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Category Archives: Virgo Fidelis
Great North Wood under threat from holy order’s £3.5m scheme
A holy order of Catholic nuns wants to hack down mature and healthy trees in a specially protected site, part of the ancient Great North Wood, and then use the timber to build a “visitor attraction” to commemorate… the Great … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Church and religions, Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Housing, Pat Ryan, Planning, Schools, Stephen Mann, Steve Reed MP, Virgo Fidelis, Wildlife
Tagged Congregation of Our Lady of Fidelity, Croydon, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Steve Reed OBE, Upper Norwood, Virgo Fidelis, Virgo Fidelis Convent School
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Two private schools to move into vacated Virgo Fidelis site
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on how an Opus Dei Catholic education trust is paying the £5m cost of repairs to a grand Gothic building in Upper Norwood, while Croydon Council Tax-payers are still getting stung with a £4m bill … Continue reading
Posted in Cedars School, Education, Lloyd Park, Oakwood, Purley, Schools, Virgo Fidelis
Tagged Cedars School, Lloyd Park, Oakwood School, Purley, Upper Norwood, Virgo Fidelis Convent School
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Whitehall picks McArdle to sort out council’s financial mess
CROYDON IN CRISIS: At Monday’s cabinet meeting, the council leadership repeatedly denied that the appointment of an Improvement Board from Whitehall will amount to a takeover. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… Tony McArdle, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Lisa Taylor, Schools, Section 114 notice, Tony McArdle, Tony Newman, Virgo Fidelis
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, S114, Section 114, Simon Hall, Tony McArdle, Tony Newman, Virgo Fidelis, Virgo Fidelis Convent School
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Parents’ concern as schools stay silent over coronavirus
Parents and staff at some Croydon schools are becoming concerned that information about cases of coronavirus afflicting pupils and teachers is not being shared with the schools’ broader community. In some instances, it has been alleged that year group “bubbles” … Continue reading
‘No longer viable’: council sounds death knell for Virgo Fidelis
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE on the impending closure of another, once proud and successful, secondary school Croydon Council’s ability to run down long-established church schools to the point of closure continues, while at the same time they have been lavishing … Continue reading
Five more local schools affected by coronavirus positives
At least five more schools in Croydon and Sutton, including two large secondaries, have been hit by positive tests for covid-19 among their staff or pupils, after just the first full week of the new school year, with one borough … Continue reading
240 Virgo Fidelis pupils sent away due to unsafe buildings
Old and poorly maintained school buildings could hasten the closure of what was once a proud Catholic girls’ school. By our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE A landmark Victorian school building in Upper Norwood is “not currently safe for pupils and … Continue reading
Head quits as ‘high risk’ Virgo Fidelis struggles with budget
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports on the latest setback suffered by one of the borough’s oldest schools Virgo Fidelis girls’ convent school in Upper Norwood will start the new school term in September with its fifth headteacher in barely three … Continue reading
Wanderers FC Grand Opening, Virgo Fidelis School, Nov 2
Posted in Football, Virgo Fidelis
Tagged Upper Norwood, Virgo Fidelis School, Wanderers FC
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Cleaners at catholic girls’ school to go on strike over job cuts
“It might look a bit like Hogwart’s,” the campaigners’ slogan states, “but the only magic they do at Virgo Fidelis is make cleaners disappear.” And in a fight against redundancies and to improve terms, cleaners at the Virgo Fidelis Convent … Continue reading
