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Tag Archives: schools
Union demands action over school staff’s term-time only pay
Support staff working in schools in Croydon and across the country are losing out on millions of pounds in pay because of unfair, term-time-only contracts, research by the GMB union has found. Teaching assistants, catering staff, caretakers, administration staff and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Schools
Tagged GMB, National Joint Council, School support staff, schools, Stacey Booth
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Croydon among worst boroughs for measles vaccine uptake
The half-term break could not have come soon enough for some primary schools and health administrators in Croydon, where the vaccination rate for measles is lower than most of our neighbouring boroughs. Outbreaks of the measles virus among schoolchildren on … Continue reading
Old Palace pupils deliver improved grades in school’s final year
It was a poignant A-Level results day in Croydon Old Town, where the last cadre of pupils in Old Palace School’s 136-year history received the news that could shape their adult lives. Old Palace of John Whitgift formally closed its … Continue reading
Charity in appeal for volunteers to help as Schoolreaders
Schoolreaders, a national charity dedicated to improving children’s literacy, is seeking volunteers to provide vital reading support to primary school children. One-quarter of children are leaving primary school each year unable to read to the expected standard. This means they … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Education, Schools
Tagged charity, primary schools, Schoolreaders, schools
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NHS advice and help to avoid loneliness over summer holidays
The NHS website offers advice to teens during the summer holidays on different ways to cope with loneliness and isolation: Keep in touch with friends and family on a regular basis Join a group or club Do things you enjoy, … Continue reading
1,000 Harris academy staff in call for improved conditions
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on how a publicly-funded academy chain is failing to pay support staff inner London Living Wage while expecting teachers to work an extra 16 hours per week unpaid – yet its Croydon-based CEO is on … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Harris Academy Beulah Hill, Harris Academy Crystal Palace, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, Harris Primary Purley Way, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, Eudcation Uncovered, Harris Federation, schools, Sir Daniel Moynihan, Warwick Mansell, Wellesley Road
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Youth knife crime review stresses agencies’ powerlessness
It is not difficult to summon up that feeling of absolute hopelessness that occurred on a morning last autumn when you first heard the news that a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Elianne Andam, had been stabbed to death while on her way … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Crime, Croydon Council, Debbie Jones, Health, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon murder, Croydon Safeguarding Children Partnerhip, CSCP, Debbie Jones, Elianne Andam, knife crime, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, murder, schools, youth knife crime
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There’s more to a good school than high-scoring SATs results
2023 PRIMARY SCHOOL TABLES: When choosing a child’s primary, sometimes the DfE numbers don’t add up, writes GENE BRODIE, education correspondent PLUS: Full listing of Croydon school scores When primary school league tables were first published back in the early … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Education, English, Maths, New Addington, primary schools, primary schools league table, Reading, SATs tests, schools, Science, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Waddon, Writing
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Half of borough’s schools expected to close for teachers’ strike
GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the likely impact of next month’s industrial action by the National Education Union At least half of Croydon’s state schools will close for the day on Wednesday, February 1. Most of the others will offer … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Dave Harvey, National Education Union, NEU, schools, Tory
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40% of Croydon pupils miss out on first-choice school places
Official figures show that 4 in 10 Croydon children have been denied their first-choice secondary school place next September, one of the poorest allocations in the whole of London. Across the capital’s 32 boroughs and the City of London, an … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Schools
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Croydon Council, London Councils, schools
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Half-term report: Is 49% really a pass mark for this test?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After the respite of a week away from the virtual chalkface, the borough’s teachers are warily preparing themselves to be subject of the latest ‘Boris Big Bang’ As the UK slips down the rankings for the highest per … Continue reading
Teachers ‘at breaking point’ over covid-19 class conditions
Our education correspondent, GENE BRODIE, on the growing disquiet among teachers in Croydon and across the country over the risks that they face from coronavirus The leader of a teachers’ union has written to government to warn that “secondary schools … Continue reading
School report: teachers are coronavirus’s new frontline workers
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After the first full week back in the classroom following six months of lockdown, one locally based teacher* offers their thoughts on what life is like under the ‘new normal’ The sanitation stations with their alcohol-based gel are … Continue reading
Borough’s schools are left to implement own covid safety plans
Croydon Council has left it to the individual boards of governors of the borough’s schools to decide on what measures they and their headteachers need to take to ensure that their schools are “covid-safe” for a return to the classroom … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Education, Schools
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon Council, schools, Tony Newman
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Ten top tips for getting your child ready for return to school
Ahead of the start of the new school year, CATHERINE LYNCH, from education and lesson-planning experts PlanBee, has 10 tips for getting young ones ready and eager to learn As families struggle to deal with the fall-out from exams chaos, … Continue reading
Learning lessons from teaching remotely during lockdown
Secondary school teacher KEN TOWL on how he and his pupils have managed to master the technology and the etiquette of staff meetings during the coronavirus quarantine With just 10 minutes of the lesson to go, instead of the expected … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ken Towl, Schools
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Ken Towl, schools
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Rewards for school attendance send out the wrong message
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Just who are those attendance certificates that the children brought back from school at the end of term for: the kids, or their parents? KIRSTIE SMITH has a view Many children will have come home after their last … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Kirstie Smith, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Kirstie Smith, primary schools, schools
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LFB: ‘Devastating consequences’ of schools without sprinklers
The London Fire Brigade says that the failure to fit sprinklers in schools could have “potentially devastating consequences”. Inside Croydon has revealed that not a single one of 35 school builds in Croydon in the past five years have had … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, London Fire Brigade, Schools
Tagged Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, schools, Tony Newman
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Council returns £250,000 pupil premium and doesn’t know why
Cash-strapped Croydon Council sent back nearly £250,000 of education funding unspent to Government last year. The cash represents almost one-quarter of Croydon’s pupil premium, intended for some of the borough’s most in-need children. And probably most worrying of all, when … Continue reading
Harvey heads line-up for Education in Crisis Assembly debate
Philipa Harvey, one of the National Union of Teachers’ national officers, and Ted Knight are among the key note speakers on June 28 when the Croydon Assembly stages an “Education in Crisis” meeting at Ruskin House in Croydon. Teachers are … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 EU referendum, Croydon TUC, Education
Tagged Croydon Assembly, Croydon TUC, Education, schools, Ted Knight
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Council’s £170,000 per year education chief is set to retire
Paul Greenhalgh, one of Croydon Council’s most senior executives, is to retire from his job in Fisher’s Folly this summer. Aged 61, Greenhalgh will step down from his £170,000 per year position as “Executive Director, People” at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Nathan Elvery, Paul Greenhalgh, schools
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‘I wish I could have gone to the BRIT School’ says Cowell
Simon Cowell took time-off from X Factor yesterday to pay a flying visit to the BRIT School in Croydon. “The second I pulled up I thought, ‘Why didn’t I go to a school like this?’ I would have loved it, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music, Schools, Theatre
Tagged Adele, Brit School, Education, schools, Simon Cowell, X Factor
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Whitehorse’s golden shed declared ‘best school in the world’
Suitably reproached, GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has been set 100 lines: “I must not slag off dodgy-looking modern architecture” Two years ago, an extension to a Thornton Heath primary school had its design described in the Croydon Sadvertiser as … Continue reading
Posted in Schools, Whitehorse Manor
Tagged schools, Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Whitehorse Manor
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Fear and loathing in Upper Norwood as an inspector calls
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE on a gathering storm of controversy over a disputed Ofsted inspection at one of the secondary academies in the north of the borough The Anti Academies Alliance, an organisation of teachers, parents and educationalists who oppose … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, schools, South Norwood, Tory
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