ALMOST 16,000 parents and carers across the county will find out the outcome of their primary school applications today (Wednesday 16 April). This year, Essex County Council received a total of 15,618 primary school applications. Of these, 14,107 pupils who are due to start in…

TWO members of Hare Street School attended the East England Regional Trampolining finals on Sunday. Entry was open to those who achieved qualifying scores in one of the two previous competitions.  Kailani [pictured]  won her Women’s 7-8 category and Olivia Osei came 7th in her Women’s…

BLAKE class did their sponsored walk today to raise money for Harlow Fields School and College PTA They visited all seven gardens in the Town Park. It was freezing cold this morning so they all did amazingly well and were very good sports! They have…

YOU may be wondering why the chief executive of the Passmores Co-Operative Learning Community (PCLC) Vic Goddard is interviewing teenager Darts sensation Luke Littler It is all about numbers. Target Darts have a base in Harlow. They also sponsor a Darts Academy at Passmores. Finally,…

CAMPAIGN group Save Our Libraries Essex (SOLE), which fought successfully to stop proposed closures of to branch libraries across Essex five years ago, warns that libraries could be seen as an easy target as Essex County Council faces break up. The county council will disappear…

A WEEK is a long time in Netball. A week ago, St Mark’s Under-19 side lost in the final of the Essex Plate by just a single point to Sweyne High. There was no hiding the girl’s disappointment. However, many of the players are just…

THERE have been almost 20,000 reports of serious childcare incidents in nurseries in England in the past five years, the BBC has found. That is an average of about 75 “significant events” reported to Ofsted each week – including incidents of serious injury or significant…

PEARTREE Mead Academy, Potter Street Academy, Purford Green Primary and The Downs Primary, have worked together to hold its first MATSpelling Bee competition.  Earlier in the spring term, children in every year group across PCLC were provided a set list of spellings to learn at…

A PRISON leader wants to inspire others from Essex to apply for an exclusive new programme to find and recruit the next generation of talented prison leaders. His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has today launched the Future Prison Leaders Programme. The three-year programme…

PEAR Tree Mead Academy are pleased to welcome their new school puppy to the school. The children voted and named him ‘Numbers’. Over the next few months he will trained as a school therapy dog and will begin working with the children. The children are…

DISCO Inferno at Stewards Academy was a joyous celebration of seventies music that sounded as fresh today as it did all those years ago. The plot is centred on Jack (Hayden Lawless) selling this soul to the devil via Lady Marmalade (Ivana Miksovic) for success.…

WELL done to the 20 teams who ventured across to Passmores Academy to take part in the annual Tchoukball Festival! Despite being a relatively new game to Harlow, the children made huge progress in terms of match-play and tactical understanding, simply by playing the game.…

FAMILIES across Harlow will soon benefit from new nursery places. Jerounds school is part of the Labour government’s new scheme to roll out 300 new or expanded schoolbased nurseries by converting classrooms into top quality early years spaces. From September, working parents will get 30…

FAMILIES across the country are set to benefit from thousands of new nursery places from September, as the government delivers the change that people voted for by confirming the first wave of 300 school-based nurseries. The measures will help parents get to work, increasing access…