Potter Street Academy celebrates recognition at Harlow Educational Progress Awards  POTTER Street Academy is celebrating the success of one of its inspirational pupils who has won the Outstanding Student Progression Award for KS1 & 2 and was also voted the overall winner at Harlow Council’s…

WILLIAM Martin Schools are celebrating that they have successfully continued to provide Parent workshops to their school community throughout both National Lockdowns. Bonnie Jones, Pastoral Manager, has worked tirelessly alongside Joanne Ingall, Adult Community Learning (ACL) to ensure that the ACL workshops, which support an increasing…

HOLY Cross Catholic Church is continuing to live stream masses. There was a short break due to Covid-19 but now the Tracyes Road church is back on-line. We have been impressed in the way that all faiths have remained engaged with their communities both on…

Ambitious children have earned their classmates a visit from a published author. PUPILS at Little Parndon Primary Academy, in Harlow, entered the Collins Big Cat 1000 book competition which challenged them to decide what career a book character should have. The competition sparked discussion around…

SCHOOLS in England will not be able to fully re-open after the half-term break next month but could begin to return from 8 March, the prime minister has said. Boris Johnson said a final decision would depend on meeting vaccination targets and schools would get…

ON WORLD Holocaust Day, Harlow MP Robert Halfon was invited by BBC Radio 4 to tell listeners why Sophie Scholl was such an inspiration to him. Sophia Magdalena Scholl: 9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active…

MUSICAL children are rediscovering their voices as they sing once again to take care of their mental health. Since March last year, schools have been unable to run extra-curricular singing or music clubs due to Covid-19 safety restrictions. Realising the impact this had had on…

WE do like to drop in on Cooks Spinney Primary Academy and see what they are doing on social media. They have a fabulous presence on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Today we drop in as they teach pupils to draw Ray the Pilot Snail. https://www.youtube.com/embed/PR4vfBvQgpQ

ASDA has today announced that it is working with Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) to provide 7,000 laptops to schools across the UK to help those children who are at risk of falling behind in their education because they do not have the technology to take…

CHILDREN in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the…

Laptops to Help Children to Study at Home “CLOSING the Digital Divide” is an Essex County Council initiative, aimed at providing laptops to children and young people, who would otherwise be without access to a device at home. By the end of next week, some…

HARLOW MP Robert Halfon has detailed what he believes the government will be doing in relation to free school meals. Mr Halfon said: “There has been a lot of misreporting about the provision of free rnmen school meals over the February half-term. I thought it…

PARENTS thank Potter Street Academy and Purford Green Primary staff for doing ‘an amazing job’ with home learning  The last nine months have undoubtably presented some of the biggest challenges schools and parents have ever faced in education. When schools first had to provide home…

PARENTS have praised a primary school for its remote learning package for children, describing the provision as “wonderful”, “incredible” and “excellent”. With national lockdown in place, schools have once again been instructed to partially close, with just vulnerable children and those with key worker parents…