A GROUNDBREAKING partnership between Thurrock schools and India was celebrated at Ormiston Park Academy last week. Connecting classrooms sees Ormiston Park Academy, Dilkes primary, East Thurrock primary and East Tilbury infants (as well as schools in Bromley) link up with schools in India.
A PACKED house at Gateway Academy came together to celebrate the achievements of last years students as well as many other students still at the school. Headteacher Kevin Sadler paid tribute to the students for their achievements both academic and in extra-curricular form as the school forges ahead.
Senior Project Worker for Zinc, Sonia Cakebread said, “We are delighted to be able to expand our work with vulnerable young people in Thurrock thanks to the support we have received from Thurrock Development Corporation.” She added. “Zinc is committed to working with disadvantaged and disabled young people and will continue to pursue further funding to do similar projects in Thurrock in the future.”
At the next unannounced inspection, they found the provider failed to admit to pleading guilty to three offences, did not provide truthful information regarding their role as a director or their level of qualification, used literature that is a direct copy from another provider, returned a form with an invalid signature and failed to manage the safe recruitment of suitable individuals. A driver stated when interviewed under caution that he was allowed to transport children on a provisional licence.
Ama Bankah, 31, had been working as a supply teacher, three years ago, when the practice came to light.
The General Teaching Council's professional conduct committee heard Ms Bankah claimed the placard was used as a 'behaviour management technique'.Every time she rang a bell, all the children had to sit quietly and those who didn't would be 'caught' by the 'hangman' which was the name of the picture on the placard.
On Friday the school helped raise funds as Oliver has been accepted for an operation in the United States where he would have to stay for around a month. Pupils came to class dressed as everything from cowboys to nurses. Oliver’s family is trying to raise £40,000 before April for the trip and op which will release the tension in his legs so that he may not need a wheelchair as he grows older.
Prison! Me? No Way! is a highly successful crime prevention workshop which visited Gable Hall School, Corringham, and Hassenbrook School, Stanford-le- Hope, following funding from the Thurrock Community Safety Partnership. Volunteer prison officers were joined by Essex Police, Essex Fire and Rescue Service, Thurrock Women’s Aid and local magistrates at the event. The message from all representatives was the same: committing a crime will affect your life, family, job prospects and ultimately your future.
THE OUTSTANDING Ofsted report on William Edwards School and Sports College will be seen as a crowning glory in the careers of head, John King and deputy head, Ralph Henderson.
YES, you have read that correctly: 16 GCSE's! On Thursday night, Daria attended the Ormiston Park Academy, Presentation Evening to pick up the award for Outstanding Student of the Year. As Deputy Head Huw Derrick said: "I scoured the papers and couldn't find another student in the country that had done as well as Daria."
For two nights and playing to packed crowds, Let Him Have It has been a living, breathing example of how the course works as a number of disciplines across the curriculum. Let Him Have It is based on the story of Derek Bentley, a british teenager, hanged for the murder of a policeman in 1953.
PERSISTENT ABSENCE rates at Benyon Primary school in South Ockendon have hit a staggering 15.6%. The figures released by the Department of Education refer to the period between Autumn 2009 and Spring 2010.
How on earth the attendance got to that stage is a question for another time, however, since the arrival of interim head, James Kenyon, a quiet but significant educational revolution has begun to take place in the north of the borough.
As you may well know, Ormiston Park Academy has a hopeful future ahead with all its exciting plans. Last year’s CVA result, 1047 put them in the top 2% of schools in the country and therefore a result of 1070 has stood them in good stead as its first year as an Academy, and being able to fulfil these ambitions that were once dreamed of, has certainly secured an exciting future.
Thurrock knew they had to dig deep in the second half as they would be playing against the wind and uphill against a determined Havering team. This was certainly the case and Thurrock demonstrated a great sense of team spirit in keeping out the Havering strike force. However, with ten minutes left, Havering's pressure paid off when the Thurrock midfield lost the ball and Havering whipped in a shot that went past the outstretched Thurrock keeper. It was now nail-biting stuff as Thurrock dug deep to stop Havering from equalising. As the clock ticked by, Havering was awarded
The trip — supported by the Government’s Take Part programme and organised by the council’s diversity team — saw the group travel to Krakow on Saturday and return home on Monday (15 to 17 January).
At a meeting of the Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation's (DC) planning committee yesterday (Monday), committee members were satisfied that there had been a satisfactory response to the suggested conditions discussed at the meeting in December.
