Sewell Park Academy Sewell Park Academy Sewell Park Academy is a secondary school located on the north-eastern edge of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. It has approximately 800 students aged eleven to sixteen (years 7 to 11). It is situated between St. Clements Hill and "Constitution Hill" (B1150), east of New Catton. On the school grounds is the Sewell Barn Theatre. The name of the school comes from Philip Sewell, the brother of Anna Sewell, the author of "Black Beauty". It was The Blyth School, a grammar school, which was built in 1929 in grounds owned by Philip Sewell, who died in
Anna Sewell respects the book can be read as a guide to horse husbandry, stable management and humane training practices for colts. It is considered to have had an effect on reducing cruelty to horses; for example, the use of bearing reins, which are particularly painful for a horse, was one of the practices highlighted in the novel, and in the years after the book's release the reins became less popular and fell out of favour. Sewell sold the novel to Norwich publisher Jarrolds on 24 November 1877, when she was 57 years old. She received a single payment of ₤40 (£3,456