Education: Secondary
STUDENT progress by pupils across the town was recognised at the Harlow Educational Awards of 2019. The awards have grown so much that they were held for the first time in the main auditorium of the Harlow Playhouse. If you wondered about the backdrop,, Jack…
TO help young children to have a better understanding of Brexit and the impending election, a Harlow school held a session on politics and democracy. Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, invited Robert Halfon, Harlow’s most recent MP, and Sky Yarlett, from the Houses of Parliament,…
HARLOW schools will face tougher checks that include Ofsted inspectors arriving in classrooms without notice, Boris Johnson has pledged. The Prime Minister also wants to extend the length of inspections in secondary and large primary schools from two days to three. The extra day would…
CHILDREN in South Africa are helping pupils in Harlow to learn about the wider world. Year 3 pupils at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, have linked up with The Grove Academy in Cape Town, South Africa. As part of their studies, pupils are reading The…
A devoted STEM school has received praise from a visiting politician. Robert Halfon, Harlow’s most recent MP, took a tour of BMAT STEM Academy and met with students studying engineering, computer science and statistics. He said: “What BMAT is doing in Harlow is incredible. I…
Young people are learning the art of communication. ALONGSIDE French, students at Sir Frederick Gibberd College, in Harlow, have the unique opportunity to expand their knowledge through Latin and sign language. A group of 32 students have picked Latin as an additional language to learn,…
CHILDREN needing extra support with their social skills or emotional health are starting to benefit from a new alternative education provision. BMAT is working closely with Essex County Council to offer primary aged pupils in Harlow, who are at risk of being permanently excluded from…
Former “crisis school” crowned happiest in the UK LONGWOOD Primary Academy and Nursery in Harlow has won the Happiest Primary School category in the National Happiness Awards. Four years ago, the school was in special measures with high exclusions. It is now ranked as good,…
A UNIQUE business focused school is sending teenagers out to the world of work once again as part of their studies. Year 11 students at BMAT STEM Academy, in Harlow, undertook a week of work experience earlier this year to get a taste of the…
A LOUD and energetic performance from a rapper got children excited about poetry. Hip hop artist, poet and award-winning author Karl Nova made pupils at Cooks Spinney Primary Academy, in Harlow, look at poetry in a fresh new way during a visit to the school.…
Changing Lives has received the November’s ‘One in a million Award’ CHANGING Lives in Harlow is an early intervention and prevention project that is incredibly pertinent in today’s society. With a 13% rise in recorded serious youth violence offences (10-17-year olds) from 2016/17-2018/19 in Essex,…
A Christmas Carol -Dickens has Year 7 captivated. ON Thursday, a visiting theatre company performed A Christmas Carol for all of Year 7. This Christmas classic is a sentimental and moving text that immersed our students in a Yule-scented melange of hope and faith and…
THE Ongar Academy was thrilled to welcome over 100 potential students, along with their families, to their Sixth Form Information evening. Pulse Netball and Chelsea FC were in attendance, speaking directly to students interested in the elite sporting programme, as well as The Ongar Academy’s…
Longwood Primary is one of the happiest schools in the UK! LONGWOOD Primary Academy, in Harlow, are ‘over the moon’ after being listed as one of the nation’s top four happiest schools! The school, nationally renowned for its work on mental health and wellbeing (TES…
Primary school children took a leap of faith and headed off on a residential trip. YEAR 5 and 6 pupils from Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, spent three days at the Kingwood activity camp in Kent. The group of 37 pupils took part in wall…
