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Tag Archives: Education
Paxton Academy pitches in at Thornton Heath rugby club
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 Education, Paxton Academy, schools, Thornton Heath
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Local youngsters get a chance for a dramatic start at Whitgift
Whitgift School, through its head of drama, Paul Wilson, appears to have made a move in a positive direction for the local community with the launch next Saturday of the Whitgift Academy of Visual and Performing Arts. This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Music, Theatre, Whitgift School
Tagged drama, Education, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Ofsted reports signal concerns over College’s free school plan
The school places shortage has already prompted a range of daft ideas in Croydon, from the notion of sticking a primary school in a listed building overlooking a six-lane urban motorway, to building on Metropolitan Open Land with barely a … Continue reading
Croydon Carnival of Books, Central Library, Aug 27-30
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Libraries
Tagged Central Library, Clocktower, Croydon, Education, Reading
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How was your child affected by Norbury free school shambles?
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, makes an appeal to hear from parents who considered applying for a place for their son or daughter to attend one of Michael Gove’s promised free schools Inside Croydon wants to hear from you if … Continue reading
Posted in Advance School, Education, Norbury, Schools, Thornton Heath
Tagged Advance Norbury, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Education, Free Schools, Michael Gove, Norbury, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Dungeons, dragons and books: summer reading challenge
The Reading Agency and Croydon Libraries are working together to present a Summer Reading Challenge, based on mythical characters from books, with a £100-worth of books on offer for Croydon schools that take part.
Park Hill School summer fair: June 21
Posted in Education, Fairfield, Park Hill Junior, Schools
Tagged Education, Fairfield, Park Hill, schools
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Fit 2 Learn sees a new way to help all our children learn
A Croydon-based company, Fit 2 Learn, is applying the lessons learned in Olympic-level sports science to ensure that all children can get the most from their education. Fit 2 Learn is challenging the idea that learning difficulties are a life-long condition. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Schools
Tagged Charlotte Davies, Education, Fit 2 Learn, schools, South Croydon, Waddon
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Weenies Meet Artist Hale Man at Whitgift Centre, May 27-28
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Art, Education, Hale Man, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon High’s jazz fans welcome a Fairweather friend
Croydon High is delighted to announce that they are hosting an exciting musical event, Croydon High S’Cool, featuring Digby Fairweather on Friday June 13, from 7pm. Fairweather has been a full-time jazz musician since 1977 and is very well-known and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon High, Music, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon High School, Digby Fairweather, Education, George Melly, Jazz
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Cynical Croydon charging children £3,500 for remedial lessons
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports on some disturbing developments at the borough’s state primary schools Croydon Council is charging the parents of some primary school children more than £3,500 per year just so that they can receive their legal right … Continue reading
St Giles’ primary school annual open morning, May 21
Posted in Activities, Education, St Giles' School
Tagged Education, SEN, St Giles School, Waddon
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Our two-year-olds need a childhood, not lessons in Latin
SUSAN OLIVER, pictured left, wants the borough’s teaching professionals to come forward and make their voices heard, perhaps even to challenge the controlling orthodoxies of Michael Gove and Ofsted Children should be taught in schools from the age of two … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Riesco Collection, Schools, Susan Oliver
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Education, England, Michael Gove, nursery schools, Ofsted, schools
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Arena Academy proposals look like a quart for a pint-sized plot
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Dealing with the borough’s school places shortage is looking to be a particularly difficult problem, especially in finding suitable sites, writes ANDREW PELLING Croydon Council faces an extraordinarily difficult task in finding sites for new schools to accommodate … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon FC, Croydon Harriers, Education, Environment, Mayor of London, Parking, Planning, Property, Ryelands Primary and Nursery, Schools, South Norwood, Sport, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Arena Academy, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Arena, Croydon Council, Education, London, schools, Tory, Trams
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Plans for school next to Country Park revealed tonight
The latest version of a plan to build a 1,200-pupil academy-operated secondary school close to or even on (supposedly protected) Metropolitan Open Land in South Norwood Country Park and next to Croydon Arena will be given an airing tonight. Croydon … Continue reading
The cheap ‘meal’ deal that could cost NHS upto £4.2bn a year
Does Croydon have a childhood obesity crisis? Ever wondered why?
Academy head’s warped priorities: A Roke by any other name?
There has been a civil emergency going on in the Kenley area of Croydon for the past week. Residents of homes in one road have faced the prospect of being flooded out. The A22 Godstone Road has been impassable because … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, flooding, floods, Harris Federation, Kenley, Purley, Roke Primary, schools, South Croydon, Steve O'Connell
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No head, no leader, no planning: doubts over Free School
Plans for a three-form entry primary Free School on Highbury Avenue appear to be in some disarray, with no head teacher yet appointed just seven months before the school is supposed to open, no planning approval granted to build on … Continue reading
Posted in Advance School, Alisa Flemming, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Dudley Mead, Education, John Wentworth, Maggie Mansell, Norbury, Schools, Tim Pollard, Uncategorized
Tagged Advance School Norbury, Alisa Flemming, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Dudley Mead, Education, John Wentworth, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Primary school, Russell King, schools, Thornton Heath, Tim Pollard
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GCSE figures put Croydon schools at bottom of their class
Last week, the Department for Education published the 2013 statistics for GCSE pupils across the country. As Inside Croydon has already reported, based on these results, not a single Croydon state secondary managed to make it into the top 200 … Continue reading
Posted in Addington High, Archbishop Lanfranc, Archbishop Tenison's, BRIT School, Coloma, Croydon High, Education, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Oasis Academy, Schools, Tim Pollard
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Education, GCSE, London Borough of Croydon, schools, Tory
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One-fifth of an academy’s pupils “disappear” before GCSEs
An academy run by the Harris Federation in Croydon saw more than one-fifth of its pupils “disappear” before it was time for them to take their GCSEs. According to a report in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper, there was a fall of … Continue reading
St Giles School invites you to its annual Fun Day: June 15
St Giles, the special school on Pampisford Road for pupils with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and learning difficulties, aged from 4 to 19, is staging its annual Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 15, from noon to 3pm, and … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Community associations, Education, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Education, England, Learning disability, London, Recreation and Sports, Special education
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Council accused of broken promise to disabled children
A father from South Croydon has accused Croydon Council of acting unlawfully and immorally over the decision in 2011 to stop providing transport to disabled children attending the Purley Oaks literacy centre. The centre is run by Croydon Council and … Continue reading
Teachers to quit Oval Primary before move to Academy
According to parents who attended the latest meeting at controversial Oval Primary on Wednesday, the majority of existing teaching staff plan to resign ahead of the school’s handover to an educational group headed by a leading Tory party millionaire.
