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Category Archives: Harris Academy Crystal Palace
Two Harris academies in Croydon get plugged in to solar power
Two Croydon schools have been announced among 250 that are to benefit from having solar panels fitted to their roofs under a scheme run by Great British Energy. The funding from Great British Energy and the government should enable millions … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon East, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Natasha Irons, Schools, Shirley North, Shirley South
Tagged Croydon, Croydon East, Crystal Palace, Great British Energy, Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Primary Academy Benson, Labour, Natasha Irons MP, Shirley, solar panels
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Secondaries celebrate as ‘covid bubble’ pupils pass GCSEs
For the 15- and 16-year-olds who began their secondary school careers with a year or more spent in a covid “bubble”, yesterday’s GCSE results will have come as a form of vindication, and relief. Covid and its aftermath had sent … Continue reading
Union pledges to ‘organise’ against Harris academies’ job cuts
EXCLUSIVE: Eight teachers are to be made redundant from schools in Croydon run by the Harris Federation, according to an internal document obtained by this website. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent The multi-academy trust with a half-million-a-year chief executive based … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Primary Purley Way, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Harris Aspire Academy Croydon, Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Federation, Harris Invictus Academy Croydon, Harris Primary Academy Croydon, Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Primary Academy Haling Park, Lord Harris of Peckham, National Education Union, Sir Daniel Moynihan, Tory
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Union slams Harris Foundation for threat to 45 teachers’ jobs
According to an insider at a Harris academy in south London, ‘a significant number of mainstream teachers’ have already received letters of potential redundancy, as NASUWT accuses Foundation’s £520,000 pa CEO of ‘underhand tactics’. By our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Primary Purley Way, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Harris Aspire Academy Croydon, Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Federation, Harris Invictus Academy Croydon, Harris Primary Academy Croydon, Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Primary Academy Haling Park, Lord Harris of Peckham, Matt Wrack, NASUWT, Sir Daniel Moynihan, Tory
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1,000 Harris academy staff in call for improved conditions
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on how a publicly-funded academy chain is failing to pay support staff inner London Living Wage while expecting teachers to work an extra 16 hours per week unpaid – yet its Croydon-based CEO is on … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, Harris Primary Purley Way, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, Eudcation Uncovered, Harris Federation, schools, Sir Daniel Moynihan, Warwick Mansell, Wellesley Road
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Whitehall ‘budgeting error’ costing Croydon schools millions
Croydon’s Liberal Democrat councillor has accused the Department for Education of depriving schools in her ward of more than £500,000 from their budgets this year – all because of an “error” by Whitehall civil servants. Claire Bonham, the Crystal Palace … Continue reading
Posted in Claire Bonham, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Schools
Tagged Claire Bonham, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Department for Education, DfE, Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, Liberal Democrats, Mayor Jason Perry, Susan Acland-Hood, Whitehall
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Permit problems see Crystal Palace school street dropped
The council has been forced to abandon one of the school street traffic restrictions which were due to come into force yesterday, following complaints from residents in Crystal Palace that Croydon’s online permit applications system contains significant flaws. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Claire Bonham, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Schools, Steve Iles
Tagged Claire Bonham, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, Healthy School Streets, school streets, Steve Iles
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Reach for the stars with Cancer Research’s children’s awards
As a toddler, Nengi Akins went “to hell and back” during her treatment for cancer. Now, as a healthy, happy teenager, she has put that experience behind her and has her sights set on a future in music. Nengi, 15, … Continue reading
Schools start summer term still struggling after cyber attack
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on the lingering difficulties facing teachers and parents Some pupils returned to their schools this week after the Easter holidays with their teachers still unable to access IT systems or use their usual telephone networks. … Continue reading
Harris Federation schools come under ‘vicious’ cyber attack
At least nine Croydon schools, including four large secondaries, have been affected by a malicious ransomware cyberattack this week, forcing them to shut down IT systems, email servers and even switch off their landline phone networks. The Harris Federation, which … Continue reading
Government reluctant to act over ‘disappearing’ Harris pupils
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports on how a government agency fobbed off Croydon Council’s legitimate concerns over dozens of academy pupils who “vanished” just before they were due to sit their GCSEs Well done Sylvia McNamara, Croydon Council’s erstwhile director … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Harris Federation, Sir Daniel Moynihan, South Norwood, Sylvia McNamara, Tory
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Hundreds of teachers leaving Harris academies each year
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports on the mysterious case of the disappearing school staff Parents who are considering sending their child to one of the growing number of academies, primary and secondary, that are run by the Harris Federation … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, Harris Primary Purley Way, Roke Primary, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Harris Federation, Kenley, Roke Primary, South Norwood, Tory
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GCSE figures put Croydon schools at bottom of their class
Last week, the Department for Education published the 2013 statistics for GCSE pupils across the country. As Inside Croydon has already reported, based on these results, not a single Croydon state secondary managed to make it into the top 200 … Continue reading
Posted in Addington High, Archbishop Lanfranc, Archbishop Tenison's, BRIT School, Coloma, Croydon High, Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Oasis Academy, Schools, Tim Pollard
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Education, GCSE, London Borough of Croydon, schools, Tory
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