YOU CAN help raise money for Mayflower pupils by getting sponsored for you own Covid-safe individual or family event. You can set your own distance and decide whether you will run, walk or cycle. The sponsorship money raised will go ...
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New film asks if drug use is just black and white
WHAT’S THE COST of a wrap of drugs? It’s not just the money the purchaser hands over to the dealer. That’s the point the Metropolitan Police are making in a new short film brought out to help young people understand ...
Read More »New partnership promotes “read while you feed”
A new partnership between the National Literacy Trust, the Mayor’s Fund for London and HarperCollins will give 9,000 brand new children’s books to London families who are being supported by the Mayor’s Fund for London’s Kitchen Social food programme. The ...
Read More »Manorfield makes its marq-uee on space issue
MANORFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL will be trialling a new method of optimising space so that children who return to school can learn and socialise while maintaining social distance. The plan comes from architects Curl la Tourelle Head, which has suggested that ...
Read More »Boris or Biggs: who’s right on return to school?
IT’S NOT JUST our working and social lives that came to a halt when the Lockdown was announced. For young people from three to 18, their worlds shrank as schools closed and they were sent home. Is it time for ...
Read More »3-2-1 Manorfield returns with chocoholics’ dream raffle
EASTER IS BUT a distant memory – so now we have to find other reasons to indulge in a chocolate treat. Fear not: now you can indulge with a clear conscience in a win-win offer from Manorfield School. Paul Jackson, ...
Read More »MP says schools can’t return to “business as usual”
TEACHERS, support staff and a massive range of administrative workers and community volunteers are rallying round across Tower Hamlets to support children who are not able to go into school during the current Lockdown. Support offered to Tower Hamlets school ...
Read More »Manorfield Head runs a lockdown marathon
AS WE KNOW, life is a marathon, not a sprint – and the headteacher of Manorfield Primary School in Poplar is taking this saying to heart. He’s trying to raise funds to help pupils through the second phase of the ...
Read More »Last day to help Manorfield and try to win an Easter egg
YES, most of us celebrated Easter last weekend – but Manorfield Primary School in Poplar seems to be running on the Greek Orthodox calendar. It is raffling ten luxury Easter Eggs to raise funds for children in need during the ...
Read More »Manorfield launches COVID-19 appeal
CHILDREN AND STAFF at Manorfield School in Poplar are doing their best to adjust to the COVID-19 lockdown – but they have found the time to launch an appeal to help the wider local community. Forty members of staff are ...
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