Two years of hard work has forged a partnership between a Tilbury company and an Ockendon school, who together have won a tremendous award.
The Ockendon School in Erriff Drive, and Cargill plc started working together in 1999, developing an unused part of the school as a pond and to investigate the ecological structure of a medieval drain, the Botney channel, running through the company's site.
On Thursday the school was presented with £1,000 by the Careers, Research and Advisory Centre in Cambridge for securing the Most Effective and Outstanding Partnership in the Ford-sponsored CRAC awards scheme.
Barbara King, headteacher at the school, said: "The school and Cargill have developed a partnership which has grown far beyond what was first envisaged."
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Published Monday December 17, 2001
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