Category Archives: Paxton Academy

Kids’ holiday club faces disaster as council withholds grants

Posted on August 16, 2022 by insidecroydon

With just days to go before the start of the summer holidays, the organiser of an established and council-approved children’s activities centre was told he would not receive any funding. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The organiser of a kids’ summer … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Education, Paxton Academy, Thornton Heath, West Croydon | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Amazing lockdown efforts as school starts Parcels for Pupils

Posted on June 2, 2020 by insidecroydon

Schools and businesses continue to raise money and collect donations of food to support families around the borough whose circumstances have been affected by coronavirus and a loss of earnings. In Thornton Heath, the Paxton Academy primary school has identified … Continue reading →

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Tory flagship free school Portakabin Academy rated inadequate

Posted on February 1, 2020 by insidecroydon

GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, on how Conservative policy has failed staff, parents and – above all – pupils at a Thornton Heath primary One of the Tory government’s flagship free schools, the Paxton Academy in Thornton Heath, has been … Continue reading →

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Plan rejected for primary on busy Thornton Heath road

Posted on April 21, 2017 by insidecroydon

Education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports on an important decision for the future health of generations of school children taken at last night’s planning committee Councillors on Croydon’s planning committee last night unanimously rejected a proposal to build a three-form-of-entry primary … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernadette Khan, Education, Environment, Jamie Audsley, Paxton Academy, Planning, Schools, Stuart King, West Thornton | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

‘Seriously flawed’ plans for Portakabin Academy’s new home

Posted on April 19, 2017 by insidecroydon

GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on how millions of pounds of public money are being spent to build a school next to a busy road at Thornton Heath which even a Labour council cabinet member thinks will have too many pupils … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Paxton Academy, Schools, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Stuart King, Thornton Heath, West Thornton | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

£82,000 wasted on Norbury free school that never opened

Posted on December 29, 2014 by insidecroydon

More than £80,000 of public money was wasted on preparation work for a Tory-backed free school in Thornton Heath which never opened, according to figures released through a Freedom of Information Act request from Steve Reed OBE, the Labour MP … Continue reading →

Posted in Advance School, Croydon North, Education, Environment, Norbury, Paxton Academy, Planning, Schools, Steve Reed MP, Thornton Heath | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Paxton Academy pitches in at Thornton Heath rugby club

Posted on September 25, 2014 by insidecroydon

If mens sana in corpore sano – a healthy mind in a healthy body – was good enough a philosophy for those fortunate to have access to the playing fields of Eton, then it should also good enough for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Paxton Academy, Rugby Union, Schools, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Thornton Heath | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments