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Essex academy schools: Are they working?
1:00am Wednesday 24th February 2010
THE growth of school academies has been a hallmark of the New Labour years and there are now five in Essex. How effective are they?
£2m for temporary classrooms at Philip Morant
7:00am Wednesday 10th February 2010
TEMPORARY classrooms costing £2million will be built at a Colchester secondary school, just years before it gets a £27million upgrade.
School extends its China curriculum to Year 8 girls
4:59pm Monday 8th February 2010
ORIENTAL folk dancing and calligraphy were some of the classes pupils at a Colchester school got to grips with as part of a China Day.
Brainwave for a new wheelchair
7:10pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010
SCIENTISTS in Colchester have designed a robo-wheelchair which responds to brainwaves.
School deletes pupils' pictures from newsletter
4:00pm Tuesday 6th October 2009
A Braintree school's decision to remove photographs of pupils from the online version of its newsletter has been branded “ridiculous”.
Councillor's plea to Ed
9:00am Thursday 1st October 2009
A COLCHESTER councillor has urged education secretary Ed Balls to keep secondary education on offer in the south of Colchester.
Key into music and you’ll learn life skills
10:50pm Tuesday 29th September 2009
WITH a growing emphasis on youngsters learning life skills, one subject promises to teach them all – music.
MOT for teachers will just put more stress on all of us
10:50pm Tuesday 29th September 2009
IF the Government has its way, from next year all teachers will have to apply for a licence to teach.
Schools dishing up best-ever dinners
8:50pm Tuesday 29th September 2009
SCHOOL dinners have evolved since the days of cold sausages and lead-like semolina, and now has never been a better time for children to eat the food their school provides.
Teacher's online guide provides a helping hand for youngsters
8:00pm Tuesday 15th September 2009
Teacher Peter Inson has launched a website he hopes will help pupils to achieve their goals.
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