This year, the fourth Creative Education Trust Creative Writing Competition took place virtually with year 8 competition finalists and English teachers joining children’s author and television screenwriter, Harry Oulton, in an online workshop.

During the national lockdown we moved our printed cross-Trust magazine online, publishing fortnightly news stories and articles in Still Connected. 

After an unprecedented year in which schools were closed and public examinations did not take place, Creative Education Trust congratulates every year 11 and year 13 pupil for their tenacity in completing the necessary requirements of their courses of study. A sample of the outstanding results inclu...

The Department for Education has published its guidelines for the full opening of schools in September, built on the critical need to reduce the number of contacts between children and staff. This is to be achieved both by keeping groups consistent (the same individuals always together) and by keepi...

This year saw the relaunch of Creative Education Trust’s much-loved photography competition, inspired by the late Michael Dickson who was a founding trustee.

Update 29 May 2020

Update 18 May 2020

From Monday 23 March Creative Education Trust schools will be closed to most pupils until further notice.

Artist and map-maker, Mychael Barratt, visited Thistley Hough Academy on 5 February to present his narrative maps to year 9s and support their research about Stoke-on-Trent.

On Friday 31 January, specially selected experts – year 9 students themselves – travelled to London from as far as Nottingham, Great Yarmouth and Stoke-on-Trent for an important research event.

Sixth year of CET Shakespeare festival sees 200 students take to the stage over two days.

Sixteen finalists competed for Creative Education Trust's 2019 sixth form prizes in public-speaking and essay writing. 

Over 40 students from six sixth forms attended the Creative Collaboration Prize final event in London on 18 September, drawing to a close the second year of the competition. 

The third annual Creative Education Trust creative writing competition saw 14 finalists from seven schools spend a day at the British Film Institute in the summer of 2019.

Abbeyfield School, Northampton, won 'Secondary School of the Year' at the inaugural Northamptonshire Education Awards in July.