by vinnie walsh | th Jan 2020 | News
Parents of children who will be four years old in September have to apply for a primary school place this week. Families based in England will need to list their preferred primary schools in an application. Click here to read everything you need...
by vinnie walsh | rd Jan 2020 | News
Fam, imagine if man said you couldn’t use words like “peng”, basically and “dem tings dere” in your classroom. Didn’t understand any of that? This might be because you were born in a different generation. Just imagine if you were...
by vinnie walsh | th Jan 2020 | News
Medway is to get a new secondary school. Plans for Leigh Academy Rainham have been approved for construction north of Westmoor Farm, Moor Road. Medway Council planning members accepted the proposal last night. Developers and the academy trust behind the project asked...
by vinnie walsh | th Jan 2020 | News
Putting challenging pupils in isolation for extended periods at school can harm their mental health, the Centre for Mental Health (CMH) is warning. The charity says the use of isolation rooms – and other restrictive interventions – can also...
by vinnie walsh | th Jan 2020 | News
Every school in England currently rated as “outstanding” would be inspected in the next five years, under proposals from the Department for Education. It would scrap the exemption, introduced in 2012, under which outstanding schools did not have to face...
by vinnie walsh | th Jan 2020 | News
Break times at school should not be reduced, because play is a fundamental human right, a children’s author and poet says. Michael Rosen, a former Children’s Laureate and author of We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, has joined a campaign to stop...
