March 15 2024 | Featured News, Latest News
A group of Year 9 pupils who participated in a life skill cooking course now have their hearts set on competing in the Young Chef Schools Competition with Nigel Howarth. 24 pupils from Highfield Leadership Academy have been learning how to cook affordable, healthy...
December 19 2023 | Featured News, Latest News
As the winter nights draw in and the temperatures plummet, pupils from Highfield Leadership Academy are spreading seasonal cheer throughout their community by supporting local people through its Winter Gift Programme. At Highfield Leadership Academy, we pride...
August 24 2023 | Featured News, Latest News
Pupils at Highfield Leadership Academy are celebrating today after receiving their GCSE and BTec results. Despite the disruption to learning over the past few years, exams were marked and graded in the normal way this summer, as they would have been before the...
May 10 2023 | Featured News, Latest News
Pupils from Highfield Leadership Academy gave up their own time to organise a party for local people living in sheltered accommodation to celebrate the Coronation. Inspiring volunteers from the Blackpool secondary school hosted the event, at the Lostock Community...
March 21 2023 | Featured News, Latest News
Hundreds of pounds have been raised by pupils at Highfield Leadership Academy in a sleepover at the school, in support of a youth work charity. Taking part in the school’s annual ‘Bill’s Big Sleep In’, pupils have raised £400 for Blackpool’s ‘Streetlife’, to coincide...
December 6 2022 | Featured News, Latest News
A delegate of Highfield Leadership Academy pupils visited one of the world’s most prestigious universities to learn about life as an undergraduate student and to inspire them to study at the most competitive institutions. Year 11 pupils took part in a two-day visit to...
September 8 2022 | Featured News, Latest News
Sir Mufti Hamid Patel CBE: “The Star family is extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We wish to express our deepest sympathies to the Royal Family and to the nation as a whole. “By any measure, Her Majesty’s dedication to the UK...
August 25 2022 | Featured News
The Highfield Leadership Academy community is celebrating after its pupils overcame the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic to complete their GCSEs. Sitting exams for the first time since 2019, pupils have valiantly overcome two years of disruption to their education,...
August 2 2022 | Latest News
Pupils from Highfield Leadership Academy heard a first-hand account from a Holocaust survivor on a visit to the secondary school. Harry Kessler spoke to year 8 and 9 pupils about his experiences fleeing persecution in both Austria and Czecholsovakia during Nazi...
June 5 2022 | Latest News
Pupils from Highfield Leadership Academy volunteered their time to organise a special Platinum Jubilee party for residents from Blackpool Coastal Housing (BCH), in a bid to tackle social isolation and loneliness. The party was the latest in a series of befriending...