Spotlight on ACT Schools

ACT Schools

Well done to all our incredible ACT Schools staff who are working tirelessly to continue supporting our learners during lockdown, many of whom are vulnerable.

The team responded quickly to the Covid-19 situation and have been employing their creative skills to set up challenges for the learners within Google Classrooms to ensure our learners remain engaged. In a recent survey, learners and parents both rated the support from ACT as 4.7/5 stars. An absolutely brilliant result!

Several of our learners are on track to achieve 6 GCSE's or equivalents - our best GCSE grades yet!

GCSE grades have now been determined and we are really pleased with the performance of our learners, several of whom are on track to achieve 6 GCSE's or equivalents - our best GCSE grades yet! Alongside this, Schools have also been working closely with Careers Wales, colleges and local authorities to make sure our learners will be leaving us with positive destinations to move on to. Despite being kept busy with all of the above, the Schools staff morale has also been kept high with team quiz afternoons and some questionable costume choices from some of the staff. We’ll say no more. Keep up the fantastic work guys! We are really proud to share that Logan Turner, a student at our ACT Schools Caerphilly provision was recently awarded Caerphilly Youth Services member of the year. Logan was up against some serious competition so we were delighted to hear of his success. Logan had struck up a lovely relationship with our CEO, Andrew Cooksley, earlier this year when Andrew visited the Caerphilly Schools centre. Speaking about Logan’s achievement, Antony Leach, Caerphilly Schools Centre Manager, commented, “Logan is a lovely young man with huge amounts of potential. All of us at ACT Schools are immensely proud of him. We are disappointed that we have not had the opportunity to spend the last few months of year 11 with him, but knowing he is doing so well away from school makes us so proud. None of us will forget the day he challenged Mr Andrew Cooksley to a bet…and won!”