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Primary Schools in Balham - Application Deadline Looms

By aloquifique at 10:24 on 10/01/12

Balham parents have until this Sunday (January 15 2012) to submit their application for primary school places in the Wandsworth Council area for a September start. To be eligible for a reception class place in September 2012, children must have been born between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008. Parents can apply online at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/admissions or by completing the application form provided in the council's...
Balham Birds - Big Schools' Bird Watch January 16-30 January 2012

By aloquifique at 12:25 on 09/01/12

The RSPB's Big Schools' Bird Watch runs from 16 to 30 January 2012. Is your family's primary school in Balham taking part? All your school needs to do is register on the website and then spend one hour watching the birds in the school grounds on any chosen day. Why not take some photos for the Balham People photo galleries? We'd love to see them! photo courtesy Lynne Featherstone via Flickr http://www.flickr.com...
Teachers Urged not to strike on Wednesday 30 November

By aloquifique at 21:47 on 21/11/11

Headteachers and teachers at schools across Wandsworth are being urged not to go on strike on Wednesday, November 30. Members of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) - along with other unions representing teachers - have voted in favour of strike action that day, which is likely to cause widespread local school closures. Wandsworth Council's cabinet member for education and children's services, Councillor Kathy Tracey,...
Olympic Tickets Offered to Wandsworth Schools

By aloquifique at 17:56 on 02/11/11

Tickets to next year's Olympic Games are being offered to every Wandsworth school that becomes a member of a special London 2012 community network. The Get Set network offers schoolchildren the chance to see the world's greatest athletes and sports stars in action when the capital hosts the Games in 2012. Wandsworth Council is reminding any borough school interested in receiving an allocation of tickets that it...
Kids win free entry to airport open day

By Open_Day at 19:40 on 05/08/11

Kids' recycled planes win tickets to airport open day The pupils of Oaklands Primary School in Biggin Hill have been hard at work turning recycled materials into model aeroplanes in order to win Family Tickets to Biggin Hill Airport Family Open Day on September 10th. They have been drawing, writing, cutting and sticking, colouring-in and their teachers have been judges, awarding one family in every class a family ticket to the...

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New Free School for Tooting - here we go again!

By proposedmcs

Just to remind parents that the Michaela Community School is also holding two Parent Information...

By aloquifique at 18:22 on 01/12/11

Councillors are welcoming plans for a new free school in Tooting that promises to give its pupils a traditional "public school style education" - with a big focus on academic achievement and high standards of discipline. The Michaela Community School is due to open next September and will have as its head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh, who shot to national prominence last year when she spoke out about failings in the modern...
A nail in the coffin for the Battersea Free School protesters?

By aloquifique

Not wanting to be facetious but Wandsworth are looking for local people to sit on the borough's...

By aloquifique at 17:56 on 17/01/11

Local parents are a step closer to creating a new state secondary school in south Battersea after the council exchanged contracts to buy the former Bolingbroke Hospital. The council intends to lease the building to a group of local parents so they can create a new free school on the site. The school will be open to local children of all abilities and from all backgrounds. Council leader Edward Lister said: "The new Bolingbroke...
Sadiq Khan - canvassing opinions on Wandsworth 'Free School'

By exteacher

Although it is outside the Balham area, it is worth noting that, while the Council have...

By aloquifique at 14:44 on 14/01/11

Locally I've been contacted by dozens of residents who are dismayed at Wandsworth council's plans to spend £13 million of our money on a new school on the old Bolingbroke Hospital site, when there are places available at existing schools in Wandsworth, all of which are in desperate need of investment and improvements. Many feel that the new school (which is being built as part of the government's 'free school' programme) will be...
Is it a choice of Healthcare over Education?

By JonatNSC

Broadwater is I think a 2FE school - are most of the 60 odd parents leaving Year 6 unhappy with the...

By aloquifique at 12:51 on 20/10/10

Jon De Maria, spokesperson for The Neighbourhood School Campaign is lobbying (and some considerable way down the line) for the old Bolingbroke Hospital to become a new, 900 pupil Free School, including a sixth form. Jon is pleading for volunteers to help the campaign by asking for them to spare an hour this weekend to hand out leaflets on Northcote Road. He is keen to get the community to oppose a planning application already submitted...
Wandsworth GCSE results continue to improve

By aloquifique

Thanks for that resounding support Nicola. Do you know what the future will be for JP II, now St...

By aloquifique at 19:26 on 25/08/10

Students across Wandsworth are celebrating as the borough's GCSE results improved again this year to reach a new record high. Provisional results show that the proportion of students achieving five or more A* - C grades including the core subjects of English and Maths has increased by six percentage points to reach 58.7 per cent. Some schools made particularly strong progress including John Paul II and Battersea Park where the...