THIS week (Thursday, 29 March) there are 99 days to go until the Olympic Torch Relay comes through Grays. As it’s undoubtedly ice cream weather, Thurrock Council thought it was an ideal opportunity to celebrate with a group of pupils from Quarry Hill Primary School in Bradleigh Avenue..
ANY COLLABORATION with the Royal Opera House seems to bring the best out of the Thurrock schools. This collaboration was no exception with both students and staff extolling the virtues of the project. YT spoke to student Grace Barlow about the installation and why they were taking the mayor on a tour.
SOMETIMES, it is hard to edit down an hour lesson into a ten minute package. Mr Smyth's lesson on the war poem: "Anthem for Doomed Youth" was a classic example. Indeed, it may have worked better as a one-hour, no-edit piece.
THEY ARE a fit lot down at the Corringham school and to prove it seventeen members of staff ran to school on Friday for Sports Relief. They came from miles around: North Stifford, Basildon and even Leigh-on-Sea! in order to raise money.
READING fans young and old packed the children’s area of Grays Library on Thursday (22 March) as author Seema Barker read one of her books, The Tangle Fairy.
HARRIS ACADEMY (Chafford Hundred) held a Darwin Day at the school last week. Infact, when it comes to evolution, it was a significant day as for the first time, students from many of the Harris Federation gathered at the "Outstanding" school.
Additional funding from the Arts Council England has also made it possible for Futures Theatre Company - in partnership with local Theatre Company Impetuous Kinship - to deliver the performances and workshops completely free of charge to year eight, nine and ten students in schools in Thurrock. These will help young people develop strategies to tackle sexual bullying.
Shadow portfolio holder, cllr Mike Revell examined the Key stage 2 results (primary) and said:
"Once again, there doesn't seem to be any real challenge to the poor set of primary results. The sooner many of these primary schools are academies the better."
Indeed, in filming this year ten, religious education class, you can see how Mrs Collis is nurturing and developing the great minds of the future. In many ways, this is just a snapshot of the reasoning and thinking skills developed at the school. But you do get a sense that this is such a rich quarry of high aspiration and ambition.
AFTER SCHOOL sports activities around the borough usually involve football, rugby, hockey etc. So it is a surprise to see archery flourishing at Ockendon Academy.
Year eight student, Thomas Boatman took up archery just over a year ago. He is a member of the flourishing West Essex Bowman who practise over at Belhus Country Park.
But it is at school and in the early years (year eight) where students really get to grips with the key skills in information technology. In many ways it gets students to slow down and consider the subjects and all they key requirements.
AT first glance, this film of a morning spent at Treetops school in Grays could be seen as footage of nursey children playing. But there is so much more to it and so much that shows why Ofsted have called the Buxton Road "Outstanding".
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Grays School student was found dead this morning at his home in Chafford Hundred. Emergency services were called at 6.40am this morning to Frobisher Road in Chafford Hundred where Kevin Komorah, 14, had been taken ill.
Johan de Beer was given a pedometer by Thurrock Council's Travel Thurrock Personalised Journey Planning team when they visited him at home offering information and advice on alternative ways to make everyday journeys. Mr de Beer gave the pedometer to his daughter who started to count the steps she took walking to Deneholm Primary School in Culford Road, Little Thurrock.
BUT was the high-light a great dance-off to Disco Inferno? (it is at 7.55 if you want to skip forward on the film). An Eisteddfod is a welsh celebration of culture and learning. In the scottish highlands, it is called a Mod (no not them with the parkas!).
