Education: Secondary
YEAR 2 pupils at Cooks Spinney Primary School, in Cooks Spinney, Harlow, were given passports and travelled to five different countries. The focus was on Ghana, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Mexico and India, with classrooms being set up with cultural activities from each country. Jenni…
BURNT Mill Academy, in First Avenue, has already been awarded £5,000 for its success in closing the gap between the achievements of children from poor and affluent backgrounds. They are among just 16 schools in the eastern region to be awarded the Department for Education…
YOUNG politicians got to pose their questions to Parliamentary hopeful Suzy Stride. The Labour candidate visited Year 6 pupils at Freshwaters Primary Academy, in School Lane, Harlow, to explain the world of politics to them. The visit follows on from Inspiring The Future Week where…
GOVERNMENT figures have revealed that St Marks School, once again, tops the table for the number of students achieving the English Baccalaureate. The Ebacc subjects are: English, Maths, a science, a humanities subject and a language. The push for a return to the more traditional…
St Mark’s Year 7 sing at the 02 Arena 100 pupils from Year 7 at St Mark’s West Essex Catholic School, took part in Young Voices at the 02 Arena on Wednesday 28 January, joining 7,500 other young people in the largest young people’s concert…
CHILDREN are being inspired to get to school on time every day by a pair of cuddly toys. Einstein the monkey and Peggy the bird are the stuffed pets who are managing to entice children to make attendance and punctuality a priority at Freshwaters Primary…
By Siobhan Wood Photo courtesy of Harlow College HARLOW College marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a ceremony to dedicate artwork created by Visual Arts students. Harlow MP Robert Halfon led the ceremony in memory of Holocaust victims, which was attended by staff, students and the…
Champion parents are pulling out the stops to make their school – and their children – the best they can be. Freshwaters Primary Academy, in School Lane, Harlow, has done away with the traditional PTA where parents are given set roles and instead invited any…
IT was an amazing day for Harlow College last week as a star of the hit BBC One show, The Apprentice, Felipe Alviar-Baquero visited the campus to meet with local students and apprentices. Felipe was invited to the town by local MP Robert Halfon, who…
THAT is probably grammatically incorrect, then again, so was Ich Bin Ein Berliner but last night (Friday), Passmores Academy was lit up in the red, white and blue colours of the Passmores Academy flag. It was heartening to see the school make such a stance…
A LARGE sinkhole has appeared in Cooks Spinney Primary School in Harlow. The school’s Twitter feed alerted parents to the hazard this morning (Tuesday). According to the school, the hole has appeared in the lower hall. It appears that lessons are going on as normal.…
By Siobhan Wood HARLOW College continued to celebrate its fifty years of journalism by hosting a historical episode of BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions. It was the first time that five guests had sat on the panel, all of whom were Prospective Parliamentary Candidates. The…
A STAR of the hit BBC One show, The Apprentice, will be visiting Harlow College next Monday (12th January) to meet with local apprentices and talk to them about their aspirations. Felipe Alviar-Baquero, a solicitor for an international law firm, made it all the way…
AS the deadline approaches, Essex County Council is reminding parents to apply for primary school places for September 2015. Parents and carers of children born during the period 1 September 2010 and 31 August 2011 must apply by 15 January 2015 for primary school places…
WE THINK the film says it all….
THE young people of Harlow have been given a new voice following the latest Young Essex Assembly (YEA) election. Some 75 young people from across the county have been elected to the YEA – the youth council for Essex – including seven in the Harlow…
