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Month: February 2017

Special Educational Needs children on their own

Redbridge Council has decided that children with SEN (special educational needs) no longer will receive assistance on their way to school. The decision has been made at the last council meeting in Ilford. Due to budget cuts only the ones that are considered most in need will be brought from door to door. All other …

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Aldborough Primary School collects Food

Children of Aldborough Primary School have taken the initiative. When children heard about their teachers collecting food for the Redbridge Food bank, they wanted to participate, too. As part of the Canadian Charity WE, the student leadership team started to ask their parents for food that they would not need at home. The food collected …

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Woodford Green Primary School situated on dangerous road

Since a mother has been injured in an accident on Sunset avenue after dropping off her daughter, the school has been fighting for more safety in front of their school gates. However, since the school itself is situated in the borough of Waltham Forest but the road is part of Redbridge, none of the authorities …

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Andy McNab stresses importance of literacy

Bravo To Zero author Andy McNab is criticizing the education system. While in earlier days teachers paid attention to conveying the joy in reading to students there is no time for doing so left nowadays. By standardizing the education system and focusing on “box ticking” the teachers simply get no chance to stress the importance …

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Ash to Art – Burnt parts of Glasgow School of Arts revived

In 2014 the Glasgow School of Arts library burnt down. “Ash to Art” is a project aiming at raising money for the renovation of the Mackintosh library. Multiple famous artists, amongst which are Sir Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Simon Starling, were sent burnt parts from the library which they were instructed to use to create new …

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Redbridge schools score high in new progress 8 GCSE league tables

The newly introduced progress 8 GCSE league table looks at the best 8 grades in GCSE across the country. Redbridge schools were ranked 10th out of 150 schools across the UK. In particular, Woodford County High School scored 0.73 with 99% of pupils getting at least 5 A*s. The results can indeed be indicatory for the …

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Rushcroft Foundation school lowest in Waltham Forest

After Rushcroft Foundation school was ranked lowest in the borough, the headmaster Mark Morrall is defending the school. The governmental ranking only takes GCSE results into account which have been low due to the school taking in oversea refugees.  Hence, Mister Morrall stresses that some of the children joined the school half way through the …

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