Tag Archives: Riddlesdown Collegiate

Royal Academy takes right steps with schools dance show

Posted on May 10, 2023 by insidecroydon

More than 100 pupils drawn from Riddlesdown Collegiate, Orchard Park High, Cheam High, Coombe Wood and Hayes schools last week came together, perform and share their passion for dance at Step Around Town Croydon 2023, organised by the Royal Academy … Continue reading →

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Wilfried Zaha Academy summer camp, Purley, Jul 26-Aug 27

Posted on June 17, 2021 by insidecroydon
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Half-term gymnastics and trampolining classes, Riddlesdown

Posted on February 12, 2016 by insidecroydon
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Croydon’s ‘independent’ state school that still sets the 11-plus

Posted on October 4, 2015 by insidecroydon

Education correspondent GENE BRODIE on how selection in our schools has never really gone away Did you know that the 11-plus is alive and thriving in a Croydon state school? Many of the Year 6 pupils who prepared diligently for … Continue reading →

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How you can tell which schools are really making the grade

Posted on August 11, 2013 by insidecroydon

School pupils – whether attending the borough’s high-profile independents, our state secondaries or the privatised academies – will be receiving their life-shaping GCSE, AS and A level results in the next few weeks. Education correspondent GENE BRODIE provides an insider’s … Continue reading →

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Gove’s Roke “consultation” uses figures that do not add up

Posted on May 23, 2013 by insidecroydon

One of the basics taught at every primary school is adding up. Trouble with Michael Gove, the education secretary, and the “consultation” he commissioned on the future of Roke Primary School, is that none of it adds up. Roke is … Continue reading →

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