Whether you're an ex-student, a local citizen, a former staff member, or just an all-round kind person, please consider donating to this great cause.

Today's Sewell Park Academy is based on the site of many well-known earlier Norwich schools, including Sewell Park College, The Blyth-Jex School and Blyth Girls Grammar.

You may have caught glimpses of this lovely floor under protective mats in the foyer of the main building on St Clements and Constitution Hill.

Today's Sewell Park logo was created directly from a photo of one of the fronds of the mosaic floor, created in 1929!

We understand that the spray of rowan (leaves and berries) repeated in the mosaic pattern was an emblem of the Girls' Municipal Secondary School on Duke Street, before it moved to the current site/building in 1929. There were photos of the students wearing white dresses and waving rowan branches on Empire Day.

When the school became the Blyth Secondary School for Girls in 1929, the rowan was incorporated into the design of the Italian marble mosaic of the entrance lobby and the intertwined letters BSS became the hat badge, depicted in red, for the new school uniform.

Fast-forward!

Comprehensive secondary education in Norfolk ... The Blyth-Jex School ... The Kett Sixth Form ... Year 7 transfer and new buildings ... Sewell Park College ... Sewell Park Academy ...

The mosaic floor survived all of this - and now it needs help! Please consider donating to our worthwhile cause.

Many thanks for your time in reading our story; your interest is sincerely appreciated.

We will be adding more about the history of the floor to the school website. In the meantime, we are extremely grateful to former Deputy Headteacher Ms Debra Spooner for the information she has passed on to us.

If you have information or recollections linked to this project, please post it here or contact us on sewell.ptfa@gmail.com