FAMILIES enjoyed celebrating the end of the school year with a BBQ and bounce. The annual end of year celebration gave pupils, staff and families at Little Parndon Primary School, in Park Mead, Harlow, an opportunity to relax and have fun together. Go Bonkers supplied…

STEWARDS Academy held a special event on Tuesday 7th July where 77 pupils who had worked hard across the year, without fear of failure, and demonstrated a thirst for excellence, were invited to Sports Presentation Evening. A spokesperson said: “As teachers we spend most of…

FRESHWATERS Primary Academy, in School Lane, held its first Diversity Week to help children to understand the differences between the families and communities around them. Each class discussed family trees before creating their own, demonstrating no two families are the same. The topics of culture,…

Major building work will transform a Harlow primary school over the summer. With the first phase of redevelopment completed at Cooks Spinney Primary School, in Cooks Spinney, earlier this year, more extensive work is now due to start over the six-week holiday. The new-look school…

Lady Gwen Kao graduated from London University in 1955 and married Sir Charles Kao in 1959 prior to them both joining STL in 1960. Lady Kao was equally part of the discovery of fibre optics, writing many of the Fortran Software Programs used on the…

ON Wednesday 8th July Harlow College held its annual Student Celebration Awards, where the achievements and talents of the college’s successful students were celebrated. It was a wonderful evening and one in which the students played key roles in all aspects of the event, including…

STEWARDS Academy students celebrated becoming “word millionaires” last week, having read more than one million words each in this academic year. In fact collectively, they have read more than 60 million words across 890 books, which is a significant contribution to the total for all…

THE head of five Harlow schools has reassured parents she is not leaving Burnt Mill Academy. Helena Mills has stepped away from her role as headteacher of the school, in First Avenue, to concentrate on raising the standards of all six schools within the Burnt…

A NEW head has been appointed to take Roydon Primary School on the next step of its journey. Jenni Elliott has been promoted from her existing role as assistant head at fellow Burnt Mill Co-operative Academy Trust (BMAT) school Cooks Spinney Primary into the headship.…

CHILDREN within the Burnt Mill Co-operative Academy Trust (BMAT) primary schools in Harlow are celebrating their best ever SATs results. Children at Cooks Spinney Primary School, in Cooks Spinney, and Roydon Primary School, in Epping Road, are achieving higher than ever before since joining the…

A SCHOOL which was failing in all areas in 2013 has been judged to have Good leadership, management and pupil behaviour by Ofsted. Cooks Spinney Primary School, in Cooks Spinney, Harlow, was graded in September 2013 as Requires Improvement. A visit this month – the…

PURFORD Green primary academy in Harlow has received a glowing Ofsted report from the government inspectors. The report is classified as Good and documents the numerous improvements the school has made over the past few years. The report states: Senior leaders have ensured that teaching…

Stewards was selected by Waterloo 200 to be one of two hundred schools across the country invited to attend the service, in the presence of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Edward and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. Stewards was given the…

PASSMORES Academy, assistant head, Russell King is launching a new book called Face Mum today (Monday). It certainly seems like a book for our time but we wanted to find out more. So we popped into the Passmores Academy library to speak to Russell and…