Here is a section from an english lesson at Gateway Academy. Here, the teacher wants the students to understand the nature of empathy as illustrated in a number of poems such as those written by the war poets and the works of Thomas Hardy.
AUSCHWITZ survivor, Leslie Kleinman is a remarkable man. Mr Kleinman has been coming to the school for several years now to bear witness to what he survived.
As well as significantly increasing the quality of education provision available to Thurrock’s young people, the £45 million College has long been identified as a key element of the ambitious proposals to regenerate Grays. The construction of the College will deliver more than 2,000 students and staff into the heart of the town centre which it is hoped will provide a significant shot in the arm to local businesses.
YEAR 10 pupils at Grays Convent School have raised an amazing £520.00 for the 'Make A Wish Foundation' by organising and staging a hugely successful talent show.
Parents, pupils and teachers were treated to a variety of acts from all year groups including singers, a comedy double act, rappers and traditional Indian dance.
Jonathan Greig, Catering Services Co-ordinator said: “We have three vacancies in our Hospitality Apprenticeship Academy so this event is the perfect opportunity to recruit young people interested in starting an exciting new career. At present we have around 20 Apprentices in the Academy but eventually we are hoping to expand to around 30. We’re looking for three people to start immediately so I’d advise anyone interested in a Catering Apprenticeship to come along and find out more.”
THE ANNUAL careers fair at Harris Academy (Chafford Hundred) has always been busy but now that they have a flourishing sixth form, the parents and pupils have flooded in.
IT WAS just like Rydell High at Ormiston Park last week. Indeed you expected to hear principal Skinner's voice booming over the airwaves as students at Ormiston Park Academy in Aveley got to grips with the wonders of radio.
A further excellent contribution to ‘Our House’ was the comical trio of Joe’s friends. Lewis (played by Connor Allen), Emmo (played by Jack Cowen) and Reecey (played by Morgan Robertson) were endlessly entertaining and provided bursts of laughter throughout the play. The energy, enthusiasm and fun that they displayed on stage was admirable and truly enjoyable to watch.
Mr Metcalfe said: "Will my right hon. Friend the Minister join me in reassuring my constituents that, unlike the views of the Opposition, under our scheme a top-quality university degree will actually cost them only £30 a month when they are earning £25,000 a year?
Why should we settle for an average university when we can push students to go onto the best ones? Every student has the potential and every student has the environment to exercise that potential, so why? Why isn’t that six percent of students attending “good” universities in Thurrock, sixty?
But staff, students and a number of organisations are planning to make big changes at the island. In this, the first of many films, YT speaks to deputy head, Lesley Durso and some of the pupils as to what they are planning to do.
Many of the students will have seen her steely eyed competitive streak on ITV's "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here." but in Thurrock Fatima is best known for her athletic prowess in the eighties where she won two olympic medals, a world championship and broke the world record in 1986.
THE PRINCIPAL of Palmer's College, Mark Vinall has hit back at concerns that only 6% of students at the Chadwell Road college go on to "good" univeristies.
Orsett Conservative councillor, Mike Revell challenged education bosses at Thurrock Council last week over the low numbers of students going to top universities. In 2009-10, no Thurrock student went up to either Oxford or Cambridge and all other stats see Thurrock languishing near the bottom of the league.
Here is a fascinating lesson which is a bit like a Rolf Harris painting. At the beginning, we are not sure how it will all come together but as the lesson progresses, the year 8 students "get it"
