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PUPILS and staff at a Chester high school have been going above and beyond to help families in need over the past month. Since joining staff to run a 5km DIY Santa Dash and drumming up over £1,500 in sponsorship for The Hospice of the Good Shepherd and Blue Skies Balcony Appeal at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Queens Park High Schools Sixth Form Leadership Team have organised a whole school charity event to raise money for Save the Children and support The West Cheshire Food Bank. Be...

Published: 12:36 PM January 22, 2021    Touring poet, playwright, and performer, Inua Ellams will be performing his specially-commissioned poem, A Reflection on the Year. - Credit: HENRY NICHOLLS A day of free virtual events featuring a publisher, podcast host, and touring poet, has been set up by a group of teenagers in Norfolk.   Eighteen young people from the Lit From the Inside professional development programme at the National Centre for Writing have spent months planning the series of ...

The Sixth Form Centre at the King’s School Gloucester has undergone a £2 million redevelopment to transform the 13th century building into a modern new space for the next generation of students. As well as offering an outstanding education; varied co-curricular activities from music to sport; as well as leadership opportunities; its Future Skills programme gives sixth formers the opportunity to learn valuable life skills, from cooking to budgeting, to help get them ready to live independent...

​St Peter’s Sixth Form students have been praised for their outstanding attitude to home -learning in lockdown.

EXCLUSIVE: First look inside the King’s School Gloucester Sixth Form Centre Following its £2 million refurbishment, SoGlos took a tour of the impressive new Sixth Form Centre at the King’s School Gloucester. The King’s School Gloucester has spent £2 million transforming its 13th century Sixth Form Centre into a modern new space for its students and the community. Gloucester’s prestigious King’s School has unveiled its new Sixth Form Centre after investing £2 million on its refurb...

15th January, 2021, Port-of-Spain:“I was truly buoyed to view the 18 th National Youth Parliament Debate; it was certainly a show of youth who are passionate, intelligent and excellent researchers. These qualities align with my Ministry’s philosophy that youth should participate in decision-making for matters that impact them.” This, from the Minister of Youth Development and National Service, the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds as he praised the Youth Parliamentarians who recently participat...

EVEN by Covid standards, it’s been a bit of a white-knuckle ride on the roller-coaster of life these past few weeks, and as if an emergency appeal by the South West Acute Hospital for off-duty staff to come in wasn’t enough, we have the whole ‘hokey-cokey’ of disrupted learning, exams and assessments starting to brew up – something that every pupil, parent and teacher is fully aware of. Starting first with the transfer test, let’s look at what we have. Currently, there are two com...

Published: 5:00 PM January 19, 2021    Louis Sanders, the chairman of Great Dunmow Round Table presents a cheque to Great Dunmow mayor Mike Coleman for the Mayor’s Charities fund. - Credit: Alan Stratton Great Dunmow Round Table chairman Louis Sanders has presented £2,000 to town mayor Mike Coleman as a contribution to the mayors fund for charities. The money was raised by Round Table members through their inaugural Drive-In Cinema, hosted at Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre. ...

Seven cases relate to yesterday's nine positive results

An instruction sheet handed out at Holderness Academy and Sixth Form in Hull, was supposed to help pupils draw an owl, but the swear-laden guide was less than helpful.