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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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Town centres to get small grants for undecided ‘improvements’
The council is beginning a set of projects “to transform” (their words) five of the borough’s district centres with funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. But the money – £833,000 – will be spread very thinly between the five … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, Purley, Schools, Selsdon and Addington Village, Thornton Heath, West Croydon
Tagged Conservative, Crosfield Nursery, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Road, Maintained Nursery Schools, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington, nursery schools, Purley, Selhurst Nursery, Selsdon, Tory, West Croydon
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Victorian schools where Scripture had priority over science
In a previous article, JERRY FITZPATRICK, pictured right, looked at the history of Croydon’s first state school as it marks its 150th anniversary. Here, he sets out what school life was like in the final years of the 19th Century, … Continue reading
Community campaigns join forces to fight for nursery schools
Parents’ groups call on £84,000 per year Croydon Mayor to provide assurance that none of the borough’s maintained nurseries will be closed Two volunteer community groups have joined forces to organise public opinion against the latest proposed cuts to services … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Education, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley, Schools, Selhurst, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elizabeth Daniels, Emma Gardiner, London Borough of Croydon, Maintained Nursery Schools, Nursery Schoold consultation, nursery schools, Purley, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Thornton Heath
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NHS staff given short notice of closure for hospital’s nursery
Parents and carers working at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital face an anxious few weeks, as many are being forced to seek new day care provision for their pre-school children after it was announced that the on-site nursery is to close on … Continue reading
77% of Croydon’s pre-school children lack trained teachers
Our education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports on some worrying findings for Croydon parents about teaching provision in local nursery schools Croydon is in the bottom five of local authority areas across the whole of England for the provision of pre-school … Continue reading
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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