The Thurrock Learning Campus will play a key role in increasing the opportunities for local people to gain the skills and knowledge needed to access high quality and well paid employment. The 15,000 sq.m campus will also provide Further Education and opportunities for adult community education and work based learning.
In a meeting on Monday night, the Governing Body considered the outcome of their consultation and agreed that it was in the best interest of the pupils and staff of the School to become an academy and join Harris.
IT IS a simple idea and yet such an effective way of disseminating history. Speed-history. Several senior residents of Thurrock sit at a table in the hall. The students are divided into groups and they spend ten minutes in the company of the resident, listening to their war-time experiences.
THE SOUNDS of Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and Dire Straits boomed out from William Edwards recently as the school put on a rock night. Students produced a fantastic and entertaining set which kept the audience entertained.
Gable Hall’s male staff are completing a special ‘Movember’ in aid of the Essex Air Ambulance charity. Last year, they raised just under £1000 last year through members of the PE Dept growing moustaches for the month of November.
THEIR GLEE rehearsals are only just beginning but the keen kids of Ormiston Park Academy got onto the stage to show everyone what they could do. Even thought they were first on, they stayed on for the whole show.
WE RECENTLY spoke to head cook at one of the senior schools and she felt that primary students are now approaching healthy eating in a much more positive manner.
Pat Higgins, course leader for BTEC Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production (TV & Film), teaches students at the Thurrock Learning Campus in Grays, but by night he robs graves and is a bit of a demon with a chainsaw, all in the name of art obviously as he is a successful low budget horror filmmaker.
The two-day residential trip tested the students’ sailing ability together with skills in planning, leadership, teamwork and problem solving. Students learned to sail in all directions and are now able to sail in light winds under supervision. With the support of qualified instructors and dedicated lecturers they sailed through their Royal Yachting Association Level 1 Dinghy Sailing qualification.
"Despite our huge levels of improvement, we are still well short of the level of success we aspire to and we must meet our aims with action."
He said: "We are determined that young people who have got off to a poor start are not allowed to fall through the cracks and badly damage their future prospects.
After helping the Nursery Nurses carve out the pumpkin lanterns, they all tucked into roasted pumpkin seeds and homemade pumpkin soup – yum, yum! Afshan Din, Nursery Manager said “Halloween is sometimes a controversial event in Day Nurseries but here at Twizzle Tops we keep it fun and just part of the autumn calendar of events.
WE DON'T often ask people to stop and watch our films. There are 3,500 of them. But just take a minute or two to watch our film of the Treetops school's harvest festival assembly. On a friday morning at the Buxton Road school, the hall was packed as parents crammed in to see an assembly where every single student took part.
FOUR generations of Arthur and Diana Clarke's family joined Davy Down trustees, councillors and officers in the planting of an oak tree beside Stifford Pumping Station. It was a bitter sweet occasion for Diana as she spoke fondly of how fitting it was that we were planting an oak.
Linda Catton Headteacher said “We are always overwhelmed by the continued support and generosity of our schools community, I hope that all Thurrock schools support Jon Dell ad his efforts in Thurrock this year”.
THE SECOND showcase session of musical talent at Gable Hall showed what the senior pupils at the school can do. Once again the teachers stressed that this was all about learning your trade.
