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Croydon Minster choir on the road to Windsor and the Abbey
Today marks the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Windsor, who as Queen Elizabeth II set records as the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch – 70 years and 214 days – until her death in September 2022, aged 96. So … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Music, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Minster choir, David Morgan, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II, St George's Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, Whitgift School, Whitgift School Choir
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Memorial to victims of Lanfranc air disaster to re-open this July
NEIL BENNETT reports on the fund-raising success and hard-work – even by some doing community service – to make a garden in Croydon Cemetery a fitting memorial to the 39 people killed when their aeroplane crashed into a Norwegian mountain … Continue reading
Posted in Archbishop Lanfranc, History, Neil Bennett, Sanderstead, Schools, Thornton Heath, West Thornton
Tagged Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon Cemetery, Lanfranc air disaster, Neil Bennett, Rosalind Jones, Simon Trehearn, Suzy Stowell, The Lanfranc Boys, Thornton Heath, West Thornton
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Waterstones’ primaries enjoy poetry, mysteries and recycling
Thousands of children from two dozen local schools got a World Book Day token and an inspiring lesson from an author or illustrator to mark World Book Day at the Whitgift Centre’s biggest book shop More than 3,500 pupils from … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Business, Education, Poetry, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged All Saints Church of England School, Applegarth Academy, Broadmead Primary, Chestnut Park Infants and Chestnut Park School, Courtwood Academy, Croydon, Ecclesbourne Primary, Harris Haling Primary, Heathfield Academy, Howard Primary, Howard Primary School, Park Hill Infants and Junior, Parkhill Infants and Parkhill Junior school, Purley Oaks School, Quest school, Regina Coeli Primary, Robert Fitzroy Academy, St Aiden’s Primary, St Mary's Catholic Junior School, St Peter's Primary School, The Crescent Primary, The Good Shepherd Primary, Tudor Academy, Tunstal Nursery, Waterstones, Waterstones Croydon, Whitehorse Manor, Whitgift Centre, Winterborne Primary, World Book Day
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Whitgift crowned national schools rugby champions once again
Whitgift School has once again won the national schools’ rugby cup. The under-15s squad triumphed 32-26 last week in a hard-fought final at Ealing against defending champions Northampton School for Boys in the Continental Tyres Schools Cup.
South Croydon primary part of £45m national nursery scheme
Regina Coeli, the Catholic primary on Pampisford Road in South Croydon, is among 34 new or expanded schools in London to receive funding to provide extra nursery provision from September. Inside Croydon reported in January how Regina Coeli had been … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Regina Coeli, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Bromley, nursery schools, Regina Coeli Primary School, South Croydon, Sutton
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BRIT School dance star ready to face his Hollywood challenge
With half-a-million followers on TikTok, a former pupil at Selhurst’s world-famous performing arts school is preparing for a career-defining move. And Brett Sewell tells GABRIEL MacARTHUR there’s no ‘Plan B’ There is something cinematic about the image Brett Sewell paints … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Gabriel MacArthur, Schools
Tagged Brett Sewell, Brit School, Dua Lipa, Gabriel MacArthur, Harry Styles, Kelly Rowland, Lana Del Rey, The BRIT School
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Trinity pupil wins best child actor in WhatsOnStage awards
A first-year pupil at Trinity School in Shirley has been named best child actor of the year in the WhatsOnStage Awards for his performances at the National Theatre’s Land of the Living. Anton Vehring is 11 years old. He made … Continue reading
Police make arrest in Croydon over ‘School Wars’ messages
EXCLUSIVE: Met promises ‘robust’ action, dispersal orders and stop and search ahead of further social media advertised meetings The police have made an arrest in Croydon in connection with the “School Wars” social media messages which went viral across London … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood School, Crime, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy South Norwood, London-wide issues, Norbury Manor, Oasis Academy, Orchard Park High, Policing, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Wars, Harris Beulah Hill, Harris Invictus, Harris Purley, Harris South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Norbury Manor, Oasis Arena, Orchard Park, Saffron Valley Collegiate, Superintendent Luke Dillon, Sutton, TikTok, Whitgift Centre
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All-star concert at Palladium to raise funds for the BRIT School
The BRIT School, the country’s leading performing and creative arts state school, has entered into a partnership for The Other Songs Live, being staged at one of the world’s most famous theatres, The London Palladium, on Tuesday, May 19. Tickets … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music
Tagged Adele, Grammys, Lola Young, Loyle Carner, Olivia Dean, Oscars, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden, The BRIT School, The BRITS, The Kooks, Tom Holland
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Union demands action over school staff’s term-time only pay
Support staff working in schools in Croydon and across the country are losing out on millions of pounds in pay because of unfair, term-time-only contracts, research by the GMB union has found. Teaching assistants, catering staff, caretakers, administration staff and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Schools
Tagged GMB, National Joint Council, School support staff, schools, Stacey Booth
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Police use stop-and-search powers to counter ‘Croydon Wars’
There were no arrests across London yesterday, as the threatened youth violence prompted by social media messaging failed to materialise. Now some suggest the ‘Red v Blue’ messages are all a hoax A large police presence in Croydon town centre … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood School, Crime, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy South Norwood, London-wide issues, Norbury Manor, Oasis Academy, Orchard Park High, Policing, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Coloma, Commander Neerav Patel, Coombe Wood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Wars, Harris Beulah Hill, Harris Invictus, Harris Purley, Harris South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Norbury Manor, Oasis Arena, Orchard Park, Saffron Valley Collegiate, Sutton, TikTok, Whitgift Centre
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Dozen social media sites ‘disabled’ over Croydon Wars stunt
Metropolitan Police says it is increasing number of officers patrolling around schools and town centre, ‘and we will respond firmly to any reports of violence or disorder’ A senior police officer based in Croydon has issued a statement seeking to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood School, Crime, Croydon Council, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy South Norwood, Norbury Manor, Oasis Academy, Orchard Park High, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Wars, Harris Beulah Hill, Harris Invictus, Harris Purley, Harris South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Norbury Manor, Oasis Arena, Orchard Park, Saffron Valley Collegiate, Superintendent Luke Dillon, Sutton, TikTok, Whitgift Centre
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Schools and parents on alert for next week’s ‘Croydon Wars’
Police and community groups are preparing for a week of “Croydon Wars”, after children aged as young as 12 have been encouraged on social media to take weapons with them to a series of “Red v Blue” fights between schools. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood School, Crime, Croydon Council, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy South Norwood, Norbury Manor, Oasis Academy, Orchard Park High, Schools, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Coloma, Coombe Wood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Wars, Hackney, Harris Beulah Hill, Harris Invictus, Harris Purley, Harris South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Norbury Manor, Oasis Arena, Orchard Park, Saffron Valley Collegiate, Sutton, TikTok, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon among worst boroughs for measles vaccine uptake
The half-term break could not have come soon enough for some primary schools and health administrators in Croydon, where the vaccination rate for measles is lower than most of our neighbouring boroughs. Outbreaks of the measles virus among schoolchildren on … Continue reading
Britain’s biggest children’s book festival is coming to Croydon
Croydon youngsters are to be offered a free day of “bookish fun” at the Ashcroft Theatre in the summer as part of the annual London Schools Literature Festival. The Whitgift Foundation is sponsoring the day’s activities, which will be organised … Continue reading
Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion
Less than a year after announcing the £30,000 a year fee-paying school would start offering places to girls, plans have gone in for works that will see its expansion to 1,400 pupils. By STEVEN DOWNES Plans for a £40million extension … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Kennedy, Business, Charity, Education, Old Palace, Planning, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Alasdair Kennedy, Croydon, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Shirley, Shirley Park, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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GMB to hold strike ballot over weighting pay in Merton schools
Support staff working at schools in Merton are to be balloted for strike action over a long-standing pay discrepancy. Teaching Assistants and school support staff in Merton receive London Weighting at the Outer London rate. Yet their teacher colleagues in … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Merton, Schools
Tagged GMB, GMB Union, Labour, London, London weighting, Merton, Merton Council, Ross Garrod
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Deputy mayor approves of Shirley Park’s free school meal deal
Joanne McCartney, the deputy mayor for children and families, visited Shirley Park Primary School this week to see how the Mayor of London’s universal free school meals programme for the capital’s state primary schools is benefiting children and their families. … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon East, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Natasha Irons, Schools, Shirley North, Shirley South
Tagged Croydon, Croydon East, Deputy mayor for children and families, Joanne McCartney, Labour, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Natasha Irons MP, Shirley, Shirley Park Primary
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Charity formed last October buys two Old Palace buildings
The Rise School of Excellence has paid £750,000 for two buildings on the site of the former girls’ fee-paying school, as Croydon’s biggest landowners, the Whitgift Foundation, continue to dispose of their properties. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent The piecemeal … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Serenity special school, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Hammersfield, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Old Town, Rise School of Excellence, Roisha Hughes, Serenity Special School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Brit School celebrates its made-in-Croydon Grammys hat-trick
News just in from Hollywood: former Brit School pupils have scooped the Grammys. The Brit School had a trio of Grammy winners in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Olivia Dean, Lola Young and FKA twigs, former pupils at the specialist … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music, Raye, Schools, Selhurst
Tagged Adele, Brit Awards, Brit School, FKA twigs, Grammys, Lola Young, Olivia Dean, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden
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Perry’s council fails to spend £74,000 from road safety budget
Under the Tory Mayor, Croydon axed six lollipop patrols outside primary schools last year in a cost-cutting measure. Yet now, according to Croydon East MP Natasha Irons, the council is sitting on a pot of grant money while children’s lives … Continue reading
Posted in Addington, Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Forestdale Primary, Mayor Jason Perry, Natasha Irons, New Addington South, Schools, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
Tagged Addington, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Featherbed Lane, Fickleshole, Forestdale, Forestdale Primary School, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, road safety, Tory, White Bear Pub
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Regina Coeli ranked in top 10% of England’s primary schools
South Croydon catholic school has expanded its offer to include a new nursery class Regina Coeli on Pampisford Road in South Croydon has been ranked the top primary school in Croydon and in the top 10% of primaries across the … Continue reading
From Carnegie Hall to Shirley: pianos centre stage at Trinity
Behzod Abduraimov, described by The Independent as “the most perfectly accomplished pianist of his generation”, is coming to Croydon next month to perform, not long after Trinity School stages its annual piano festival, which begins tomorrow. Abduraimov’s recital will take … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged Behzod Abduraimov, Shirley, Steinway, Trinity Piano Festival, Trinity School
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Charity helps South Croydon primary establish its new library
A charity dedicated to promoting children’s literacy by redistributing used books and creating inspiring reading spaces in primary schools has opened a library at Heathfield Academy in South Croydon. The school, on Aberdeen Road, was built at a cost of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged ABC Book Club, Aberdeen Road, books, Heathfield Academy, School libraries, South Croydon
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