LOCAL ART STUDENTS MAKE LIFELONG GIFTS FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN ART students at Pear Tree Mead Academy have joined the Memory Project, a charitable nonprofit organization that invites art teachers and their students to create and donate portraits to youth around the world who have faced…

YEAR 5 pupils from Potter Street Academy and Purford Green Primary experienced life at secondary school when they spent a week at partner school, Passmores Academy recently. A range of interesting activities and lessons were organised which kept the pupils on their toes and introduced…

SHOCKED pupils arrived in school to find a murder scene in their classroom. Instead of panicking, Year 5 pupils at Freshwaters Primary Academy, in Harlow, donned their overalls and launched an investigation. The year group has been studying Macbeth and on finding the murder scene,…

ACTIVE youngsters in Roydon are improving their lifestyles by taking part in the Daily Mile. The initiative encourages children to run, jog or walk for 15 minutes each day to improve their physical, social, emotional and mental health and wellbeing. Schools up and down the…

PEMBERLEY Academy has been judged as Good by OFSTED this month, which is the first formal inspection since the school opened in September 2015. The 2 day inspection which judges primary schools across 5 keys areas being outcomes, Behaviour and welfare, quality of teaching, early…

TRIBUTES have been paid to a Harlow lollipop man who has died. Kevin Fewell, was a lollipop man from William Martin school on Tawneys Road in Harlow. A spokesperson for Essex County Council said: “We were greatly saddened to learn of the sudden passing of…

CHILDREN got a unique opportunity to watch the dress rehearsal of a West End show. A group of 60 Year 4 pupils from Cooks Spinney Primary Academy, in Harlow, were invited by Disney to get a behind the scenes look at the Lion King. The…

CHURCH Langley Primary has been praised by school inspectors, Ofsted, after a short inspecton. The government watchdog came to the school in April, 2018. The report states: The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Pupils…

THE Saint Nicholas school gymnasts have taken the top spot at the Harlow Key Steps Gymnastics Competition held last Thursday. After some strong competition from the other Harlow schools that took part, Saint Nicholas School secured success in both the Key Stage 1 and Key…

MORE than 14,000 pupils who are due to start primary school in Essex for the first time from September have been offered their parents’ top preference of school. About 16,000 parents in the county will discover the outcome of their primary school applications today (April…

Young Writers Are Out of This World REPORTS of UFOs and alien crash landings were the inspiration of the extraterrestrial-themed ‘Everybody Writes’ day, held at Purford Green Primary and Potter Street Academy recently. Staff worked the evening before the event to set the scene of…

HALF a million skips were achieved by youngsters in Harlow doing their bit for Sport Relief. The schools within the Burnt Mill Academy Trust (BMAT) in the town were set the challenge of skipping 500,000 skips during the charity event. Throughout the day, a total…

COCKROACHES, snakes and lizards were found in a primary school – much to the delight of pupils. Cooks Spinney Primary Academy, in Harlow, welcomed in the reptiles as part of its latest Wow day. The school gets enthusiasm for every new topic started with a…

A WWII evacuee helped pupils to understand their history lessons. Year 5 and 6 pupils from Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, visited Imperial War Museum Duxford as part of their studies around the world wars. The 70 pupils followed an education trail around the hangars,…