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TOWN Hall education chiefs have got the green light to hand over a ‘failing’ school in London’s deprived East End to a university trust. The ruling Labour cabinet at Tower Hamlets voted in favour of plans to put in hand an ‘educational partner’ in charge of St Paul’s Way Community School in Bow Common... » MORE
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KIDS are looking forward next term to swapping their stuffy classroom for the great outdoors. Pupils from Old Ford Primary are just a few blocks from East London’s famous Victoria Park. So their teachers think it’s the ideal place for some of their lessons, especially PE (pictured) and their wildlife subject... » MORE
YOUNGSTERS celebrated the fruits of their labours for the school garden they’ve tended for two years by opening it to the public. Pupils at St Paul’s Primary began sprucing up their garden and growing their own vegetables after getting a Lottery grant in 2007... » MORE
MEET the ‘top young entrepreneurs’ of tomorrow from London’s East End. They may still be at school, but these pupils from Whitechapel’s Swanley Secondary have won ‘Best Company’ title in their area of East in the ‘Young Enterprise London’ awards... » MORE
THE ‘battle of the bulge’ is under way to get kids fit again in London’s East End. Only one-in-50 pupils ride to school in Tower Hamlets, a survey has found, showing a-quarter of all11 to 16 year-olds are clinically obese... » MORE
SCHOOLGIRLS from London’s East End bowled out their competitors on Saturday to qualify for the finals of the schools’ cricket contest. A squad drawn from three Tower Hamlets secondary schools beat teams from neighbouring Newham and eight other London boroughs to qualify for the Balfour Beatty Youth Games Cricket Cup finals... » MORE
PUPILS from two schools in London’s East End have performed a play about immigration as part of a ‘community of young theatre makers.’ Teenagers from Whitechapel’s Swanlea Secondary joined 11-year-olds from nearby Thomas Buxton Junior for workshops with professional artists from the Half Moon theatre company including a dancer, musician and writer... » MORE
CHILDREN aged 10 and 11 are to get their own art studio to run themselves at their school in London’s East End. A prefab is going ahead in the gardens at Old Ford Primary after the school learned this week it has scooped a £10,000 windfall from the Big Lottery... » MORE
PUPILS from Whitechapel’s Swanlea Secondary have spent a day in Cambridge learning about student life at one of the world’s leading universities. The 16 youngsters from East London were identified as ‘gifted and talented’—the top five to 10 per cent of pupils in their school... » MORE
YOUNGSTERS pitching their skills to a tough panel of City business leaders have been praised—for deviating from their planned Powerpoint presentation and ad-libbing. Around 60 youngsters took to the stage at a conference organised by professional investment bankers to promote the benefits of the Diploma in IT, launched earlier this year... » MORE
MANY schools in East London have missed out on the Ordnance Survey’s offer of free maps for every child in Year 7. The agency’s ‘Free Maps for 11-year-olds’ project making OS Explorer maps available to children all over Britain got off to a poor start in East London because many Tower Hamlets schools didn’t make their order in time... » MORE
CHUBBY kids on bikes cycled their way to fitness with a programme aimed at tackling child obesity in London’s East End. The 28 youngsters aged 11 to 16 rode into Mile End Park for a programme to help them get fit and lose weight... » MORE
A DISABLED teenage swimmer hoping to get a medal for Britain in the 2012 Olympic Paraplegic Games joined other disabled youngsters on the athletics track for charity. Thomas Brown was helping them raise cash for the BBC’s Children in Need with a sponsored walk, run or push around the track at Mile End stadium in East London before the big drive on TV... » MORE
LLOYD’s the world-famous insurance market is using poetic license to help kids in London’s East End enjoy experimenting with language and explore subjects in new ways. The prestigious insurance brokerage exchange in the financial City district has been working with the Poet in the City charity to run poetry workshops in three schools in neighbouring Tower Hamlets where 150 children have attended the day-long sessions... » 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
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
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
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
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