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 [...]
TOP PERFORMERS AT RUSHCLIFFE SCHOOL
It has been a great academic year for performing arts at Rushcliffe School in West Bridgford. Firstly, there was the spectacular all-singing and dancing Oklahoma! production and next on the calendar for the Boundary Road-based school is the now legendary Springboard. Teacher Miss Cresdee told The Local News: “This year was the 16th consecutive year [...]
BUILD A HOUSE CHALLENGE FOR PUPILS
Hundreds of school children across West Bridgford and Nottingham are invited to become architects and builders in a competition being run by FHP Living. The leading firm of estate agents, which has opened an office in West Bridgford, has given primary age children the task of building a home of their own, with anything from [...]
SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR LOCAL SCHOOL
West Bridgford estate agents Royston & Lund have presented a sporting achievement award to Oscar Lowe at West Bridgford Junior School. Oscar received his award, not only for his all round sporting ability, but for his enthusiastic approach when playing sport. The award is part of an initiative launched last year, as a result of [...]
BINGHAM’S BUDDING ARTIST WINS FIRST PRIZE
Seven-year-old Bingham youngster, Aston, has won the E.ON ‘Get Energy Fit this Winter’ art competition. Aston attends the Bingham Robert Miles Infant School. As part of its commitment to getting people energy fit, by giving people tips on using energy more wisely, E.ON invited school children from around the country to paint or draw a [...]
SPRING FAIR IN RADCLIFFE
RAINS are a non-profit making charity set-up to raise funds to help enhance the overall experience for the children of Radcliffe-on-Trent Infant and Nursery schools. Once again the time has come for the committee to prepare for the biggest fundraiser of the year, which is the Spring Fair. This year the fair will be held [...]
LOCAL NEWS SCHOOL VISIT
The Clifton Local News completed its first school visit last month following an invite from Milford Primary School. You may remember the school from March’s paper when we announced they had won the award of Nottingham’s ‘Most Physically Active School’. Local News editor, Chris Ellis, attended the school to give a talk about the newspaper [...]
NEW NAME FOR DAYNCOURT SCHOOL
South Nottingham Academy will be the new name for Dayncourt School in Radcliffe-on-Trent from September, as its partnership with South Nottingham College is cemented. After a consultation period with staff, students and parents in January, school and college managers felt the name should have a clear link with South Nottingham College as the key partner. [...]