AWARD FOR FORMER BECKET SCHOOL PUPIL
Nicola Cooper (nee Walton), a former Becket School pupil who is employed by IBM, won the Young IT Professional of the Year award at this year’s UK IT Industry Awards. Nicola (pictured right) grew up in Gamston and attended the school on Wilford Lane, before reading Computer Science at Sheffield University. Since graduating with a [...]
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD AT ABBEY ROAD SCHOOL FAYRE
Nottinghamshire County Council leader, Kay Cutts, donned a cook’s hat apron at the fourth annual village show at Abbey Road Primary School. The school is a leading light in the Food for Life programme which aims at teaching children how to cook healthier meals and eat good food. Councillor Cutts inspected the prized marrows, beetroot, [...]
SOPHIE COLLECTS BUILD A HOUSE PRIZE
West Bridgford’s Sophie Emami has won £500 for her school in the FHP Living’s build a house competition – when her dream home treehouse caught the eye of judges. Four-year-old Sophie beat off stiff competition from many other entries from pupils across West Bridgford. Sophie received a £500 cheque for her primary school. The money [...]
GREEN FLAG AWARD FOR RADCLIFFE SCHOOL
Pupils and staff at Radcliffe-on-Trent Junior School have been rewarded for their ongoing environmental, ecological and sustainable approach to learning, by receiving the Eco Schools Green Flag award. The school played a significant part in the village’s recent successful Greening campaign and changed its own eco-code to help promote awareness of household emissions. Older pupils [...]
STARS OF THE FUTURE IN KEYWORTH
A famous face visited Willow Brook Primary School to help choose the winner of its prestigious X-Factor competition. Andrew Monk, the Nottingham-based Simon Cowell look-a-like and a former semi-finalist on Britain’s Got Talent, came to the Keyworth school in the guise of the world famous talent show judge. Andrew cast his eye over the finalists, [...]
TOP MARKS FOR KEYWORTH PRE-SCHOOL
Willow Brook Pre-School in Keyworth has been judged as ‘Outstanding’ by school regulators Ofsted. An unannounced visit last month noted that the school provided an “excellent level of care”. The inspection reports also notes the “exceptional partnership with parents” and the “high standards embedded across all areas of practice.” The pre-school is unique in Keyworth [...]
COTGRAVE SCHOOL RAISING STANDARDS
A school in Cotgrave has become one of the first in the country to be selected for an important new role aimed at further raising standards. The Cotgrave Candleby Lane School is one of only 100 schools in England to be granted teaching school status, which is a new designation entitling it to lead the [...]
PUPILS MAKING A DRAMA OUT OF WASTE
Pupils at West Bridgford Junior School made a drama out of food waste as part of this year’s National Recycle Week. Members of Nottinghamshire County Council’s Schools Waste Action Club (SWAC) team visited the school last month. Supporting the theme of Love Food Hate Waste, they worked with pupils in special drama workshops to look [...]
GOLF DAY TO BE HELD BY COTGRAVE SCHOOL
Cotgrave Candleby Lane School (pictured below) is holding a golf day on Wednesday 31st August at the Nottinghamshire Golf and Country Club in Cotgrave (tee times starting at 10.30am). All proceeds will go to developing Cotgrave Studio, a new community facility at Cotgrave Candleby Lane School. This project is fundamental in offering more opportunities to [...]
DAYNCOURT STUDENTS SEARCH FOR FAIRER WORLD
Over the last month, Year 8 Geography students from Dayncourt School in Radcliffe have been investigating how fair the world is for men and women, with the help of Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum. They used their imaginations to take on the roles of government ambassadors as they researched the UK, Sweden, Afghanistan, India, China and [...]