The Northumberland CE Academy is an all-through school with campuses in Ashington, Newbiggin and Lynemouth. I joined the Newbiggin campus as a supply teacher during the September of its inaugural year. At the time, parents and students were very sceptical and anxious about the changing educational landscape in Newbiggin.
Newbiggin had been a bustling fishing and mining town in the past, however due to the closing of the mines and the rise in the cost associated with fishing, unemployment became very high and aspirations low.
This, mingled with an ever-changing leadership structure within the school and a high turnover of staff, caused a few parents to become understandably tense; some even moved their children to other local schools.
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