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SCHOOLKIDS have been helping to clean-up the banks of Old Father Thames today. The ‘mudlarks’ were busy along the north foreshore in East London picking up rubbish to help save wildlife from the dangers of plastic shopping bags discarded in the river. They were joined by TV vet Emma Milne at one of the most littered parts of the tidal flow, the sharp U-bend that snakes round the Isle of Dogs... » MORE
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SCREAMS of joy filled the corridors at Oaklands Secondary School on Thursday (August 21) as pupils ripped open their envelopes to find out their GCSE results. Bethnal Green’s science-specialist school had its best results yet with a 100 per cent passes and 74 per cent getting A* to C grades. More than a quarter of the 113 pupils received A* and A with Chemistry, Physics and Biology showing the highest marks... » MORE
ONE of the best A-Level results in East London has been the huge Tower Hamlets College in Poplar. The campus with its 2,000 sixthformers had 96 per cent overall passes with 57 per cent getting A to C grades. We look at what’s in store for six bright sparks after they opened their envelopes on Thursday—and still want to hear from others... » MORE
PUPILS from Tower Hamlets schools have been preparing for national Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 with special projects to mark the genocides of the 20th century. This special Advertiser Education report looks at what they are learning from adults who lived through 'ethnic cleansing' in war.... » MORE
SPORTS sessions have been set up for the kids living in the Isle of Dogs by Leyton Orient football bosses. Professional coaches from the top club are running sessions in soccer and basketball at St Andrew’s youth centre at George Green’s Secondary School, at Cubitt Town youth centre and at Poplar’s Aspen Way ball cage... » MORE
A PROGRAMME to get schoolkids in East London more involved in the building of the 2012 Olympics going up on their doorstep has been set up by the authority responsible for delivering the Games. A series of workshops over the next six months has just begun where 20 selected Year-6 pupils from eight primary schools in the ‘host’ boroughs have been nominated to take part in the programme... » MORE
JUST when you thought it was safe to go back into the public library—Jaws appears! Museum experts came to the Isle of Dogs with a collection of animal bones and teeth. But it wasn’t enough to scare the likes of six-year-old Hal Lonsdale who turned up for the summer activity... » MORE
ARCHAEOLOGY experts have unearthed the remains of what is believed to be London’s earliest playhouse and Shakespeare’s first theatre. The discoveries were made during excavations at Shoreditch, where The Bard and contemporaries like James Burbage would hang out in Elizabethan London. The site is being prepared for a new theatre for Tower Theatre Company. To quote the Bard, “The wheel hath come full circle.”... » MORE
DANCE performances by kids from London’s deprived East End on the international stage are being used to help tackle gambling problems among deprived children in one of China’s big cities. Youngsters from Tower Hamlets schools’ dance and gymnastics club have been performing in the 11th Macau International Youth Dance Festival. Macau's education authority asked for an interview with the club’s coach and choreographers for a TV documentary to encourage Macau’s own youngsters to take up dance to avoid gambling, which is a major problem in the former Portuguese colony... » MORE
A SERIES of ‘Farming Fit’ days is being held on an urban farm to get kids in London’s deprived East End healthy and stop them being bullied in school. George the donkey, Bella the lamb and friends are getting ready next month to help children lose weight and get fit at Stepping Stones city farm in Stepney during the school holidays... » MORE
SCHOOLKIDS from the five 2012 London Olympics ‘host’ boroughs have been 'Welcoming the World'. They’ve been out taking snaps of the places they know to send to schoolchildren around the globe. More than 450 youngsters aged eight to 15 took part in the Welcoming the World education programme exploring the cultural landscapes where they live... » MORE
BORIS Johnson presented two East End schools with environmental awards for projects learning how litter, graffiti and noise can have a negative impact on the environment. The London Mayor c0ngratulated the pupils from St Agnes Primary in Poplar and Ben Jonson Primary in Stepney at the London Schools Environment awards at City Hall on July 10... » MORE
A VOLUNTARY media centre which has given 25,000 schoolchildren in East London an insight into journalism as a career since it began is now expanding due to demand from youngsters. The Newspaper Education Trust has this week acquired a bigger space at Millwall’s huge West Ferry printworks on the Isle of Dogs to cope with more youngsters for its popular ‘make a newspaper’ training programme... » MORE
THE gauntlet was thrown down when two neighbouring East London schools fought a battle of words to find a Junior Scrabble champion. But it was two 10-year-olds from Shapla Primary in Whitechapel, Muminul Islam and Naeem Hussain, who won through to the final on June 18. Muminul was declared winner—by a single point... » MORE
A NEW sixth form college could open its doors for its first students next year to meet the demand for education for the over 16s in East London. Morpeth and Oaklands schools in Bethnal Green and Swanlea in Whitechapel are joining together to open the campus at Bethnal Green’s Wessex centre, with the first students starting in September, 2009, if it gets the go-ahead... » MORE
A NEW children’s centre has opened to give families better access to local authority services in an isolated corner of London’s East End. Town Hall bosses at Tower Hamlets are turned the official opening into a ‘fun day’ at Wapping children’s centre.... » MORE
SCHOOLGIRL Tara Ifill has won a top award for her pioneering idea fore keeping London kids off the streets and on the ‘straight and narrow.’ The 14-year-old from Bermondsey in south-east London was given an award by GMTV presenter Ben Shephard on May 14 for her Smile with Style scheme... » MORE
THOUSANDS of primary school children in East London are getting a new health education programme on the risks of drugs, alcohol and smoking. The programme also includes parents being shown how they can communicate the warnings to their younbgsters without alianating them... » MORE
YOUNGSTERS got an exotic choice of food when primary schools served a Spanish lunch. They tucked into paella, Spanish fish and omelettes last week as part of Tower Hamlets Council's programme to 'spice up' school dinners with more interesting dishes... » MORE
By Gemma Collins EDUCATION in London s deprived East End is set for a revolutionary overhaul with the country s first ever sixthform campus hub that will allow pupils to study different subjects at different schools. The Hub is a network that p... » MORE
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