It’s March already and boy have we been busy these first two and a half months of the year!
I thought it might be a good idea to revisit our New Year’s Resolutions and see what’s happened.
Lose another two stone (slow and steady is my melody) = Two more inches off the tape measure and I [...]
Today is a special day. It’s our first anniversary!
I can’t believe it’s been a year since we formed the Academy. And I can’t believe how far we have come over the past 12 months. Not even in my wildest dreams would I have believed that day, the 29 February, that we’d be this close to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Feeling slightly contemplative looking at the year that lies ahead of us like a blank canvas. Can’t wait to see the painting that will unfold and the excitement at the thought makes me feel all butterflied up… =)
As tradition bids, I have made my New Year’s Resolutions:
Lose another two stone (slow and steady is my [...]
In these the last shivering hours of 2008, I thought a stanza from Lord Tennyson’s poem Ring Out Wild Bells would be appropriate:
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
And then some famous lines from my fellow [...]
