"We've been sitting at the end of prayer each day and praying for peace," Yasmine Gharbieh, an eighth grader at Garland's Muslim school Brighter Horizons Academy, told VICE News.
Bright Tribe Multi-Academy Trust was incorporated in July 2012, with two charities named as its founders: the Helping Hands Trust and the My World Trust.
In Rome — the plane tickets were surely the costliest items in this production — Isabella attends a class at some kind of exorcism academy, where bright young things in clerical black discuss how to tell the difference between the mentally ill and the possessed.
Dana Ross-Wawryzynski, chief executive of the Bright Futures Educational Trust academy chain, based in the North West, becomes a dame.
Inside, the academy is as bright and airy as it is generously proportioned and clearly planned.
About 100 members of Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy, dressed in bright yellow sweatshirts, danced with a streaming dragon that extended the length of a block.
"Academically bright, she has been in the academy choir and has loved singing and dancing.
Last November the then education secretary, Nicky Morgan, awarded Stockport-based Bright Tribe, one of five "top performing academy sponsors", an undisclosed share of £5m to take on struggling non-academy schools.
Speak to those in the know, and they'll tell you Barkley looked destined for a bright future ever since he joined the academy at the tender age of 11.
Amanda Bailey is associate principal with the Bright Futures Educational Trust (BFET); a multi-academy Trust of six schools in the north west.
As the Air Force's role in handling nuclear weapons became a less prominent part of its mission, the service has done little to entice the brightest and most professional graduates of its academy into the nuclear arena.
