To Parents and Students of Stewards, I recently came to visit a dear friend of mine at Stewards, her name is Mrs Erwood. She asked me to write about what I have accomplished in the 10 years since graduating as an example of how many…

A level 3, Essex School Games Boccia Competition will take place this week at Mark Hall Academy with VIP guest John Willis. The competition includes a mix of both primary and secondary schools and has been designed to be inclusive, enabling all pupils to participate.…

NEW mums and dads will welcome their babies into the world surrounded by colourful artwork. Creative students at Burnt Mill Academy, in First Avenue, Harlow, have been commissioned to produce a series of paintings to brighten up the maternity unit of the Princess Alexandra Hospital…

Year 7 students at Stewards Academy learned the process of making profit and being enterprising during an energetic week of making and selling their wares to staff and pupils of the Academy. Christmas decorations, raffles, cakes, biscuits and other goodies were sold. Games, tombolas and…

HARDWORKING students have been rewarded…by their fun-loving teachers. As has become tradition among many schools, Burnt Mill Academy, in Harlow, and Forest Hall School, in Stansted, have released their own Christmas videos. The films, featuring hundreds of teachers and school staff, were released online during…

SELFLESS teenagers in Harlow are giving back to their school community after taking the reins of a new pupil-led youth club. The club, opened earlier this year, was initially run by adult volunteers while the young people were trained by Essex County Council’s Youth Service.…

IT’S not just all about the children at Freshwaters Primary Academy. Mums and dads are also getting stuck in with school work and showing their children how important school is. The school, in School Lane, Harlow, is keen for parents to get positively involved in…

HARE STREET school has come top of the class in the annual Standard Assessment Tests (SATS). The primary school performance tables show the number of Year 6 pupils taking SATs tests at each school, the average point score of each school, and the percentage of…

A WEEK-long book fair at Cooks Spinney Primary Academy, in Cooks Spinney, Harlow, helped to develop pupils’ interest in books and reading for pleasure. Every day, teachers held reading sessions after school and gave children and their parents an opportunity to visit the fair to…

THE works of Shakespeare were brought to life during a school festival. Students from Burnt Mill Academy, in First Avenue, Harlow, took part in the Shakespeare for Schools Festival at the Playhouse and took the challenge to turn a piece of work into a 30-minute…

THE magic of Disney will help get a school community in the Christmas spirit. A team of 150 talented students at Burnt Mill Academy, in First Avenue, Harlow, are practising their lines and dance moves ahead of the Celebration of Disney production. The show will…

Nicole Barr hit the headlines recently with a mark of 162 in a test set by high IQ society Mensa – two points higher than the famous geniuses. The score puts her in the top one per cent of intelligent people in the world. Nicole,…

STEWARDS Academy was thrilled to accept the honour of being the only secondary school invited to present at the prestigious biennial Headteachers’ Conference in London for Place2Be, a children’s mental health charity.   HRH The Duchess of Cambridge is the Patron of this charity and her…

OFSTED Annual Report reveals thousands more Essex pupils now attend good or outstanding schools Essex County Council is congratulating Essex schools after Ofsted’s Annual Report showed more than 18,000 extra pupils are attending good or outstanding schools than last year. According to today’s report, which…