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 ...
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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 ...
Read More »Leaked school document warns of bleak future under Tories
A DRAFT PAPER – apparently intended to be read out to staff in an East London school just before the Christmas break – shows the extent to which the British education system may already be changing under the new Tory ...
Read More »Excellent GCSEs for London Enterprise Academy students
PUPILS AT the London Enterprise Academy are ecstatic after surpassing expectations to achieve excellent results. The principal Ashid Ali described the results as “fantastic”. The school reached the national average for pupil progress and attainment in eight subjects and exceeded ...
Read More »Jamiatul Ummah turns in outstanding GCSEs
THIS YEAR’S GCSE results have again been a credit to the hard work of pupils at Jamiatul Ummah school – and the dedication of their teachers and strong support from parents. There is a new system of grading GCSEs this ...
Read More »Stephen Timms MP visits local holiday club
CONTROVERSIAL EAST HAM MP Stephen Timms took time out to visit a holiday club at a local primary school last week. The Club was part of Sainsbury’s Active Kids scheme, which supports activities in 70 locations across the UK. The ...
Read More »Could school have saved Karan’s life?
IT IS NEARLY two years since Rina Cheema lost her only son, Karan, at the age of just 13. She had always worked so hard to protect him from his grave allergies – but the school she trusted to be ...
Read More »Labour blasts Tory Tec-Unis as too little, too late
QUEEN MARY, University of London, is one of three new “Institutes of Technology” which the Government plans to set up across the UK to act as a vocational alternative to universities. The UK has long been seen as a country ...
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