Tag Archives: Science

Charities team up with a festival of football for primary pupils

Posted on July 25, 2026 by insidecroydon

Palace for Life, Crystal Palace FC’s charity arm, is taking part in a community summer school being staged in South Croydon next week, with club coaches staging a football festival as the grand finale for more than 150 children from … Continue reading →

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Physics award-winner to give Astronomical Society talk

Posted on April 17, 2024 by insidecroydon

Arabi Karteepan, recently named as the winner of the Royal Astronomical Society’s prestigious education award, is to give a talk tomorrow night in Croydon: “A journey to reach the Stratosphere”. Croydon High School’s head of physics will explain how the … Continue reading →

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Croydon High to go even higher with space satellite project

Posted on March 15, 2024 by insidecroydon

Croydon High is about to go even higher! The girls’ independent school in Selsdon who last year ran a special astronomy club project that sent a pair of weather balloons into space has confirmed that it is now working to … Continue reading →

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There’s more to a good school than high-scoring SATs results

Posted on January 31, 2024 by insidecroydon

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 →

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