Tag Archives: schools

Learning lessons from teaching remotely during lockdown

Posted on June 29, 2020 by

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 →

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Rewards for school attendance send out the wrong message

Posted on December 27, 2018 by

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 →

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LFB: ‘Devastating consequences’ of schools without sprinklers

Posted on August 16, 2017 by

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 →

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Council returns £250,000 pupil premium and doesn’t know why

Posted on August 1, 2016 by

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 →

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Harvey heads line-up for Education in Crisis Assembly debate

Posted on May 30, 2016 by

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 →

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Council’s £170,000 per year education chief is set to retire

Posted on January 27, 2016 by

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 →

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GCSE results show academies struggling to make the grades

Posted on November 22, 2015 by

If our education correspondent GENE BRODIE had to do an end-of-term report for the borough’s academised secondary schools after the 2015 GCSE results, then “Could do better” might be regarded as an understatement If you’re a parent seeking an educational … Continue reading →

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‘I wish I could have gone to the BRIT School’ says Cowell

Posted on September 30, 2015 by

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 →

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Whitehorse’s golden shed declared ‘best school in the world’

Posted on September 29, 2015 by

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 →

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Fear and loathing in Upper Norwood as an inspector calls

Posted on July 9, 2015 by

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 →

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