IT is going to be an emotional time for the Year 11 pupils who are leaving Passmores Academy in July. So the school have put this wonderful video together that we are sure encapsulates the bond that exists between everyone at Passmores Academy.

Essex County Council thanks education and childcare staff in response to wider opening efforts ESSEX has seen a return to primary schools and early years settings begin to take place on a phased, gradual basis. Data made available to Essex County Council (ECC) by the…

FOLLOWING a £1bn package of catch-up support for children announced by the Education Secretary on Friday, Robert Halfon MP, the Leader of Harlow Conservatives and the four Harlow Councillors on Essex Council, are calling on Essex County Council to launch “summer camps” for children in…

APPLICATIONS are welcome for St Luke’s Catholic Nursery. This is for funded child care for three and four year-olds. Fifteen and thirty hours a week funded childcare places are on offer. For more details call 01279 423499 or go to www.st-lukesrc.essex.sch.uk

Plans for re-opening Essex Libraries to be reviewed next week ESSEX County Council’s (ECC) Place Services and Economic Growth Policy and Scrutiny Committee will review plans to re-open Essex Libraries on Thursday 25 June. Earlier this month, ECC announced plans to re-open 16 libraries* from…

GAVIN Williamson tonight suggested class ‘bubbles’ will be doubled to 30 children to get all schools fully up and running in September. The Education Secretary hinted at a doubling of the current group size as he underlined the government’s determination to have ‘every child back…

Potter Street Academy and Purford Green Primary strengthen links with the community during lockdown WAY back at the start of March, when Potter Street Academy and Purford Green Primary began planning for the prospect of school closure due to the Covid 19 outbreak, they knew…

Dear Editor, IT was the fourth week of lock down when I started to hear concerns from residents around the issue of Supermarket Vouchers for those children eligible for FSM (Free School Meals). The concerns were around delays in obtaining vouchers from Edenred and around…

Teachers’ unions have denied suggestions by Conservative MPs they have been “actively obstructive” over the reopening of schools in England. THE House of Commons Education Select Committee, chaired by Harlow MP Robert Halfon, met “virtually” this morning with a rigorous programme of questioning about school…

Children are being set fun challenges to take them away from their online schoolwork – and to protect their mental health. WITH schools closed to the majority of students since the end of March, lessons have been moved to the internet to enable teachers to…

HARLOW LABOUR WELCOMES GOVERNMENT U-TURN ON FREE SCHOOL MEALS HARLOW Labour has welcomed the government’s U-Turn on free school meal vouchers, something they’ve been calling and campaigning for since writing a letter to the local MP on 21st May. Harlow Labour Council Leader Mark Ingall…

HUNDREDS of children across Harlow are keeping busy with creative projects, thanks to a donation of art materials. As part of a national programme, families in the town have been given Let’s Create packs to enable them to access creative learning during lockdown. Teachers at…

HARLOW MP Robert Halfon has been “doing the rounds” on both national television and radio this morning to re-iterate his message to the government that they should extend the free school meals scheme over the summer holidays. Mr Halfon wrote to Vicky Ford MP, the…

Labour calls on the government to fund free school meals over the summer holidays LABOUR will today use an opposition day debate in Parliament to call on the Government to continue to directly fund provision of free school meals, including the free school meal voucher…