Primary pupils are being given ICT lessons in a specialist technology school. IN an effort to improve lessons in computer skills, Roydon Primary Academy, has teamed up with fellow BMAT school BMAT STEM Academy, in Harlow. Now, the whole ICT curriculum will be taught to…

EXCITED pupils were eager to return to school to move into their brand-new classrooms. Over the summer break, a team of builders set to work at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, to extend the school building to add two extra classrooms. Pupils in Year 2…

A CULTURAL partnership is being set up in Harlow to give young people new experiences through arts and culture. With a mission of broadening horizons and opening up possibilities, the Local Cultural Education Partnership is being launched in association with Royal Opera House Bridge. Anyone…

Plans for Harlow’s brand-new secondary school and sixth form have been unveiled. Sir Frederick Gibberd College is being opened by BMAT to provide a solution to the critical shortage of school places in the town by 2019. A popular open event at the weekend gave…

Admissions are now open for Harlow’s newest secondary school and sixth form. SIR Frederick Gibberd College is being opened by BMAT to provide a solution to the critical shortage of school places in the town by 2019. A fully functioning temporary school building next to…

THE SIR FREDERICK Gibberd College (SFG) is set to open in September 2019. This will be the first new senior school to open in Harlow since the sixties. We sat down with the headteacher, Dee Conlon, to ask a number of key questions about the…

One to one support has helped students with special educational needs to succeed. BURNT Mill Academy, in Harlow, prides itself on the lengths it goes to to support all students to achieve their very best. This year, students were thrilled to secure grades which enable…

THE last cohort of students studying at a former Harlow school have collected their GCSE results. Year 11 students at Sir Charles Kao UTC are the last to pass through the facility, before it is closed and reopened in September as BMAT STEM Academy. The…

Burnt Mill Academy is once again celebrating “outstanding” GCSE results. AS one of the top achieving schools in the country, more than half of Year 11 students at the school, in Harlow, achieved the new grade 5 – considered a strong pass nationally – in…

POSITIVE exam results released today are a sign of things to come at a brand-new school due to open in September, according to the head. Sir Charles Kao UTC, in Harlow, became part of the BMAT group of schools earlier this year. The Trust immediately…

A SCHOOL dedicated to STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects is waving students off to futures full of prospects. Year 13 students at the new BMAT STEM Academy, in Harlow, have secured themselves high-level apprenticeships and offers of prestigious university places. The school focuses…

MORE than 100 students pulled together a West End-quality production of School of Rock. Singers, dancers, actors and technical teams from Burnt Mill Academy, in Harlow, were trained to professional standard to put on the full-length show. The Year 7 to 11 students spent hundreds…

CHILDREN with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are enjoying a full physical education programme in Harlow. Pupils from the town’s BMAT primary schools – Cooks Spinney, Freshwaters and Little Parndon – who historically may have sat out of PE lessons are now thriving in…

A ONCE-in-a-lifetime trip saw teenagers experience the Blue Lagoon and a walk over a volcano. Year 10 and 11 students from Burnt Mill Academy were given the opportunity to take the experiential trip as part of their geography and science GCSE courses. The 23 students…