and A-Level equivalent qualifications.
Education is an expensive field of work, but we are doing this Obama-style. Penny by penny we [...]

February 14, 2009

Obama Dit It – And So Can We!

First of all – Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you lovers, dreamers and closet romantics out there! Hope you’re all looking after yourselves and making sure to give your love away, be it to a partner, a family member, a good cause or something you believe in. xxx
Exciting things are happening in the Academy, [...]

February 14, 2009

On Valentines and True Love

So, it’s Valentine’s day again; this the single peeps’ least favourite day of the year and the real test of the coupled up’s love for each other. For years, this day (together with midsummer, Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, birthdays, funerals and christenings) used to invoke a feeling of dread and despair in me. There’s some [...]

February 4, 2009

Happy Birthday My Love

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my man, my boss, my mentor and the man I have promised to spend the next 25 years of my life with. 45 years old today, he’s still a young man at heart but a wise old dog in his character of knowledge.
I’ve made him a piggy bank [...]