PEOPLE across the country are set to benefit from a complete overhaul of student finance, helping them get flexible loan funding to train, retrain and upskill throughout their working lives.  The Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE) will empower more people to study in a way that…

THANKS to school staff and pupils of the 33 teams who attended Harlow Rugby Club throughout Friday to take part in the Years 5 and 6 Tag-Rugby Qualifiers. The standard of rugby improved throughout both the morning and afternoon sessions as children with limited experience…

MASSIVE plans to demolish and re-develop Burnt Mill Academy school have been submitted to Harlow Council. The reports proposes: Demolition of the existing school buildings and sports facilities and erection of a replacement school and sports facilities with associated access, parking and landscaping. The proposed…

AS part of World Book Day celebrations, London Stansted Airport has released an activity travel book with illustrations, poems, and short stories by children from Chelmsford, North Weald, Hoddesdon, and Bishop’s Stortford schools. The second edition of the London Stansted Little Book of Travel Tales…

FIGURES released to YH reveal the breakdown for school places in Harlow. Passmores Academy had the most first preferences (234) followed by the increasingly popular Sir Frederick Gibberd College (208). The breakdown is as follows Burnt Mill Academy 531 put the school down as a…

ON Monday February 20th, Harlow Youth Councillors invited all Harlow adult councillors to take part in an Apprentice TV show style activity at the Latton Bush Centre. The activity evening was delivered in the format of the BBC reality game show ‘The Apprentice’, and consisted…

FAMILIES of children at William Martin Church of England Junior School are benefitting from a six-week cookery programme, where parents and carers are taught how to prepare and cook nutritious meals in a slow cooker.  The six-week course, which is funded by Essex County Council,…

BANANA Moon Day Nursery in Harlow has been highly praised by Ofsted. The government inspectors visited the Park Lane school on January 17th, 2023. The report stated: Children enjoy their time in this welcoming nursery. They form secure attachments with staff and seek them out…

ADOPTION UK welcomes many of the government proposals, which were announced yesterday, to improve the way children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) are supported in schools in England. However the organisation warns that the plan lacks urgency and misses opportunities to improve support…

YOU may have seen BAFTA-nominated Harlow actress Charlotte Spencer star as DC Nicki Jennings in BBC1’s superb The Gold. But whenever she can, Charlotte takes time out to go to Milwards Primary and their partner school, Henry Moore in order to help the children with…

RESIDENTS aged 19 and over can find out more about the free maths courses on offer across the county during a special Multiply in Essex event at Harlow’s Water Gardens Shopping Centre, on Friday 3 March between 10am and 4pm. Multiply in Essex is a…

PARENTS are helping a family of schools to shape the education children with special educational needs and disabilities receive. A forum has been set up for parents in Harlow, Epping and Stansted in Essex and Newham in London who are keen to have an input…

TODAY, Wednesday 1 March, parents of nearly 17,000 pupils will discover the outcome of their secondary school applications. The total number of applications for September 2023 admissions, 16,945, is the highest number Essex County Council (ECC) has ever received.  Just under 97% (more than 19…

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