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Category Archives: Oasis Academy
Mr Motivator gets Oasis pupils moving in Zaian fund-raiser
While Croydon Council flogs off one park lodge on the cheap today, tomorrow a charitable foundation with property assets worth nearly half-a-billion pounds will be staging a fund-raiser in another park to get the money to pay for the purchase … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Business, Charity, Church and religions, Crime, Education, Knife crime, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Schools
Tagged Ashburton Park, Ashburton Park Lodge, Mr Motivator, Oasis Academy Arena, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Steve Chalke, Zaian Aimable-Lina
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South Croydon teen wins census photo memory competition
Yoana Yakimova, a 14-year-old pupil at Quest Academy, South Croydon, has won £100 in Amazon vouchers for her winning photograph in a Census 2021 Time Capsule competition, devised to remind the public to complete this year’s census. The organisers asked … Continue reading
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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Badminton sessions, Academy Arena, every Wednesday
Posted in Oasis Academy, South Norwood, Sport
Tagged Oasis Arena Academy, South Norwood
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Councillor employed by Oasis charity makes grant to Oasis
Inside Croydon has discovered that Conservative councillor Gareth Streeter managed to oversee a £1,500 donation from council funds towards a group from the Oasis academy chain – the very same Oasis chain which is associated with the Oasis charity where … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Gareth Streeter, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Richard Chatterjee, Schools, Shirley North, Simon Hall
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Gareth Streeter, London Borough of Croydon, Oasis Arena Academy, Oasis Shirley Park, Richard Chatterjee, Shirley, Shirley North, Tory
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Oasis academy gets third principal in less than two years
There’s been an unusually rapid turnover of senior leadership staff at the Oasis Arena Academy in South Norwood, as GENE BRODIE reports A secondary academy that opened on its new site in September 2016 is already on to its third … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Oasis Academy, Schools, South Norwood, Woodside
Tagged Craig Griffiths, Oasis Arena Academy, Tom Raymond
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Oasis chief gets 20% pay rise as academies warn over finances
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE on an eye-watering salary hike for the man in overall charge of some of Croydon’s biggest schools The leader of a church-linked multi-academy chain which operates five large schools in Croydon has just been awarded a … Continue reading
Croydon’s ‘Olympic legacy’ has been turned into a private gym
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports on allegations of an abuse of public property by one of the country’s largest multi-academy trusts Council officials have been ordered to conduct an urgent investigation into how the Oasis Arena Academy in South … Continue reading
Church-linked academy chain denies having ‘religious ethos’
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, has found a new website which has discovered the Oasis academy chain, led by a Baptist minister, saying that they really have very little to do with churches or religion There have been calls for … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Paul Scott, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, Woodside
Tagged Chris Wright, Conservative, Croydon, Gareth Streeter, London Borough of Croydon, Oasis Academy Arena, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tory, Woodside
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None of Croydon’s new school buildings have sprinklers fitted
Not a single school building constructed or planned in Croydon over the past five years has been fitted with a sprinkler system, despite building regulations going back for a decade having an “expectation” that sprinklers should be included in all … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Harris Primary Purley Way, Howard Primary, London Fire Brigade, Oasis Academy, Planning, Purley Way, Schools, South Norwood
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Harris Federation, Harris Purley Way Primary, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Oasis Academy Arena, South Croydon, South Norwood, Tory
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£160m schools plan to be badgered over surplus places
In the thrall of property developers as usual, Croydon Council officials want to spend many millions of public money on building schools where there are not enough pupils. Education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports Croydon Council’s school-building strategy will come in … Continue reading
Something stinks: Arena car park has the builders in – again
And here you have it, from Croydon Council, the local authority that appears to relish spending millions of pounds of public money on construction projects, and then going back just a few months later and digging them up again. Barely … Continue reading
Something stinks at Croydon Arena after building works end
Something stinks at Croydon Arena. There’s a very earthy nature to the whiffs that have been detected on the cold winter winds. It seems that one of the sewers under the car park which is used by the sports arena … Continue reading
Woodside councillors take one-way route to a dead end
Residents living near Croydon Arena and South Norwood Country Park have had two years of turmoil as the council has gone ahead with building a massive secondary school. When they’ve turned to their Woodside ward councillors for help, well… GLORIA … Continue reading
Council’s chasm of unaccountability grows wider each day
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our borough’s elected representatives are being increasingly marginalised by a system that places huge power in the hands of a handful of unaccountable officials, writes STEVEN DOWNES Make the most of it at the Town Hall tonight. For … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Julie Belvir, Maggie Mansell, Nathan Elvery, Norbury, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Pubs, Purley, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Woodside
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Norbury, Purley, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Woodside
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Council lets builders turn Arena parkland into a car park
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE avoids saying “we told you so” about what promises to be a disappointing start to life at big school for the bright-eyed new Year 7s at the Oasis Academy alongside Croydon Arena Parents of children excitedly … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Croydon FC, Croydon Harriers, Cycling, Education, Environment, Hamida Ali, Jane Avis, Kathy Bee, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Schools, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, Wayne Lawlor, Wildlife, Woodside
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Arena, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Oasis Academy Arena, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
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Council presses on with £22m academy that no one wants
As Croydon Council prepares to give the go-ahead for a school which has just 29 first-choice applications, WALTER CRONXITE turns detective to investigate the mysterious case of the disappearing demand for school places Residents living near Croydon Arena in Woodside … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Wright, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Croydon Council, Education, Hamida Ali, Julie Belvir, Oasis Academy, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Paul Greenhalgh, Paul Scott, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, Oasis Arena Academy, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Oasis governors cleared to rule on academy planning decision
Croydon Council’s highly paid legal eagles see nothing wrong with current and former governors from an Oasis academy in the borough being part of a planning committee that is to decide on an application to build a six-forms-of-entry Oasis academy … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon North, Environment, Hamida Ali, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Schools, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Arena Academy, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Arena, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Oasis, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Woodside residents given fortnight to review Oasis plans
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Residents in Woodside have just received a special Christmas present – more than 2,000 pages of planning proposals for the Oasis Arena Academy, all to be reviewed and commented on by December 25. Not surprising that FRANCES FEARON … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Croydon Council, Croydon FC, Croydon Harriers, Education, Environment, Hamida Ali, London-wide issues, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, South Norwood, Sport, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, Wildlife, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon Arena, Hamida Ali, Labour, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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Arena trams ‘most congested part of network’ says Bee
Croydon Council’s planning committee meets next month to consider the application to build a massive secondary academy on Metropolitan Open Land next to Croydon Sports Arena. But the Labour-run council’s cabinet member for transport has already suggested that public transport … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Council, Education, Environment, Kathy Bee, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Oasis Academy, Parking, Paul Greenhalgh, Planning, Schools, South Norwood, Tony Newman, Tramlink, Transport, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged Arena Academy, Conservative, Croydon Council, Kathy Bee, Labour, Oasis, Tony Newman, Tory, Tramlink, Trams, Wayne Lawlor
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