HARLOW PARENTS have urged fellow residents to get behind a petition to help prevent a special needs school from closing early on a Friday. Oak View school in Loughton has had to make the difficult decision to close the school early on a Friday from…

ST MARK’S West Essex Catholic School welcome you to their first virtual open day. The following is a message from headteacher, Elaine Heaphy AT St Mark’s our first and most important principle for reopening is safety. We believe that we are unable to accommodate visitors onto…

From:Cllr David Finch, Leader Essex County CouncilCllr Ray Gooding, Cabinet Member for EducationClare Kershaw, Essex County Council’s Director of EducationDr Mike Gogarty, Essex County Council’s Director of Wellbeing, Public Health and Communities Dear parents and carers of Essex school and college pupils, IN the last…

WILLIAM Martin CofE School on Tawneys Road, was thrilled to learn that one of their pupils, Mya-Faith Gibson aged 7, won the Corona Heroes Badge Competition organised by the Rt. Hon. Robert Halfon MP over the lockdown period.  The competition was an opportunity for children to…

Sir, THE extent of school funding cuts across the country, as revealed in the Times Educational Supplement should come as no surprise to anyone. https://www.yourharlow.com/2020/09/18/school-spending-falls-by-almost-ten-percent/ Serious cuts to school budgets were planned long before the 2017 election and those cuts are having consequences. Coronavirus has…

Popular Passmores teacher takes to the skies in charity skydive challenge WHAT’S scarier than taking control of a class full of teenagers? Skydiving at 15,000 feet! But that’s exactly what Assistant Principal of Passmores Academy, Rebecca Conway, will be doing when she bravely goes on…

SCHOOL spending per pupil in England fell by 9 per cent in real terms between 2009-10 and 2019-20, a new analysis found. Although these cuts come on the back of a significant increase in spending per pupil during the 2000s, this is still the largest cut in 40…

STUDENTS, staff and parents have been welcomed back to William Martin C of E Schools and Nursery. The school, based on Tawneys Road, has a proud tradition of being a community-minded organisation and so all involved have been delighted to see the doors open again.…

By Local Democracy Reporter Piers Meyler THE amount spent on special educational needs in Essex is estimated to be twice what it was thought to cost just two years ago. In May 2018, Essex County Council’s cabinet reimplemented the system by which  individual packages of…

A SURVEY of the area around the site of an Augustinian priory near Harlow, has uncovered the location of an annual medieval fair granted to the priory’s patron by Edward III in 1332 reports archaeology.co.uk The date of origin and identity of the founder of…

THE 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain was marked at North Weald’s St. Andrew’s Church and at the airfield itself. North Weald airfield played a vital role in the war effort with fighter planes, mainly Hurricanes, flying from there in the Battle of Britain…

AS schools across Essex start their autumn term, parents of Year 6 pupils are being reminded that it will soon be time to apply for their child’s September 2021 secondary school place.Parents and carers can now apply online for their child’s Year 7 secondary school…

EIGHT recommendations have been made to help tackle the effect of county lines on the life chances of young people – including seeking to minimise school exclusions. Essex County Council (ECC) figures suggest a dramatic increase in violent and disruptive behaviour, leading to a subsequent…

THREE community minded Stewards Academy students have raised hundreds for charity. Friends James Bull (year 7) and Ryan Campling (year 8) organised a cake sale to raise funds for St Clare Hospice. They wrote out invitations and invited neighbours and friends. On the day they…