IN response to the Government’s announcement of further investment into Harlow, Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow, said: “I work hard to get Government investment into education and skills in Harlow and I am delighted that Harlow College has just been named as 1 of the…

THE learning opportunities Harlow’s newest secondary school is offering is enticing parents to sign-up a year before doors open. Sir Frederick Gibberd College opens in the town in September 2019, starting with Year 7, with a mission to provide a centre of excellence for post-16…

THE government has named the 21 colleges that will be the first to establish maths centres for excellence. The new centres were first announced in the 2017 industrial strategy and in response to Sir Adrian Smith’s review of post-16 maths education, which recommended improving basic…

Stewards Academy meets Bake Off! STEWARDS Academy celebrated the European Day of Languages with a variety of activities including a ‘Language Detective Trail’ and a ‘Same Word, Different Meaning’ competition, with teachers greeting students in a variety of different languages throughout the day. The week…

Harlow Royal British Legion: Festival of Remembrance 11 Nov Theatre 1 JOIN Harlow’s Royal British Legion for a Remembrance Day concert and service commemorating all those who have given their lives since WW1 and the many conflicts since. Featuring music and readings, the concert will…

PARENTS and children are getting another opportunity to find out about Harlow’s newest secondary school this weekend. Sir Frederick Gibberd College is being opened by BMAT to provide a solution to the critical shortage of school places in the town by 2019. All students who…

Teaching schools in Harlow and Epping are teaming up to encourage new teachers into the area. BURNT Mill Academy Teaching School, West Essex SCITT, NET Academies Trust, Harlow Teacher Training Partnerships, Essex Teacher Training, West Essex School Direct Partnership, Teach Harlow and Forest Independent Primary…

PASSMORES headteacher Vic Goddard is set to join hundreds of headteachers at a march on Downing Street over continuing cuts to school budgets. YH went down to the school on Tracyes Road to find out more about the day of action, whether he will be…

Harlow students experience work as a Public Health England scientist. 
 PUBLIC Health England hosted what it hopes will be the first of several work experience visits for students from Harlow where it is creating a world-leading public health science campus. Six students from Harlow…

SPORT England is launching a £13.5m scheme to train 17,000 teachers in delivering PE and sport in school, after research found that almost 20% of secondary students hated PE lessons reports The Guardian. With more than a quarter of the nation’s adults “inactive”, according to…

Primary pupils are being given ICT lessons in a specialist technology school. IN an effort to improve lessons in computer skills, Roydon Primary Academy, has teamed up with fellow BMAT school BMAT STEM Academy, in Harlow. Now, the whole ICT curriculum will be taught to…

EXCITED pupils were eager to return to school to move into their brand-new classrooms. Over the summer break, a team of builders set to work at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, to extend the school building to add two extra classrooms. Pupils in Year 2…

A HARLOW nursery has been highly praised by Ofsted. The Nursery based at Perry Road in Harlow was inspected by the government watchdog in August, 2018. Summary of key findings for parents The provision is good “Children thoroughly enjoy their time at the nursery. They…