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Category Archives: Education
Learning Disability Carnival, Croydon North End, July 6
Posted in Activities, Dance, Education, Music, Poetry
Tagged Croydon North End, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disability Carnival, North End
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Guitar, Singing and Maths tuition, Tollers Community Centre
Posted in Activities, Coulsdon, Education, Music
Tagged Coulsdon, Guitar lessons, Maths lessons, Singing lessons, Tollers Community Centre, Tuition
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Trinity sixth former Karpal is more than pulling her own weight
Hannah Karpal, a Trinity School sixth former, broke a national record as she finished second in the British junior powerlifting championships staged at Solihull last month. The performance has seen her called up to the Great Britain squad, with the … Continue reading
Posted in Schools, Sport, Trinity School
Tagged British Powerlifting Championships, Hannah Karpal, Trinity School
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BRIT in deal to secure free schooling for talented arts pupils
PRS for Music, a world-leading music collective management organisation, is partnering with The BRIT School’s renowned music department to inspire – and fund – the next generation of artists. The partnership will enable The BRIT School to remain free to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Schools, Stanley Halls
Tagged Music, PRS for Music, Selhurst, Stanley Halls, The BRIT School
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Stormzy’s changing the game by opening his #MerkyFC HQ
Stormzy’s fusion of music and football made another massive stride today with the announcement that, backed by global sports brand Adidas, he has taken over the sports pitches at what was Selhurst Sports Arena to launch #Merky FC HQ, a … Continue reading
Posted in #MerkyFC HQ, Activities, AFC Croydon Athletic, Art, Charity, Education, Football, Music, Selhurst, Sport
Tagged #MerkyFC, Adidas, Communities First Foundation, Croydon, EA Sports, Football, Selhurst, Selhurst Sports Arena, Stormzy
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London Zoo wants your help to mark 200 years of history
London Zoo wants your help to mark its 200th birthday, coming up in 2026. Perhaps you have some old photographs of a childhood visit to the zoo, or to its country outpost, Whipsnade? Maybe you had a grandparent, or great … Continue reading
At 91 years old, there’s no stopping marathon man Picksley
David Picksley was probably already a bit of a London Marathon hero, but after his unstoppable performance in this year’s race on Sunday, he’s probably worthy of inclusion in the annals of the event’s all-time greats. At 91, Picksley was … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Trinity School
Tagged Bowel Cancer UK, Croydon, David Picksley, London Marathon, Trinity School
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Marathon star helps Wallington school go the extra mile
His legs still aching from the ordeal of racing more than 26 miles through the streets of London the day before, Marc Scott turned out at a Wallington primary school yesterday morning, possibly to inspire the next generation of champion … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Health, Schools, Sport, Sutton Council
Tagged Foresters School, London Marathon, Marc Scott, Paris Olympics, Paris Olympics 2024, Wallington
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Raman Subba Row: OW who saved Surrey and changed cricket
There will be a strange, sad, empty space on a bench near the boundary of the Old Whitgiftians’ Croham Road cricket ground in South Croydon this summer. It is a spot where Raman Subba Row used to sit in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged cricket, Croham Road, ECB, Jim Laker, Lord's, MCC, Old Whitgiftians, OWs, Peter May, Raman Subba Row, South Croydon, Streatham, Surrey, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, TCCB, Test and County Cricket Board, The Oval, Whitgift School
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Physics award-winner to give Astronomical Society talk
Arabi Karteepan, recently named as the winner of the Royal Astronomical Society’s prestigious education award, is to give a talk tomorrow night in Croydon: “A journey to reach the Stratosphere”. Croydon High School’s head of physics will explain how the … Continue reading
Seth to start as Whitgift School’s new headmaster from 2025
Toby Seth is to take over as headmaster of Whitgift School, it has been announced. The financially challenged Whitgift Foundation, Croydon’s biggest landowners, made the announcement at lunchtime today, with Seth to take charge from September 2025. The Foundation and … Continue reading
School unions in urgent talks over academy’s millionaire chair
By our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE Staff at Ark Academy schools are to hold a crisis meeting with management at the chain to demand the removal as chair of Sir Paul Marshall, the multi-millionaire Tory donor who has “liked” extremist … Continue reading
Posted in Ark Blake Academy, Charity, Education, Oval Primary, Schools
Tagged Addiscombe, Ark Blake Academy, Ark Oval Primary, Conservative, GB News, Hope Not Hate, Nigel Farage, Sir Paul Marshall, Tory, Twitter
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Kinetic Foundation free football camp, Crystal Palace, Apr 9-12
Posted in Activities, Education, Football, Sport
Tagged Crystal Palace, Easter, Easter holidays, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Kinetic Foundation
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‘Tough on causes of crime’ needs more than a glib throwaway
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Retired barrister and former councillor, JERRY FITZPATRICK, pictured right, offers his insights into an important piece of work conducted on youth crime and safeguarding Speaking as Shadow Home Secretary in 1993, Tony Blair famously promised to be tough … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Education, Health, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Safeguarding Children Partnership, Elianne Andam, Jerry Fitzpatrick, knife crime, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, NHS, Serious Youth Violence, youth knife crime
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£51,000pa saved on library won’t touch council’s £1.6bn debt
Three years ago, RICHARD PACITTI, pictured left, explained how to save the borough’s libraries. With half of Croydon’s public libraries once again under threat of closure or being down-graded, he’s back to make the case for a properly funded, essential … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Broad Green Residents' Association, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Education, Libraries, New Addington, Old Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Sanderstead, Shirley North, Shirley South, South Norwood
Tagged Bradmore Green, Bradmore Green Library, Broad Green, Broad Green Library, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Friend of Sandersted Library, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, New Addington Library, Old Coulsdon, Richard Pacitti, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Library, Sanderstead Residents' Association, Shirley, Shirley Library, South Norwood, South Norwood Library, Tory
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No hiding place for Jason Perry, Croydon’s impotent Mayor
CROYDON IN CRISIS: From a couple of hundred attendees soon after he was first elected, Croydon’s part-time Mayor is now drawing crowds of only a couple of dozen for his council-funded promotional tour. KEN TOWL went along to South Norwood … Continue reading
Croydon High to go even higher with space satellite project
Croydon High is about to go even higher! The girls’ independent school in Selsdon who last year ran a special astronomy club project that sent a pair of weather balloons into space has confirmed that it is now working to … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Croydon High, Education, Schools
Tagged Arabi Karteepan, AstroGazers Club, Croydon High, Croydon High School, Science, Selsdon, STEAM, University of Bath
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Authors talk about pirates, pigeons and patchwork unicorns
Our latest Under The Flyover podcast is a World Book Day Special, where we meet three local authors who have helped to inspire thousands of local schoolchildren from Croydon primary schools through their books and their readings at Waterstones bookstore … Continue reading
16-year-old Whitgift pupil’s death is linked to text blackmail
‘The world is so cruel’: boy’s father tells Coroner’s Court of family’s pain after latest tragic case The John Whitgift Foundation, a registered charity which has been providing alms and education in Croydon since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Ramsey, Crime, Schools, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Catfishing, Child sexual abuse, Christopher Ramsey, Croydon, Dinal De Alwis, Dr Kevin Ralley, Metropolitan Police, Paul Dodd, Sexual abuse, South Croydon, South London Coroner's Court, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Claim FREE birdspotting guide from the London Wildlife Trust
If you’re getting out and about in Croydon’s open spaces and woodlands in the coming weeks, the London Wildlife Trust is offering free birdwatching guides to help you identify those feathered friends that you might see – or hear. Birdwatching … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Birdwatching, London Wildlife Trust
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2,000 primary pupils inspired by star authors at Waterstones
Almost 2,000 pupils from Croydon primary schools have this week come with their classes to Waterstones in the Whitgift Centre to celebrate World Book Day in an impressive and inspiring series of talks and events featuring locally-based authors. The youngsters … Continue reading
Raye’s Coulsdon primary school pleads: ‘Save Our Library!’
There was a huge turn out on World Book Day at Bradmore Green Library in Old Coulsdon this morning to protest against the Tory Mayor’s proposals to close the library. Residents and children are really upset at the threat to … Continue reading
Younger Generation trial session, St Mark’s Purley, Mar 10
Posted in Activities, Art, Dance, Education, Music, Purley, Theatre
Tagged Purley, Younger Generation, Younger Generation Theatre Group
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‘The council is dismantling our borough, service by service’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The latest sham consultation over the closure of some of the borough’s libraries – with half under threat of being downgraded or shut forever – looks like the end-game to ALISON HUNT So there’s yet another consultation over … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Education, Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon, Sanderstead, Schools, Shirley North, Shirley South, South Norwood
Tagged Alison Hunt, Bradmore Green, Bradmore Green Library, Broad Green, Broad Green Library, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Libraries, Libraries consultation, New Addington, Old Coulsdon, Public libraries, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Library, Shirley, Shirley Library, South Norwood, Tory
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‘Miracles happen’ says Raye as she wins a record 6 Brits
On the night of her greatest acclaim, Raye – Rachel Keen when she was when a child at Coulsdon Primary and pupil at Woodcote High – gave a shout out to Croydon. “Miracles happen,” said the country’s latest, biggest music … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Woodcote High
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Raye, Rob Beckett, The BRITS
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