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Vulnerable, Underprivileged Children: Cameroon, UNICEF Offer Videography, Photography Skills The Ministry of Social Affairs, MINAS and the charity, Pentecostal Advocates for Socio-economic Development, PENASED, on May 17, 2021 began a videography and photography workshop for 20 vulnerable and underprivileged children. The participants aged 10-24 are from Despite the putting in place by Cameroon of a legal framework to protect children, especially by ratifying almost all international legal instruments, formal and community systems for child protection remain wanting. Thus, the protection...

AN ACADEMY leader and former headteacher has urged parents to get their pupils tested for Covid-19 as schools start back next week. Clive Corbett, former head of Pershore High School and current Executive Officer of Avonreach Academy Trust has said that although testing places an extra strain on schools as they start back on Monday, it is vital to help prevent a spike in infection rates as school children and staff come together again. Mr Corbett said: “While the testing puts a burden on schools, testing is vital to prevent another spike in infection rates and I want to strongly encou...

AN ACADEMY leader and former headteacher has urged parents to get their pupils tested for Covid-19 as schools start back next week. Clive Corbett, former head of Pershore High School and current Executive Officer of Avonreach Academy Trust has said that although testing places an extra strain on schools as they start back on Monday, it is vital to help prevent a spike in infection rates as school children and staff come together again. Mr Corbett said: “While the testing puts a burden on schools, testing is vital to prevent another spike in infection rates and I want to strongly encou...

1 The death of my father MY father was originally a Cistercian monk. He decided to leave the monastery though, and worked in a jeweller’s shop in Nottingham. This was where he met my mother, through the Catholic church in the city. She was working in Nottingham as a teacher, having moved from her home town of Montrose. My childhood was actually pretty idyllic. I have a brother, Christopher, and a sister, Mary Jane, and the five of us had a good life together. We moved to Chepstow in South Wales. That had been a huge change because we moved from a house with a garden to a shop that my ...

How are you? by Holly Timmis, Bancroft’s School Although online school is not the most welcomed format of education for many, under the circumstances, it provides structure and an enjoyable interlude to the days that all currently seem the same. Bancroft’s School, despite not being able to welcome its students back, has made every effort to implement a routine and make life feel as ‘normal’ as possible. Such efforts include adhering to the usual timetable and reintroducing extra-curricular clubs online via Microsoft Teams as a diversion to the monotony of the new way of life. Add...