Education

A Biggleswade school has seen some major changes over the summer.

Everton Heath Primary School has become a new Academy and to joined The Cam Academy Trust.

A former Sandy teacher who launched racist rant against Jews on Facebook has been banned from the country’s classrooms indefinitely.

With the landscape of the newly reformed GCSE grades a very hot national topic, Roz Hodges, Interim Headteacher at Stratton Upper School said she was delighted that their hard working students have been richly rewarded with some very impressive outcomes.

GCSE students in Chronicle country have done themselves proud as the latest results are released.

Celebrations at Stratton Upper School were well deserved again this year, as A Level results held up against last year’s - which were the best ever in the school’s history and placed the school in the top 15% for progress in the country.

Staff and students are once again celebrating outstanding A Level results at Bedford Modern School with a third of all students obtaining

Students, parents and staff at Samuel Whitbread Academy are celebrating another set of fantastic A Level results with even further improvements on last year’s best ever results.

The future’s bright, the future’s two-tier primary and secondary education.

An Everton school is fighting back after it claims Central Beds Council tried to offload its liabilities over pension arrears.

Humanitarian aid workers and trainers from RedR UK, joined students from Cranfield University’s MSc course in Water & Sanitation for Development, on a visit to Silsoe quarry.

The end of any school year is met with relief at the completion of another successful term, excitement at the prospect of the forthcoming holiday and more than a little sadness as the time has come to bid farewell to the pupils who are leaving to continue their education elsewhere.

A Year 10 student with Asperger’s has won the John Bunyan Museum Diary Writing Competition.

Work has officially completed on the second phase of a £12.2million expansion programme to Etonbury Academy.

There’s the chance for the kids to make mischief at this year’s Summer Reading Challenge.

A delegation of housing professionals from Hong Kong visited Shefford as part of a fact-finding trip to find out more about housing in this country.

A year 10 student from Shefford who has asperger’s has won a prize in a writing competition.

A wrangle over the completion of a school expansion project in Central Bedfordshire could be heading for the High Court.

Leadership is vital for a primary and secondary school system to become uniform across Central Bedfordshire, it’s been claimed.