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Former pupil’s business gives BRIT School a £40,000 facelift
Pupils at the world-famous BRIT School in Selhurst returned for the start of their new academic year this week to find the place having undergone a bit of a facelift. A former pupil at the school, Lucian Ivan, had returned … Continue reading
Posted in BRIT School, Business, Education, Selhurst
Tagged Lucian Ivan, Selhurst, Spectrum Specialist Support, The BRIT School
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Schools hire public relations firms to play GCSE numbers game
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE gives a Grade 3 to the public relations firms working for some of the borough’s secondary schools, whose news releases failed to include the hard facts on GCSE results day GCSE results day this year came … Continue reading
Posted in Caireen Mitchell, Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Croydon College, Croydon High, Education, Meridian High, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged Annabel Davies, Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Croydon College, Croydon High School, Oasis Shirley Park, Toby Seth, Whitgift School
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Croydon High’s high achievers celebrate on A Level results day
Croydon’s schools, state and private sector, were claiming “best ever” outcomes on A Level results day. At Whitgift School, the £30,000 per year independent in South Croydon, 1-in-4 of their results were at the highest, A* grade, while close to … Continue reading
Posted in Caireen Mitchell, Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Croydon College, Croydon High, Education, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Schools, Toby Seth, Whitgift School
Tagged Annabel Davies, Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Croydon College, Croydon High School, Oasis Shirley Park, Toby Seth, Whitgift School
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Open House 2026: from Croydon Town Hall to Downing Street
There are almost 30 venues in Croydon next month, many offering tours of normally off-limit buildings, as part of the annual London Open House Festival. And it is all free! It is one of the better years for getting a … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydon Minster, Fairfield Halls, History, Museum of Croydon, Old Palace, Surrey Street, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Town Hall, Fairfield Halls, Greenwich, History, Leadenhall Market, Lloyd's Building, London, London Open House, London Open House Festival, Museum of Croydon, No10 Downing Street, Royal Naval College, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Whitgift Almshouses, Whitgift Foundation
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Teacher whose poetry saw ‘The Merry Gang’ visiting Croydon
CROYDON CHRONICLES: A Restoration period writer who taught at the Free School made friends with ‘literary lords’ and the Poet Laureate. DAVID MORGAN looks back nearly 400 years to the life and work of John Oldham Poetry performances – spoken … Continue reading
Posted in Art, David Morgan, Poetry, Schools, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Free School, David Morgan, Earl of Kingston, Jhn Oldham, John Dryden, King Charles II, Lord Rochester, Oliver Cromwell, Poetry, Samuel Pepys, The Civilised Savage, Whitgift School, Will's Coffee House
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Perry drives a black cab through council’s consultation rules
The Croydon Mayor’s latest Trumpian edict, to ingratiate himself with London taxi drivers, is not quite what it seems, as our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE, reports Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, is now pandering to black cab drivers, allowing … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Healthy School Streets, Highways Dept, Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, London, London Borough of Croydon, LTDA, LTNs, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, PCNs, Penalty Charge Notices, school streets, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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‘Superstar’ Head loses appeal over Woodcote High dismissal
Paul Mundy-Castle has lost his Employment Tribunal appeal over his 2021 dismissal from a secondary school in Coulsdon for ‘gross misconduct’. It is at least the third time that the former basketball player had made claims to the tribunal. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Charities team up with a festival of football for primary pupils
Palace for Life, Crystal Palace FC’s charity arm, is taking part in a community summer school being staged in South Croydon next week, with club coaches staging a football festival as the grand finale for more than 150 children from … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Crystal Palace FC, Education, Palace for Life Foundation, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Football, Haling Park, Japanese, Palace for Life Foundation, Science, South Croydon, Sport, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Archbishop Tenison’s still struggling to find replacement Head
EXCLUSIVE: Croydon’s last senior school to have survived academisation has spent the past six months recruiting for a new headteacher, without success. By our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE Pupils and parents of Archbishop Tenison’s CofE High School are setting off … Continue reading
End-of-year report: Whitgift Head finds room for improvement
Visiting our al fresco studio Under The Flyover is Toby Seth, the headmaster of Whitgift School. Seth has just completed his first year in charge at the large independent school in South Croydon, a year in which their under-15s won … Continue reading
The Great British Bake Off Musical, Mitre Theatre, July 21-25
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Mitre Players, Shirley North, Shirley South, Theatre, Trinity School
Tagged Croydon, Mitre Players, Shirley, Trinity School
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Primary schools are hit by strikes over ‘toxic bullying culture’
There were lively lines of GMB and NEU pickets outside both entrances to St Joseph’s Nursery, Infant and Junior schools off Crown Dale in Upper Norwood this morning. Teachers and school support staff had taken strike action over long-running and … Continue reading
The Great British Bake Off Musical, Mitre Theatre, July 21-25
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Mitre Players, Shirley North, Shirley South, Theatre, Trinity School
Tagged Croydon, Mitre Players, Shirley, Trinity School
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Croydon High takes a stand at the Royal Society exhibition
Pupils from Croydon High School who are trying to become the first in the world from an all-girls school to design, build and launch a satellite into space, have reached another stellar milestone after showcasing their research at the Royal … Continue reading
Bowie’s old school ties sees his old friend back in Bromley
David Bowie’s best friend told pupils at the Bromley school they had attended together about their youthful music obsessions and haircuts gone wrong. George Underwood visited Ravens Wood School this week for an event organised by the Heritage of London … Continue reading
Trauma at Lanfranc as boy waits 2 hours with knife in his head
Headteacher tells mother that the school’s failure to seek emergency treatment for her son was ‘a judgement call’ A mother was distraught and angry when she arrived at her son’s Croydon school one morning this week to discover the boy … Continue reading
Mayor Perry’s ‘Motorists’ Charter’ to deliver more accidents, higher car insurance and even put children’s safety at risk
Just what might be coming round the corner in council business now that Jason Perry is back in the Town Hall? Probably a BMW being driven at close to 40mph, reports PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Cycling, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Policing, Sadiq Khan, Schools, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged 20mph, 20mph zones, Castlemaine Avenue, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, LTN, LTN refunds, Mayor Jason Perry, Metropolitan Police, Motorists Charter, Nigel Farage, Reform Ltd, South Croydon, Speeding, Tory
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Meridian High scoops national award for ‘making a difference’
Meridian High School in New Addington has won a bronze award for “Making a Difference – Secondary School of the Year” in the Pearson National Teaching Awards. The Pearson National Teaching Awards recognise whole school communities that “radically transform the … Continue reading
Charity lost £2m last year over closure of Old Palace School
The Whitgift Foundation’s ‘Impact Report’ for last year shows its two boys’ fee-paying schools among the country’s top 10% of independents, as the costs of closing its girls’ school will continue until 2028. By STEVEN DOWNES The closure of Old … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Fiona Fletcher Smith, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Serenity special school, Trinity School, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Hammersfield, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Old Town, Roisha Hughes, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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In this heatwave, we need to turn up the heat on our politicians
CROYDON COMMENTARY: We know many of the measures we as a society, as a nation and as a borough, need to take to deal with the kind of heatwave that we have endured this week. PETER UNDERWOOD says it is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Crisis Commission, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Peter Underwood, Schools
Tagged Climate Crisis, Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon, Croydon Climate Crisis Commission, Heat wave, LAS, LFB, London, London Ambulance Service, London Fire Brigade, Mayor of London, Met Office, Peter Underwood, schools
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Emergency services issue warnings as heatwave continues
Transport for London asks the public to avoid travelling tomorrow, as the Red heat alert is extended by another 24 hours The Met Office has recorded a temperature of 36.4C at Yeovilton in Somerset, making today the hottest June day … Continue reading
Schools opt for part-day closures to cope with Red heatwave
‘Internal temperatures within the building are now exceeding external temperatures and we are unable to maintain a safe environment for pupils and staff’ is message sent to parents of one Croydon school Schools in Croydon and Sutton are among nearly … Continue reading
Social media ban is the chance to reclaim children’s childhoods
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The government wants stronger controls on how under-16s use their phones. KEN TOWL welcomes the move We are arming our kids with weapons we hardly understand and, up to now, the rules around these weapons have been principally … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ken Towl, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Elon Musk, Facebook, Ken Towl, Molly Rose Foundation, Online Safety Act, Sir Keir Starmer, SnapChat, Social media ban, TikTok, Twitter, X
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