Education: Secondary
Passmores Academy recently hosted its annual Summer School for the new Year 7 intake starting this September. THE action-packed week of activities provided students with a taste of what their future lives at Passmores will be like. Importantly, it was a chance to get to…
THE SIR FREDERICK Gibberd College (SFG) is set to open in September 2019. This will be the first new senior school to open in Harlow since the sixties. We sat down with the headteacher, Dee Conlon, to ask a number of key questions about the…
One to one support has helped students with special educational needs to succeed. BURNT Mill Academy, in Harlow, prides itself on the lengths it goes to to support all students to achieve their very best. This year, students were thrilled to secure grades which enable…
Thousands of pupils in Essex are celebrating after collecting their GCSE results today. THE 2018 results are the second year when subjects are graded under the new 9 to 1 scale – with English literature, English language and Mathematics having changed in 2017. Twenty more…
Kiddi Caru Harlow Applauds Star Sunflower Grower GREEN-fingered little ones at Kiddi Caru’s Harlow day nursery took part in the company’s annual sunflower growing competition, with one of them scooping second prize with a sunflower measuring a whopping 295cm. Rhys received one of 300 sunflower…
Mark Hall Academy celebrate GCSE success A busy and vibrant morning at Mark Hall Academy with students and staff celebrating the outcomes of their hard work and commitment. 2018 has seen Mark Hall Academy results improve for another year. English and Maths are key strengths…
THE last cohort of students studying at a former Harlow school have collected their GCSE results. Year 11 students at Sir Charles Kao UTC are the last to pass through the facility, before it is closed and reopened in September as BMAT STEM Academy. The…
STUDENTS, staff and families flocked to Passmores Academy on Thursday morning to receive their exam results. There was a great hub-bub in the gym as they reviewed their results, the fruit of a lot of hard work. Principal Vic Goddard said: “The Passmores community is…
ST Mark’s West Essex Catholic School were celebrating another excellent set of results that yet again demonstrate exceptionally good performances against all of the key achievement measures. Headteacher, Elaine Heaphy, commenting on the results, stated, “Following on from our great ‘A’ level results last week,…
STUDENTS at St Nicholas school in Old Harlow were jumping for joy after obtaining a great set of GCSE results today (Thursday). – 96% of all pupils achieved at least 5 GCSEs with 9 to 4 grades – 89% of all pupils achieved at least…
Burnt Mill Academy is once again celebrating “outstanding” GCSE results. AS one of the top achieving schools in the country, more than half of Year 11 students at the school, in Harlow, achieved the new grade 5 – considered a strong pass nationally – in…
AT Stewards Academy the commitment and hard work of both the pupils and staff has yet again paid off with a very pleasing set of GCSE Exam results. The core subjects continue to go from strength to strength and see further improvements this year, with…
A PRE-SCHOOL on the border with Harlow has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted. Bluebell Forest School is located at Matching Village Hall, The Green, Matching Tye, Harlow. They were inspected on June 28th, 2018. The report states. Staff have an excellent understanding of how to…
Young Debaters Speak at Westminster FOUR Year 10 students from Passmores Academy were lucky enough to be selected to take part in a prestigious Youth Debate at Westminster, organised by the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE) and the Religious Education Council (REC). The…
ON Friday (17th August) Cllr’s Chris Vince and Waida Forman as well as secretary of Harlow TUC David Forman, who provided all the gardening equipment, took part in a clean up of the Leah Manning Centre in the town park. The Leah Manning centre provides…
