YOUNG musicians are being introduced to opportunities within their home town. A group of 40 GCSE music students from Burnt Mill Academy, in Harlow, attended a performance by Harlow Symphony Orchestra at St John’s Arts. Cristin Casey, curriculum director of performing arts for the BMAT…

Children treated the special women in their life to a day at school. ROYDON Primary Academy, invited mums, nans, aunts, sisters and stepmums to spend an afternoon with their children to mark Mother’s Day. Pupils and their 100 guests made arts and crafts together and…

Local college supports St Clare’s Heart your Hospice community art project WEST Essex and East Herts charity, St Clare Hospice, has enlisted the support of local students at New City College, Epping Forest, to help put together the fruits of a four-month community art project…

Young performers developed their confidence putting on a musical show. Year 3 and 4 pupils at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, performed the musical Ye-ha. The story is set in the American Wild West and follows Wilbur Hubbard, a wimpy cook who suddenly finds himself…

A SCHOOL hall was turned into a concert hall when children got their first experience of a live gig. Pupils and teachers threw out the rule book and rocked out to an hour-long concert by tribute act Imagine…The Beatles. Year 2 pupils at Cooks Spinney…

Harlow College achieves London Brick Construction Hub status LEADING building products manufacturer Forterra has announced Harlow College as one of six further education colleges in the UK to become London Brick Construction Hubs. The six were chosen following a competitive application process last year in…

IN order to support autism awareness the young people of Passmores Academy enhanced provision have made this documentary. The 40 minute film is. series of interviews where students Principal of Passmores Academy, Vic Goddard said: “They have helped educate us and we hope that they…

Top universities are within reach of brilliant teenagers from Harlow. Year 9 and 10 students at Burnt Mill Academy were selected to take part in the Brilliant Club by Cambridge University. The university access charity’s mission is to increase the number of young people from…

Curious young minds are taking a trip around the world to indulge in culture. CULTURE Vultures is launching at Little Parndon Primary Academy, in Harlow, to raise awareness of the diversity of the families making up the community. The first “trip” will see pupils explore…

A new way of teaching children to read is exposing them to rich and varied knowledge. BY the time pupils leave Cooks Spinney Primary Academy, in Harlow, they will have read at least 36 full books, including the likes of Tom’s Midnight Garden, Iron Man,…

Stewards Academy reading week STEWARDS Academy celebrated their second ‘Reading Week’ of the academic year recently; this time with the theme of ‘Diaries’. The week’s activities ran alongside the other reading schemes at Stewards and were intended to highlight the benefits of reading to students…

CHILDREN’S author Michael Rosen inspired a school to develop tomorrow’s performance poets. The writer behind children’s favourite We’re Going on A Bear Hunt recently held a training session with teachers from the BMAT group of schools. Those from Little Parndon Primary Academy, in Harlow, were…

ON Friday, Mark Hall Academy students won best production and best actor at the Rudolph Walker Inter-School awards at Epping College. Rudolph Walker may not be well known in terms of his real name but everyone recognises the institution that he has become on Eastenders…

Tany’s Dell cheerleaders win double. TWO cheerleading teams from Tany’s Dell Primary school went to Chelmsford on Thursday 28th March to represent Harlow in the Essex County Cheerleading finals. The teams had qualified after previously competing against other Harlow Primary Schools in the town’s own…