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Glowing report for impressive school
Government inspectors have given a Staffordshire school the thumbs up in their latest inspection. Great Wyrley Performing Arts High School recently hosted Ofsted inspectors who said the school had an “impressive” performance.
Jobless staff could cost council £500k
More than 20 teachers could be left jobless after the closure of a doomed Black Country school – costing tax-payers almost £500,000 in redundancy payments.
Schools plan ‘is huge challenge’
Wolverhampton has a “big job” on its hands in raising standards in education, the boss of a multi-billion pound programme admitted today.
Pledge on schools shake-up
Parents, teachers and children in Dudley have been promised a “fair, frank and vigorous” consultation into £200 million plans for a shake-up of secondary schools in the borough.
Caves – it’s a mystery for Toyah
There isn’t much that shocks singer and presenter Toyah Willcox.
School tees off with £6k award
Budding young golfers at an West Midland school are now able to tee off on their very own golf course. Children at Cooper and Jordan Primary in Aldridge have created their own nine hole course after being awarded £6,000 from the lottery.
£8.5m plan for learning village
A new “learning village” costing £8.5 million is planned for pupils with special needs in Dudley which the council say will be the first of its kind in the borough.
Community unites for school
Schoolchildren who feared their Christmas fair would have to be cancelled after arsonists torched all of the prizes and bric-a-brac are smiling again after the community united to donate replacements.
School survey welcomed
The Diocese of Lichfield has welcomed a new survey which reveals that a majority of non-Christians who were surveyed do not see church schools as divisive.
Tories urge schools mobile ban
Schools should be ordered to outlaw mobile phones from classrooms, the Conservatives said today. Headteachers in the West Midlands are currently allowed to make up their own policy on pupils carrying mobile phones.
‘Sick’ school gets clean bill
Experts have now given a clean bill of health to a revamped Black Country school which was at at the centre of a “sick building” storm.
Fears over school bid
Plans to build a school in a village near Kidderminster could be rejected – a move which it is feared will sound the “death knell” for the area.
School has own golf course
A Black Country primary school has built its own golf course.
Attack on ‘hostile’ charity chiefs
The head of Wolverhampton Grammar School has accused the Charity Commission of being hostile and “sabre-rattling” towards independent schools with charitable status.
School is highly sought after
Thomas Telford School is one of the most sought after in the country, new figures show today. The school, in Telford, takes a large number of pupils from Wolverhampton each year.
Talks held on £6m school
Brainstorming has been taking place in a Staffordshire village to generate ideas of how the new school should look.
Academy to plug skills gap
One of Cannock’s leading engineering companies is plugging the skills gap by setting up its own £700,000 training academy to develop the engineers of the future.
Uni’s tops for value
After taking into account the price of beer, cigarettes and Pot Noodles, Wolverhampton has come up trumps in a league table of student living costs.
Schools minister in city
Jim Knight, Minister for School and Learners paid a visit to Smestow School in Wolverhampton.
Merger off for schools
Plans to merge two Stourport schools have been rejected by the Government, putting teaching jobs at risk.
£300m revamp for schools
The future of 14 Wolverhampton schools has been revealed as part of a major £300 million transformation of the city’s education system.
Schools’ food successes
Catering bosses in Staffordshire are delighted after several school kitchens and dining areas were recognised for their pioneering design in a new government publication.
Anger over merger bid
Controversial plans to merge three Stourport schools would be “a recipe for disaster” and lead to poorer exam results, parents fear.
Schools sitting on £22m
Schools in a Black Country borough are saving almost £22 million for a “rainy day” while exam results in the borough still fall below the national average.
Term kicks off with awards
Pupils at five schools across Cannock, Lichfield and Burntwood are celebrating after getting off to a healthy start this term.
Parents fight on to save school
Concerned parents who have vowed to save a Wolverhampton primary school threatened with closure are to step up their campaign in the run-up to a crunch meeting over its future.
Schools revamp gets go-ahead
Half of all the primary schools in a Black Country borough are to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch or refurbished now cash has been secured to replace crumbling classrooms.
Arson fear as school blazes
A fire which caused part of a West Midlands secondary school to collapse is being treated as suspected arson. Up to 60 per cent of the Sidney Springer School in Coventry was damaged by the blaze.
School sites sell-off bid
Developers may snap up six Walsall schools and build houses on the land if the Government gives the go-ahead to sell them on the open market.
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