Edited sentence: It hopes to become a modern academy in september 2011.On the 15th of July 2011, 44 pupils from West Hill are going to Kenya for 28 days; it is in aid of their Duke Of Edinburgh award.The school governors applied for this status in the spring term of 2011.The school has shown high standards from its early years, always trying to give something back into the local community, and further afield.Whilst there they will be doing a wide variety of different things; they will be climbing Mount Kenya (the second highest peak in Africa after Kilimanjaro) they will be helping build and decorate a primary school, going on safari and of course they deserve some down time on the beach