Education: Secondary
YOUNG people are celebrating LGBT History Month by taking pride in their family. The Burnt Mill Academy Trust (BMAT) schools are marking the month-long event with a series of activities. In the west Essex hub of schools, the Pride in Our Family tagline is being…
JOHN Godber’s play from the mid-eighties is an undoubted classic. So much so that it is firmly enshrined in GCSE work at many schools. This reviewer only realised this when they turned up to the Playhouse to find a packed audience from schools across the…
THE HOLOCAUST Educational Trust is currently offering two Harlow College students the opportunity to take part in the upcoming Lessons from Auschwitz Project. The project has run for several years enabling students to experience a trip to Auschwitz before passing on their discoveries to fellow…
This yearly celebration is usually held in the run up to Christmas but had to be postponed due to inclement weather in December. As a Passmores tradition and much anticipated event, it was decided to reschedule the party to take place this term as a…
THE COMPANY that runs Mark Hall Academy has posted a £2.5 million deficit, its accounts have revealed. Birmingham-based The Academy Transformation Trust runs 21 schools across the country. The trust was the subject of an Education and Skills Funding Agency investigation (ESFA) late last year,…
By Chloe McKendrick TELEVISION personality, Trisha Goddard, has revealed that she gave former Harlow College student and now tutor, Naomi Channell her big break in show business. Trisha spoke to students at the college and recalled that she gave Naomi, a former sports student and…
Another First for Passmores Girls in Battle to Win Essex Cup PASSMORES Girls U14 football team have overcome Great Baddow in the Essex Cup semis to set up a dizzying Final against reigning champions, The Eastwood Academy from Leigh-on-Sea. After an excellent defensive and tactical…
By Adam Spartley THE GIBBERD GALLERY is now displaying the works selected for this years Harlow Open. The dazzling array of artwork on display was a fitting backdrop to the colourful characters and creative minds who were in attendance . The Harlow Open is possibly…
BMAT is the top performing Trust nationally for primary outcomes. THE Trust – Burnt Mill Academy Trust – topped the national league tables this week for its results at Little Parndon, Freshwaters, Cooks Spinney and Roydon primary schools, in and near Harlow. Its progress scores…
PASSMORES Academy is again hosting TEDxYouth@Harlow following the resounding success of last year’s event. Linked to the internationally acclaimed TED Conferences held all around the world, young people from the UK and beyond will be sharing innovative ideas on the theme of ‘Making Connections’. Passmores…
A TEACHER who weighed 24 stone and could not run for 30 seconds is training for the London Marathon. Shawki Bakkar, assistant headteacher at Burnt Mill Academy in Harlow, was inspired to lose weight, get fit and take on the mammoth physical challenge after watching…
ALL of Harlow’s secondary schools have passed the new government standard for exams. The secondary school league tables have just been published, featuring the results of the first pupils to sit new, tougher GCSEs in English and maths. The tables allow parents and pupils to…
A real-life lesson in French was given to students on a trip abroad. YEAR 7 and 9 students from Burnt Mill Academy, in Harlow, spent two days putting their language skills to use in France. Students visited markets in Lille and Arras, tried French food…
UP to 22 new schools to be built in Essex over the next decade with 22,000 new school places likely to be needed by 2027 More than 22,000 new school places will be needed across Essex over the next decade, according to a new strategy…
Schools invited to participate in nationwide online safety survey TO mark Safer Internet Day on 6 February 2018, the NSPCC and the London Grid for Learning (LGfL DigiSafe) is urging primary and secondary schools across the UK to take part in a free pupil online…
A day devoted to careers is set to inspire teenagers to strive for ambitious goals. The Burnt Mill Academy Trust (BMAT) is holding its first careers day at Sir Charles Kao UTC, in Harlow. Careers advisor Hayley Lancaster, of All Together, is working with the…
