MORE than 14,000 pupils who are due to start primary school in Essex this year have been offered their parent’s top preference of school. Just over 16,000 parents in Essex will today (Thursday 16 April 2020) discover the outcome of their primary school place application,…

A HARLOW primary school has been recognised with a prestigious physical education award. Pear Tree Mead Primary Academy has been give the Association for Physical Education (AfPE Quality Mark) distinction. This award is an extremely prestigious award that evidences the strengths and quality of Physical…

A SCHOOL has been awarded for the care it has shown to the wellbeing of its staff during the Coronavirus shutdown. Sir Frederick Gibberd College, in Harlow, has received the Teach Well School Gold Award: Corona Virus Pandemic for taking care of the physical and…

A CROWDFUNDER has been set up in order to to raise funds to help finance face shields made by Harlow College. The message from the crowdfunder website is as follows: THERE is so much to do and seems like so little time. Every NHS worker…

DAVID Simmons is the man behind the Changing Lives programme. He is also a primary school teacher. We know he would step up to the mark during these testing times and so it has proven with a series of exercise videos. David said: “This workout…

CHILDREN who are attending school to allow their key worker parents to continue working during the Coronavirus outbreak have produced special messages of thanks. Year 7 students who are attending Sir Frederick Gibberd College, in Harlow, while their parents work in the hospital, for the…

ROBERT Halfon, MP, Chair of the Education Select Committee today issues a stark warning that the Covid-19 lockdown is dealing a hammer blow to the UK’s most disadvantaged learners with school closures about to enter their second month. Warning that a ‘wave of lost potential’…

KATHERINES Primary Academy has been doing a wonderful job educating their students in these difficult times. Staff have put this little film together to tell their pupils they miss them very much.

Primary school pupils thank our NHS heroes PUPILS at Purford Green Primary, Potter Street Academy and The Downs Primary demonstrated their love and support for NHS workers with a challenge unlike any they have ever done before. Whilst singing the chorus of the Queen classic,…

THERE is probably no more dynamic a headteacher or indeed executive headteacher than Allan Osborne at The Ongar Academy. Anyone who follows the school and its satellite primary schools on social media alone will know it is a blizzard of activity. So we thought we…

Essex Libraries eAudio and eBook users rise during COVID-19 lockdown THE number of people accessing eAudio and eBooks from Essex Libraries has risen during the COVID-19 lockdown. Book lovers accessing Essex Libraries eAudio and eBook service Borrowbox have increased by 22 per cent over the…

STAFF at Passmores Academy would like to thank all the staff at the NHS for all they are doing to keep us safe. This little video to shows just how much they are appreciated: Music credit: Music Credit // Somewhere over the Rainbow by Israel…

WE are really really enjoying all the stories of the day. Today’s story of the day is from Katherine Primary Academy’s Mrs Platt. She is reading “The Smartest Giant in Town” by Julia Donaldson.

A YOUNG man from Harlow wanted to cheer everyone up so he decorated his front wall. The plan was for George and his brothers to chalk each individual brick at the front of their house in The Dashes a different colour. The initial plan was…