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Category Archives: Schools
Trinity music teacher ready to lead a big band at Abbey Road
For more than 30 years, the Len Phillips Big Band have been entertaining lovers of swing music across the country and around the world. Later this month, they are to perform the first big band live stream direct from Abbey … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Trinity School
Tagged Abbey Road Studios, Joe Pettitt, Len Phillips Big Band
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40% of Croydon pupils miss out on first-choice school places
Official figures show that 4 in 10 Croydon children have been denied their first-choice secondary school place next September, one of the poorest allocations in the whole of London. Across the capital’s 32 boroughs and the City of London, an … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Schools
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Croydon Council, London Councils, schools
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Mayor Khan asks ‘heroic’ Londoners to stick to the covid rules
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, today urged all Londoners to continue to follow the lockdown rules in order to ensure that all restrictions in the capital can be lifted by June 21, as outlined last night by the Prime … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Business, Fieldway, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, New Addington, Sadiq Khan, Schools
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, London, Mayor, New Addington, Sadiq Khan
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Half-term report: Is 49% really a pass mark for this test?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After the respite of a week away from the virtual chalkface, the borough’s teachers are warily preparing themselves to be subject of the latest ‘Boris Big Bang’ As the UK slips down the rankings for the highest per … Continue reading
Council faces tricky task to find 37 new polling stations by May
Orders from the government to not use schools on election day could cause serious problems in Croydon If you have a garden shed that is not being used on Thursday May 6, or an empty garage perhaps, you might want … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, Croydon Council, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor
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Whitgift School offers tributes to former head David Raeburn
A private family funeral service is to be held at 3pm this afternoon for David Raeburn, a former headmaster at Whitgift School and Oxford University academic. Raeburn died at Abingdon Hospital on February 1. He was 93 years old. He … Continue reading
Posted in Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged David Raeburn, Whitgift School
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Teachers offer guidance for Children’s Mental Health Week
Today marks the start of Children’s Mental Health Week. With so many children’s mental health badly effected by lockdown and absence from school, former teacher LAURA STEELE of education experts PlanBee has gathered a week’s worth of fantastic free resources … Continue reading
Whitehall picks McArdle to sort out council’s financial mess
CROYDON IN CRISIS: At Monday’s cabinet meeting, the council leadership repeatedly denied that the appointment of an Improvement Board from Whitehall will amount to a takeover. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… Tony McArdle, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Lisa Taylor, Schools, Section 114 notice, Tony McArdle, Tony Newman, Virgo Fidelis
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, S114, Section 114, Simon Hall, Tony McArdle, Tony Newman, Virgo Fidelis, Virgo Fidelis Convent School
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Croydon children given out of date bread in their food parcels
Bungling Boris Johnson was forced yesterday to admit that his government food parcels for hungry children are a “disgrace”. But Inside Croydon has discovered that state-funded packages distributed to some children in this borough have distributed with even less in … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Schools
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, New Addington, Tory
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Schools and businesses deal with Croydon’s ‘digital divide’
As hundreds of families in the borough struggle with expensive broadband connections or are having to use shared laptops for homeschooling, community groups have rallied round to help. ELLA HOPKINS reports It was little more than a year ago that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Education, Oasis Academy, Schools
Tagged #KeepCroydonConnected, coronavirus, Covid-19, Go2Games, Oasis Academy Arena
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#MakeSchoolsSafe: The NEU advert the Mail banned
Posted in Education, Schools
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, National Education Union, NEU
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Trinity’s Christmas song raises thousands for the homeless
Richard Holdsworth, the music master at Trinity School, has written and performed, together with pupils, a special Christmas charity record which has raised thousands of pounds for the homeless. Almost Christmas, was released via crowdfunding sites and YouTube over the … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Music, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged Crisis, Richard Holdsworth, Trinity School
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10-year-old Nathan is named as Rotary’s first Stars winner
The Rotary Club of Croydon has named the first winner of its Rotary Stars Award as Nathan Findlator, from Broadmead Primary in Selhurst. The Rotary Stars is an annual scheme to recognise and reward primary school-aged children for acts of … Continue reading
In the classroom during covid: Schools morale is sinking fast
CROYDON COMMENTARY: In September, a locally based teacher* gave us an insight into what life was like in the classroom as the schools returned following the first coronavirus lockdown. Here, they update us after the strangest of terms It has … Continue reading
Mayor warns on coronavirus: ‘We still have a long winter ahead’
As Britain hurtles headlong towards a no-deal Brexit, so London appears to be heading for Tier 3, the tightest covid restrictions perhaps as soon as next week – all just in time for Christmas. Government scientific advisers and the London … Continue reading
Posted in Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Schools
Tagged Boris Johnson, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, London, Mayor, Sadiq Khan
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‘Startling’ findings in Ombudsman report on children in care
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council’s dilemma over cutting funding to the children’s services department has been highlighted by a report which says that youngsters in care are being let down by local authorities A report published by the Local Government … Continue reading
Elmhurst footballers picked to play in schools’ World Cup
Two boys from a prep school in South Croydon have been picked to play for England in one of the world’s largest football tournaments. Elmhurst School’s Javahn Woode (Year 6) and Daniel Kaminski (Year 5) were selected from 250 triallists … Continue reading
Posted in Elmhurst School for Boys, Football, Schools, South Croydon, Sport
Tagged Elmhurst School for Boys, South Croydon
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Croydon primary schools offer pioneering food bank service
Four Croydon primary schools have started their own food banks to help support their communities during the second covid-19 lockdown. South Norwood Primary, Woodcote Primary, Broadmead and The Crescent, all Pioneer Academy schools, took the initiative in the knowledge that … Continue reading
Childline counsellors ready to help deal with cyberbullying
To mark the start of Anti-Bullying Week, charity volunteer counsellor RACHEL McCOURTY explains how the NSPCC’s Childline can help Every year thousands of children contact Childline about their experiences of cyberbullying and tell us it can feel impossible to escape. … Continue reading
The cuts: Fisher’s Folly to be sold and 3-weekly bin collections
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The problem facing Croydon Council as it seeks to balance its books is that, after a decade of Tory austerity, there’s precious little left to cut. STEVEN DOWNES reports The frustration with the slow pace of progress … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Alisa Flemming, Andrew Fisher, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Libraries, Lisa Taylor, Refuse collection, Report in the Public Interest, Schools, Section 114 notice, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Andrew Fisher, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Lisa Taylor, London Borough of Croydon, S114, Section 114, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Sit-down protest fails to halt destruction of 100-year-old oaks
Croydon Council’s ambivalent approach to environmental protection has been called into question once again after the destruction of trees in Waddon. Photos: PETER BALL What began as a spontaneous, one-woman sit-down protest yesterday ultimately failed to save a set of … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Friends of the Earth, Environment, Schools, Waddon, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Grace Onions, London Borough of Croydon, Waddon
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Community dishes up plates-full of embarassment for Tory MPs
A social media flashmob protest took place yesterday outside the offices of Sutton’s Conservative MPs to express public disgust at Paul Scully voting in the Commons against providing free meals for vulnerable children during the half-term break. Protesters described Scully’s … Continue reading
Croydon joins 27 London boroughs offering half-term meals
Croydon yesterday became one of 28 London boroughs to defy the Tory government and arrange for those children who normally receive free school meals to continue to be fed over the half-term holiday. No formal announcement has been made on … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Schools
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Marcus Rashford, Paul Scully MP, Tory
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Appeals to Sutton and Croydon to join Rashford campaign
The leaders of LibDem-run Sutton and Labour-controlled Croydon have been urged to join a growing number of councils in issuing food vouchers over half term as the row over free school meals provision during holidays continues. London boroughs Southwark, Lambeth, … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Elliot Colburn, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Paul Scully MP, Ruth Dombey, Schools, Southwark Council, Sutton Council
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Marcus Rashford, Paul Scully MP, Sutton Council, Tory
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Teachers ‘at breaking point’ over covid-19 class conditions
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on the growing disquiet among teachers in Croydon and across the country over the risks that they face from coronavirus The leader of a teachers’ union has written to government to warn that “secondary schools … Continue reading
