Potter Street Academy pupils inspired by former international basketball player POTTER Street Academy was delighted to welcome former Team GB international basketball player, Pierre Henry-Fontaine, when he led a sponsored fitness challenge at the school. As part of an initiative run by Sports for Champions…

Cultural Appreciation Day: A Celebration of Religious Diversity PASSMORES Academy has held the second of its Cultural Appreciation Days, this time focussing on religion. Throughout the day the religious theme was woven into a variety of lessons. In Technology, students explored how the architecture of…

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…

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…

Join us at Passmores Christmas Fair! Passmores Academy is looking forward to an evening of sparkling festive fun and good cheer, as it prepares to host its annual Christmas Fair this December. There will be plenty going on to entertain and amuse, with stalls selling…

Students find their future at Careers Fair AS part of Passmores’ commitment to ensure students are set on the right path to achieve their future endeavours, the school recently co-hosted a careers fair with Stewards Academy. Students and their families flocked to Harlow Hotel to…

Pupils gather to remember the fallen PUPILS from Potter Street Academy, Purford Green Primary and Passmores joined together at the Potter Street Memorial to celebrate Armistice Day on Monday. The pupils and members of the local community gathered to listen to the service led by…

A PACKED audience at the Harlow Playhouse was treated to four wonderful adaptations of the work of William Shakespeare on Thursday night. Roydon Primary Academy Romeo and Juliet IT takes a lot of courage for Year 4 pupils to get up on the big stage…

Paralympian Visits Purford Green School FUN, fitness and fundraising was the order of the day when British Paralympic wheelchair racer, Anne Wafula-Strike visited Purford Green Primary recently. As an advocate of equal opportunities, Anne gave a talk which inspired the children to be the best…

AN astonishing 800 Passmores students have taken part in an initiative which one day, could result in them saving a life. Restart-a-Heart Week is based on the British Heart Foundation’s campaign to teach people essential skills which would enable them to perform CPR on an…

Potter Street and Purford Green pupils immerse themselves in culture on World Geography Day PUPILS at Potter Street Academy and Purford Green Primary embarked on a virtual world tour, when they took part in a whole-school Geography Day recently. Each class went on a fact-finding…

SECONDARY and Primary schools across Harlow are being urged to sign up to the Risk-Avert programme, which helps children and young people understand and manage risk, improve decision-making and leads to improvements in emotional health and resilience. Risk-Avert, which has been developed jointly by Essex…

New year, new families, new curriculum ideas FRESH from the summer break after Potter Street Academy’s most successful year in its history so far, the Autumn term has got off to a positive start. July concluded with the news that children’s test results at the…

Passmores Cultural Diversity Day Celebrates Immigration PASSMORES will be running a series of Cultural Appreciation days in the coming year to celebrate diversity within the school, our town and across the country. The theme of the first event was immigration. The day began with a…