HARLOW Tye Rotary Club handed over a cheque for £750.00 to the Passmores-based charity No Child Without. Rotary representative, Bernard Gardiner handed the cheque to Passmores Chief Executive, Vic Goddard. No Child Without is a fund-raising charity dedicated to making educationally enriching experiences available for…

‘Delivering through partnerships’ – work of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex highlighted at annual conference. ‘Delivering through partnerships’ is the theme of this year’s conference being held by Roger Hirst, the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex. The event is being…

FOLLOWING their sold out show last December, The Fraudway Singers return to the stage with their second cabaret show on 8th June at Passmores Academy. “At The Movies” brings together songs from some of the biggest shows of stage and screen, so there is something…

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…

OFSTED has praised Purford Green Primary School following a short inspection. They came to the school in February. The report states: This school continues to be good. The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the previous inspection. Purford…

PASSMORES Academy’s English department recently took on the monumental task of putting on the play of Jekyll and Hyde; not only is it a very difficult text to study, it is also originally a novel. Laura King (English Teacher) produced a script adapted from the…

LOCAL fine artist Jack Freeman, recently stopped by Passmores Academy to hold an interactive portraiture session for pupils and staff. Jack demonstrated the techniques and styles that he most often uses within his portraiture work as well as his use of charcoal as his material…

ON Friday 8th of February, Passmores Academy took forty keen scientists to the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London for the GCSE Science Live to see speeches by renowned Scientists and BBC presenters. The passion of the speakers was thoroughly inspiring and each of them spoke…

By Local Democracy Reporter Piers Meyler PASSMORES Academy in Harlow has been praised for its education policy in supporting disadvantaged children in Channel 4 Dispatches – given the number of children being home schooled across Essex has risen by more than 40 per cent in…

GOVERNMENT statistics published this week, mark Passmores Academy as an “underperforming school”. In response to this, Principal, Vic Goddard has written an open letter to our readers. “I am sure some of you will have seen the list of school performance figures released yesterday by…

ON Monday 14th January Passmores Academy took part in the County Secondary Boccia Competition at Basildon Sporting Village. Boccia is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name “boccia” is derived from the Latin word for “boss” –…

PASSMORES Academy students got the opportunity to visit the House of Parliament this week. The students received a tour of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and got to watch them debating Brexit. They saw the Chancellor Phillip Hammond be quizzed…

PASSMORES Academy hosted the first ever performance of the Fraudway Singers this week in aid of the charity “No Child Without”. No Child Without was established in 2013 and provides financial support for young people across Harlow in order to help them access educational and…

PASSMORES Academy’s Pop Choir started off the Christmas season last week by visiting Sumners Care Home to deliver some Christmas cheer to the local residents. Teachers, Mrs Schultschik and Mr Butler accompanied the keen-voiced cherubim as they entertained the assembled folk. A selection of traditional…