Education: Secondary
STEWARDS Academy is delighted to have achieved the 2024 PTI Subject Leadership Mark for Art and DT. Art has been awarded every year since 2018 and DT have been awarded for the second year, after being the first department in the country to be awarded…
CHILDREN as young as nine have been added to malicious WhatsApp groups promoting self-harm, sexual violence and racism, a BBC investigation has found. Thousands of parents with children at schools have been sent a warning issued by the authorities. WhatsApp owner Meta said all users…
VIRTUAL reality therapy for people suffering from mental health disorders, using AI to manage demand on NHS services, and technology that listens to a child’s cough to assist early diagnoses are among the Essex innovations that have received thousands of pounds of funding from Arise…
PASSMORES Academy and Stewards Academy were absolutely delighted to welcome our year 10 and 11 students to our joint Careers Fair on Wednesday 9th October 2024, held at the Harlow Study Centre. It was a highly successful event, and was buzzing from start to finish.…
A MEDICAL student at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has won £20k in funding to further develop his medical app that uses artificial intelligence to assist doctors. Medily AI has been designed by 4th-year student Talha Mehmood to improve patient care and streamline clinical decision-making by…
COME and celebrate Earth Science Week at Harlow Museum! Next Saturday, 19th October, from 10am to 1pm At 11am, Essex Rock and Mineral Society will be giving a talk which will delve into the longest history of Essex – the past 500 million years! Learn…
STEWARDS Academy welcomed KS4 parents/ carers and students to a Parents’ Information Evening this week. This was an opportunity to hear about how Stewards supports our young adults through their GCSEs and to prepare for the next steps in their educational journey. Short talks were…
IF you want to know how busy it was at the Stewards Academy Open Evening, then we had to park over at the Great Parndon car park on Abercrombie Way. But that may be a sign of the amount of interest there has been in…
THE Rt Hon Robert Halfon, former Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education for the Department for Education, and former MP for Harlow, has officially started his new role as Chair of Stansted Airport College (STAC) Advisory Group. The STAC Advisory Board was…
IT was a mark of how popular the St Mark’s West Essex Catholic School open evening was by the fact that the assembly hall was packed twenty minutes before the headteacher John Taylor was due to speak. Even before he spoke, every prospective parent had…
WITH 8% (4.4 million) of adults in the UK lacking the necessary essential digital skills for everyday life and 54% of working age adults in the UK missing the digital basics around online safety, productivity and more[1], ACL Essex is supporting Get Online Week to…
CHILDREN and young people in England with special educational needs, including severe autism, are to be offered NHS eyesight, dental and ear checks in their schools from next year reports the BBC. Students with learning disabilities can struggle to say when they experience problems, meaning…
ACL Community Family Learning Event. Full details below.
PREPARATIONS are underway for their whole school open morning this Saturday!. Come experience their nurturing environment, meet the passionate staff, and explore the exceptional opportunities they offer. 9-10am: EYFS10am-12pm: Year 1 to Year 11. Register today! https://www.saintnicholasschool.net/admissions/saint-nicholas-october-open-morning
PARENTS and carers can find out about local Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) support at four free information sessions taking place over the coming months. The sessions, which are part of Essex County Council’s ongoing SEND roadshows, are being held at four new locations…
SIXTH formers at St Mark’s West Essex Catholic School hosted a charity coffee morning at the school recently. A variety of cakes were on display at the staff room in the Tripton Road school. The morning was in order to raise money for Macmillan. The…
