YEAR 11 Leavers returned to Hassenbrook Academy in Stanford le Hope this week to attend a Celebration Evening acknowledging the best results in Hassenbrook’s history. Sir Graham Bright, chair of governors and ex-head boy of the school attended the event and presented the many awards.
GRAND-parents and residents quizzed the education boss at Thurrock Council last night (Wednesday) over places for reception year students at Bonnygate primary in South Ockendon. Concerns were raised a couple of weeks ago, that many parents would miss out on a place as the two form (60 students) entry would revert back to its old one form (30) students.
ORMISTON Park Academy have been working with the Student Engagement Trust on raising students’ aspirations and engagement in academy life. They have developed a number of projects which includes the establishment of a student group, called ‘Students For Solutions’ who aim to improve the involvement of students in the learning process and act as the voice of all students as well as role models for their peers.
A GROUP of Ockendon Studio School students are looking at green issues for businesses putting forward ideas on how to reduce electricity usage by looking closely at where and how electricity is used in their school.
THE Friends of Grays Convent Association has been set up to support the school by fundraising and organising social events. It is one of the ways they hope to build a sense of community within the school, by getting to know each other, and at the same time raise funds for the benefit our daughters.
THE NUMBER of students going through the doors at Harris Academy sixth form centre continues to grow and grow. There are many reasons for this. The first is that it is one of the great success stories of the borough and so when students from all across Thurrock and Essex see the students dressed for business in a state of the art sixth form, they feel this is where they want to be.
STUDENTS from The Grays School Media Arts College became World Record Breakers on 21st November. A group of 30 Year 7 students and 4 teachers travelled to the O2 arena to participate in the Rubik's Challenge which was organised by Depaul UK, the largest youth homelessness charity in the country.
YOU could tell that this was a special year group for the teachers at Harris Academy Chafford. They came to the school in 2007, a year which signalled the school's amazing trajectory upwards.
LAST week the ReAction Theatre Company displayed the true talent and potential of young people in Thurrock. The remake of the famous ‘Fame the Musical’ took place at Gable Hall School on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday when hundreds of people flocked to support their friends and family.
The Gable Hall school junior boys Badminton team won the Thurrock schools tournament on Tuesday (20th November). They beat William Edwards in the final to progress through to the county tournament in January.
THERE IS one challenge in undertaking a catering course in college and there is quite another, to have to prepare everything in the middle of a shop floor! Well, that is what the brave students at South Essex College did recently, when they went to Ikea to prepare a swedish smorgasbord of delicacies.
A dozen of Thurrock’s best young musicians graced the stage of the Thameside Theatre in Grays on Monday (19 November) evening.
The finalists of Thurrock’s Young Musician of the Year 2012 had been chosen from a series of masterclasses led by musicians from the Royal Opera House held a week earlier.
STANFORD and CORRINGHAM sixth form student, Georgia Robertson won the Thurrock Young Musician of the Year award for 2012. The adjudicator from the Royal Opera House pointed to the passion and life Georgia breathed into her version of "On my Own" from Les Miserables.
THURROCK Council’s library service is supporting the education of children even before they start school by offering them free book sharing Treasure Bags from Bookstart.
