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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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Parents’ anger at “immoral” departure of admired school head
Parents at a Croydon primary are angry that they and their children have been treated in a “disrespectful, insensitive and immoral” manner by a interim board of governors, imposed on the school by the Tory Education Secretary, and which then … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Education, Roke Primary, Schools, South Norwood, South Norwood Primary
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Education, Labour, schools, South Norwood, South Norwood Primary, Tory
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How to get youngsters into work? Get them passing exams
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Much work has been done lately to try to improve the borough’s youngsters employability. But little was said about local schools’ GCSE results, writes CHARLOTTE DAVIES Jamie Audsley, a young, energetic and enthusiastic new councillor, last week laid … Continue reading
Labour council continues to charge for reading lessons
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has discovered that Croydon’s Labour-run council is using a legal loophole to continue to charge local children up to £3,500 per year just to teach them how to read and write Croydon Council continues to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Paul Greenhalgh, Schools, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Labour, Paul Greenhalgh, schools, Tony Newman, Tory
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Five Croydon primaries hit gold standard for school dinners
Five Croydon schools have achieved the Soil Association’s Food for Life Catering Gold standard for their healthy and wholesome school dinners. The schools receiving the award are All Saints Primary, Cypress Infants and Junior schools, Downsview Primary and Rockmount Primary. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Environment, Health, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Education, school dinners, schools
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Croydon primary school performance among worst in London
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has been crunching some numbers ahead of the new term. It doesn’t make encouraging reading If you are short of things to do in the New Year, there might be nothing more interesting to do … Continue reading
