Education: Secondary
A HEADTEACHERS’ union has warned that schools will be unable to hit the government’s target for all primary school pupils to be back in classrooms before the summer holidays reports The Independent. In a major blow to the lockdown easing plans, the National Association of…
IN his role as Chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon MP has been working with his cross-Party Committee colleagues to call on the Government to address the “lengthy delays” and problems experienced by parents and schools accessing Free School Meal…
HERE is a lovely collage made by the staff at Pear Tree Mead Primary in Harlow. They simply wanted the pupils to know that they miss them very much. Perhaps the songs chosen sum up the mood: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and “Lean On Me”…
HARLOW MP Robert Halfon has expressed his disappointment with the Department for Education Chief Scientific Science Adviser in the answers given to his questions in a House of Commons committee on Wednesday morning. Mr Halfon said: “They lacked detail, amounted to buck-passing and did not…
THE PUPILS AT William Martin school have been learning a great deal at home. Last week, they did a great deal of work on VE Day. One of the year 3 pupils created a short movie called “Victory 75”. He wrote the script; made the…
Survey of Harlow schools reveal 20% of schools surveyed were aware of children going hungry during the Covid-19 crisis. By Frances Mason Councillor for Toddbrook TRYING to understand the problems parents were disclosing around the Free School Meals Supermarket Voucher system, Councillor Mark Ingall, requested…
THE Department for Education’s chief scientific adviser admitted he has not assessed whether guidance on reopening schools is effective, adding the current advice is “draft” and “will be developed” reports schoolsweek.co.uk Appearing in front of the Parliamentary science and technology committee on Wednesday, Osama Rahman…
“You miss your school and we miss you too!” THE opening words to a poem written by staff at Little Parndon Primary Academy, in Harlow, to show pupils they care. The message features in a series of photographs of members of the team holding up…
Young mathematicians are continuing to rock their schoolwork at home. PUPILS at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, have spent the last year indulging in maths while having fun as part of the Times Tables Rock Stars scheme. The programme gives children daily times tables practice…
THERE is an “ambition” for all primary school children in England to spend a month back at school before the summer holidays, says the government’s updated Covid-19 guidance reports the BBC. But to support social distancing there will be class sizes of no more than…
Dear Editor, I FOUND myself incensed by the headline in the Mail on Sunday this week. Now some might say that’s no surprise for a ‘lefty’ like me. But usually I am quite good at taking what the Mail says with a pinch of salt.…
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has said schools will not start to reopen until June 1 ‘at the earliest’ as he outlined his plan to lift the coronavirus lockdown. The PM said pupils in reception, Year 1 and Year 6 will be the first to go…
STAFF at Freshwaters Primary Academy wanted all their children to know that they miss them. So Headteacher Mrs Diggle and staff all created a word to write a special message to the children. As you can see they have created a wonderful collage of care.
A school kitchen has donated its leftover food to the homeless people of Harlow. THE catering team at Cooks Spinney Primary Academy were keen to put their food stocks to good use during the Coronavirus lockdown. Using ingredients which would go out of date before…
A FAN of the outdoors, teenager James Davis was not keen on being locked down. Instead, he has spent the last month camping in his back garden – and has raised almost £1,000 for the NHS in the process. The Year 8 student from Epping…
HERE is Passmores Academy VE Day 75 celebration video. Passmores Academy are thankful for the sacrifices made in the past, sacrifices that are being made today and those that will be made in the future. To those men and women, they thank you.
