Education: Secondary
HARLOW College is celebrating its sixtieth birthday. We will be running a series of news items over the next few months but to start off with, have a look at this collage by the College.
AN incredible 128 young people from schools and clubs across Harlow came together to receive prestigious Jack Petchey Foundation Achievement Awards presented across two awards ceremonies at the Harlow Playhouse on Monday 25th and Wednesday 27th June. The event honoured Achievement Award winners aged 11-25…
AN art café has been set up to raise money for charity. Year 9, 10 and 11 art, photography, textiles and food technology students at Burnt Mill Academy, in Harlow, have been working on the event purely in the name of charity. The 90 students…
THREE principles lie at the heart of Longwood Primary Academy and Nursery’s approach to staff development and wellbeing: teach, rest and play. The school believes that teachers who find a happy balance between work and life outside school are the most productive and enthusiastic reports…
SPINNEY Pre-School has been praised after a recent inspection by Ofsted. The government education watchdog came to the school which is based within Cooks Spinney School near The Stow on June 7th, 2018. The report states The manager gathers the views and thoughts of staff…
WHO better to inspire children to get fit and active than a Team GB athlete. International triple jumper Daniel Lewis put pupils at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, through their paces with a morning of circuit training. The Olympics 2020 hopeful, who competed at the…
THE pond at Pear Tree Mead Academy re-opened recently after two years of fund raising through ‘Friends of Tear Tree Mead. The pond was designed and completed by ‘Women in Waders’ based in Hertfordshire. The whole school are excited to enhance their outdoor learning with…
AS many as 7,700 pupils who were due to complete secondary school in 2017 left mainstream school rolls and either did not take GCSEs or did not count in school league tables, new research from FFT Education Datalab finds. The researchers identify a group of…
Pupils Join Together for a Daring Adventure THERE was plenty of action and adventure for Year 6 pupils from Purford Green Primary and Potter Street Academy recently, when they visited Kingswood Activity Centre in Kent. The three-day residential was the first time many of the…
A school’s cultural shift has put literacy at the centre of everything. Epping St John’s School, in Epping, has been on a journey of transformation over the last couple of years, with students achieving the best results in the school’s history last summer. As work…
EDUCATION watchdog, Ofsted, has highly praised a day nursery that is situated in the grounds of Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). Ofsted visited the nursery in May 2018. The report highlighted the following strengths. Children play and learn happily and contentedly. They form secure bonds with…
