Weather
Education | Features | Homepage - Brentwood Weekly News
Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting BWNNEWS to 80360 or email us »
Pupils get creative
10:10pm Tuesday 25th May 2010
GIVING children a chance to shine is the aim of a new exhibition at the Towngate Theatre, in Basildon.
It’s never too late
9:00pm Tuesday 25th May 2010
RECEPTION, infant, junior and secondary school, college and then maybe even university.
Nature’s way to deal with troubled youths
2:00am Thursday 25th March 2010
GETTING troubled youngsters away from their destructive environments and into the wilds of nature has a positive impact on their lives, according to research.
Essex academy schools: Are they working?
1:00am Wednesday 24th February 2010
THE growth of school academies has been a hallmark of the New Labour years and there are now five in Essex. How effective are they?
Southend teachers' £200k bill for extra back pay
12:27pm Tuesday 23rd February 2010
TAXPAYERS are to foot a £200,000 bill to pay teachers claiming money they are owed from Southend Council as a result of an equal pay scheme.
Could you be a foster parent?
1:00am Saturday 9th January 2010
A rallying call has gone out for Essex residents to come forward and help address the county’s shortage of foster families.
New children’s centre planned for former school caretaker’s accommodation in Hullbridge
9:20am Friday 25th December 2009
A NEW children’s centre is planned for a primary school in Hullbridge.
Plaudits all round as Southend school is praised
6:00am Friday 25th December 2009
TEACHERS and pupils have been praised for their efforts in making improvements in standards at a Southend secondary school.
South Essex kids can now get swine flu jab
6:00am Monday 21st December 2009
Swine flu jabs for the under fives in south Essex are to finally be rolled out across south Essex after a deal was reached with local GPs.
Canvey will get its college, vows County Hall's education chief
7:30pm Friday 6th November 2009
THE county’s education chief today promised Canvey will get a new college.
