Junior school shortlisted for Tes award LEO Academy Trust, which serves pupils across six schools in Sutton, have announced one of their schools has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. Cheam Common Junior Academy is in the running for the Tes Schools Award which celebrates hard work in schools. The school has been selected as a finalist for the Best use of Technology category, in recognition of its outstanding digital provision for pupils and staff. With the coronavirus pandemic creating significant hurdles for teachers and families to overcome during the past year, the annual award is a timely opportunity to applaud schools who have gone the extra mile to support their communities.
Gymfinity Kids on Gillette Way Car parking space outside a kids gym in south Reading could become a children’s outdoors play area, under new plans. Gymfinity Kids Ltd has submitted proposals to Reading Borough Council (RBC) to create the play area, a bin store and a plant compound next to its building on Gillette Way, Whitley. The gym has 49 car parking spaces at the the site but seven car parking spaces would be lost under the plans. However, previous plans to extend the building, which were approved but never went ahead, would have seen 36 spaces removed and were “considered to be acceptable on the basis of alternative parking facilities at the site which had ample capacity”.
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SOCIAL media stars the Four Little Farm Boys have inspired their primary school to embark on a Summer of Kindness campaign with their own efforts. Thomas, 8, Sebastian, 7, Jacob, 6, and Henry, 2, have been undertaking random acts of kindness for almost a year through lockdowns and home schooling. To stay connected with friends, spread positivity and kindness, their mum, Amy, set up the Four Little Farm Boys Facebook page, regularly sharing their adventures. However, the family’s efforts have now led the boys’ school, Hunter Hall in Penrith, to create a lower school-wide ‘Summer of Kindness’. Head of Early Years Foundation Stage, Georgina Griffiths commented: “We have been so inspired by the Four Little Farm Boys’ acts of kindness over the past 12 months, that we have decided to take part in our own Summer of Kindness. Over coming weeks, the children will be undertaking acts of kindness in school and the community.”