GOVERNMENT figures released on Thursday (23 January) highlight the success of Thurrock’s schools in the summer’s GCSE examinations. Thurrock Council’s education portfolio holder, Cllr John Kent, said: “There are some really pleasing results among these statistics, but most of all we have to recognise the efforts of the students themselves, their families and their teachers. Well done to them all.”
TUDOR Court Primary School, Chafford Hundred is celebrating after receiving a congratulatory letter from the Minister of State for Schools, David Laws MP advising...
YT was at the Basildon campus the other day when we noticed a poster for the free dog grooming. We thought that was interesting. So lo and behold the good people at South Essex College produced this short film.
INADEQUATE teaching and poor behaviour have been highlighted by Ofsted in their latest inspection at Hassenbrook Academy in Stanford-le-Hope. The overall report has informed the school that they "require improvement ". This is the second such report in under two years. If the school are judged to require improvement again then they may be placed in special measures.
SOUTH ESSEX College opened its doors to prospective students recently to inform them of the wealth of opportunities at the new campus. This may well be the last open evening at the Woodview Campus, which in some ways is quite poignant but in many many other ways signals the opening of a wonderful new chapter in the life of South Essex College.
A COUNCILLOR faced tough questions on education when he visited St Mary’s Catholic Primary School on Thursday. Tunde Ojetola gave pupils in years 3, 4, 5 and 6 at the Tilbury school a crash course in what a local councillor does, and answered questions on two of the hottest topics in education right now.
OR should we say Aveley Comprehensive or Belhus Park Humanities College? Whichever school you identify with, the old school building was being demolished and...
TOP Thurrock councillors agreed to go out to tender on a series of schemes providing home-to-school transport in the borough.
Education portfolio holder, Cllr John Kent, told Wednesday (8 January) evening’s meeting of the council’s cabinet: “This council, like all others, is constantly having to find ways of saving money, sadly it is often in ways that are difficult for all concerned.
IT may not have been a Bafta nomination but South Essex College was named ‘Education Tweeter of the Week’ in a blog by Elephant Creative recently. The company said that ‘Twitter engagement at South Essex College is fantastic, excited students are tweeting and buzzing about their first day of term and the Twitter…team have opened the social platform for students to engage, interact and converse with staff, administrators and other students.’
THURROCK'S education portfolio holder visited one of the country’s best performing primary schools on Wednesday (8 January) and he didn’t have to step outside the borough. In fact Thurrock boasts two schools in the country’s top 250 – Tudor Court and Orsett C of E. The government announced the list of school ranked for progress between Key Stages 1 and 2 just before Christmas.
PALMER'S student and air cadet Lewis Coble spent over two weeks helping to renovate a remote school in the Thar Desert, north-west of India.
Lewis, 16 from Grays raised almost £1600 alone to help fund the trip by taking part in a range of fundraising activities including bag packing at his local Asda store, a yard sale and a sponsored trip to every underground station as quickly as possible.
ONE OF THE most frequently asked questions by prospective parents of students considering going to South Essex College is the question of how the course fits into the world of work.
HEADTEACHER, Lallie Godfrey, commented on the report stating, ‘Last year we had an OFSTED Inspection under the new and rigorous Framework and our school was judged to be Good with Outstanding for Behaviour and Safety and Leadership and Management. Since then everyone in our school has worked relentlessly to improve still further and this report, which judges us to be Outstanding overall, is a reflection of the success of the improvements that we have made and we are determined to continue to improve still further.’
THERE is less than a fortnight left to apply for a place at one of Thurrock’s primary schools this coming September. People who apply within the deadline have a far higher chance of receiving their first preference place.
During autumn pupils were invited to take part in a Raincoat poetry competition run by Thurrock Council’s road safety team. They were asked to say how much fun they can have splashing in puddles and how dry they stay when their under an umbrella or how much they hate the gloomy mornings.
