EIGHTY KS3 students from Stewards Academy took part in the Junior Maths Challenge 2017 with great success. The challenge involves students answering 25 questions under exam conditions with results compared to schools across the UK.  The top 40% of students nationally receive a gold, silver…

IN April, we travelled to France and Belgium, as a part of our history trip – to well and truly understand the consequences of the First World War. To show us the traumatic events that took place right in front of our very eyes, like…

THERE were brilliant efforts all-round, and some excellent finishes, as the Essex County FA hosted the Under 14s Boys and Girls East Region Futsal Finals on Sunday 4th June at the Copper Box Arena in East London. Essex’s Under 14s representatives were Harlow’s Passmores Academy…

Little Parndon Primary Academy kicked off their enterprise project today with special guest Max McMurdo. http://www.maxmcmurdo.co.uk/ The entrepreneurial upcycler presented a special assembly which included a video of his appearance on the BBC programme ‘Dragons Den.’ He explained what it was like going up in…

STEWARDS Academy welcomed representatives from the National Citizen Service (NCS) in to a recent year 11 assembly to celebrate our achievement in getting students involved. With 70 students ready to take part in this year’s programme Stewards is number one in Essex and second in…

PASSMORES Academy Year 9 GCSE music pupils were treated to a morning workshop from Essex Music Hub’s ‘5Live Wind Quintet’ on Friday 26th May. The morning began with a formal ensemble performance of a number of pieces arranged for quintet (flute, oboe, French horn, clarinet…

POTTER Street Academy has been told it must improve by government inspectors Ofsted. The school was inspected on April 20th, 2017. The report states: The quality of teaching, learning and assessment over time varies too much across classes and subjects. The most able pupils are…

Stewards Academy: Raspberry Pi Club ‘Pi Wars’ competition STEWARDS Academy students from the Raspberry Pi computer programming club won their way into the semi-finals at the Pi Noon event during the annual Pi Wars challenge held in Cambridge University. The team also undertook challenges including:…

NET Academies Harlow represent West Ham United NET Academies Harlow beat 92 schools to represent West Ham at the Premier League National School’s Final tournament at Stamford Bridge. After being crowned NET Academies Trust the West Ham Foundation Regional under 11 Mixed Premier League School’s…

STEWARDS Academy drew an enthusiastic audience to support their third Cultural Fashion Event. All of the 180 pupils involved were members of the longstanding and award-winning Ethnic Minority Pupil Voice group (EMPV). Organiser Eman Mohamed along with the Heads of EMPV Adam Fleming and Tania…

Stewards Academy: Speak Out Challenge ETHAN Baldry represented Stewards Academy at the Jack Petchey ‘Speak Out Challenge’ regional final at Passmores Academy on Wednesday 10th May. He was selected after his successful participation in a workshop designed to improve confidence in public speaking and his…

STEWARDS Academy is very proud of year 9 pupil Libby Morland-Banks for her latest selfless act for a good cause. She was a recipient of the Jack Petchey award last year when she cut off 17cm of her hair for the Little Princess Trust. This…

POPULAR beat combo Kasabian played Burnt Mill Academy. The groovy hipsters played all their hits as part of the Christian O’Connell show on Absolute Radio. Staff and students loved it. Later on the DJ opened a new music room at the First Avenue school.