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Trinity Boys’ Choir plays starring part in West End opera
The Trinity Boys’ Choir has been receiving rave reviews again, this time on stage with the English National Opera. BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, used her freedom pass to go ‘up West’ It is a sign of Trinity School’s decades-long … Continue reading
Primary school and Rotarians give the finger to polio
Members of one of Croydon’s longest established charity groups have teamed up with children at a local primary school to raise money and awareness to help eradicate polio. Croydon Rotary Club was celebrating the founding of the movement in 1905 … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Rotary Club, Schools
Tagged Broadmead Primary School, Croydon Rotary Club
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Road safety worries see plans for free school reassessed
GENE BRODIE reports on how residents’ concerns have forced developers to re-think their proposals a massive new selective school No sooner has planning permission been granted for a selective school to move on to what was, until recently, Green Belt … Continue reading
Posted in Coombe Wood School, Education, Planning, Schools
Tagged Coombe Wood School, South Croydon
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Transport report for free school site rates it ‘poor’ to ‘worst’
Residents in South Croydon, living close to the site of the £30million free school which has been granted planning permission by Croydon Council, fear that the decision will make the 180 11-year-old first-year intake vulnerable to the high volume of … Continue reading
Love Your Bike Week is about to ride into Croydon schools
Next week is Love Your Bike Week in Croydon, with events popping up at schools to encourage kids to use their bicycles, fix and maintain bikes and provide advice and help for novice cyclists. Among the various bicycle-related activities is: … Continue reading
Museum of Croydon gets its suffrage banners on parade
Croydon residents are showcasing their craft skills at the Museum of Croydon in a London-wide project celebrating 100 years of votes for women. They have joined museums, archives and arts organisations across the capital taking part in the 100 Banners … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon High, Education, History, Museum of Croydon
Tagged Croydon High School, Museum of Croydon
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Save Our Schools: Croydon Assembly debates education
The Croydon Assembly is meeting at Ruskin House on February 24 for a day’s debate and discussion entitled “Save Our Schools – Stop Education Cuts”. Work by the National Education Union and local Labour MP Sarah Jones has shown that … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Education, Ruskin House, Schools
Tagged Croydon Assembly, Ruskin House, Ted Knight
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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
MP Jones describes Government nursery cuts as ‘a disgrace’
Sarah Jones, the Labour MP for Croydon Central, has branded as “a disgrace” the Government decision to cut a grant to a specialist nursery in South Croydon which, for the past 40 years, has helped school-aged mums get back into … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Education, Sarah Jones MP, Schools, Selsdon & Ballards
Tagged Cotelands Nursery, John Ruskin College, Sarah Jones MP, Selsdon
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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
Labour backs plan to build selective school on Green Belt
KEN LEE reports on a planning application that would lead to Croydon getting its first grammar school since the 1970s A planning application is being considered by the council to develop a site in Croydon’s Green Belt, concrete over some … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Coombe Wood School, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Education, Paul Scott, Planning, Schools, South Croydon, Tony Newman
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coombe Wood, Coombe Wood School, Croham Ward, Croydon Council, Folio Trust, Labour, Lloyd Park, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
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Sign-up for local author’s book launch, South Croydon, Dec 7
South Croydon writer David Matthews is staging the official launch and book-signing of his debut novel, That They Might Lovely Be, next Thursday, December 7, where copies of the book will be on sale with more than one-third off the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Church and religions, St Andrew's
Tagged David Matthews, St Andrew's Church, St Andrew's School
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Benson Primary Christmas Fair, Shirley, Dec 2
Posted in Schools, Shirley North
Tagged Benson Primary School, Harris Primary Academy Benson, Shirley
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CACFO Education Centre given ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report
Another week in Croydon, another inadequate report from Ofsted inspectors. This time it is for the CACFO Education Centre in Thornton Heath, and follows an inspection in June. The inspectors’ report rates the specialist centre overall as “inadequate”, with “Effectiveness … Continue reading
Car lobbyist Morgan now insists: don’t walk, it’s dangerous
Walking to school is dangerous. That’s the considered advice of a … car campaigner from Coulsdon, as he tries to block a Croydon Council initiative to reduce polluting exhausts and to get some of the borough’s primary-aged children daily exercise … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Croydon Council, Environment, Parking, Schools, Stuart King, Transport, Walks
Tagged Association of British Drivers, Coulsdon, Peter Morgan
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£100m black hole in SEND funding is creating ‘perfect storm’
Croydon headteachers fear that they face a “perfect storm” as funding cuts will leave their schools unable to fulfil their responsibilities towards some of the borough’s most vulnerable children, those with special educational needs or disabilities. Sarah Jones, Labour’s new … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Education, Sarah Jones MP, Schools
Tagged Croydon Central, Labour, Sarah Jones, Sarah Jones MP
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Rotary club helps pupils dig in to fight against polio
Pupils from Broadmead Primary yesterday planted crocus bulbs at the neighbouring King George V playing fields in Gloucester Road, to help to raise awareness of Rotary Club of Croydon’s End Polio Now campaign. The Mayor of Croydon, Councillor Toni Letts, … Continue reading
