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Sparing teens’ blushes

No-nonsense message - the play’s young actors draws teenage audiences into the play

9:30pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

SEX education is a phrase that strikes dread into the hearts of parents and teenagers alike.

Chance for children to let talents shine

Treading the boards - Friars Primary School pupils rehearse

9:20pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

EVERY youngster has a talent - and now is their chance to let it shine.

Children discover the origin of food in carvery

Knives at the ready - the carvery’s head chef Mitchell Wooding with teacher Amanda Pottle and the Prince Avenue Primary School pupils

9:00pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

A CLASS of budding Jamie Olivers exchanged school blazers for chef’s hats and aprons when they took a behind-the-scenes peek at Southend’s Toby Carvery.

Second chance has led me to USA study

Mark Baptist - overcame poor GCSEs with a vocational course

9:00pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

SCHOOL isn’t for everyone, but a lack of learning doesn’t have to end your dreams, as Mark Baptist is proving.

Junior Schools Music Festival

Some of the children who have been performing

6:10pm Thursday 11th June 2009

SCHOOLCHILDREN have been singing their hearts out to packed houses at the Cliffs Pavilion.

Village school WLTM a new head

Ridgewell Primary School headteacher Andy Richbell and school governor Sarah Howard, with pupils Graham Sawyer and Rhianon Howard and the advert they placed in the Times for a new headteacher

6:00pm Tuesday 9th June 2009

POPULAR, attractive school seeks enthusiastic and happy headteacher for fun and friendship – GSOH required.

County's skill learners set to be honoured

Ray Stubbs

10:00pm Tuesday 26th May 2009

THEY say school days are the best days of your life, but these learners have proved lessons don’t have to end with the school bell as the race hots up to find this year’s winners of the Big Skill Awards in Essex.

Pupils join masters in National Gallery

Pupils from Thorpe Greenways Infant School with some of their paintings behind them

10:00pm Tuesday 26th May 2009

VAN Gogh, Monet, Michelangelo and Rembrandt – just some of the famous artists whose work adorns the walls of the National Gallery.

Youngsters pen poems to stop people littering

Chloe Cobbold, Rhiannon Spinks and Jasmine Mia Thorne with Mark Reeder, from Argos, Angela Smith MP, headteacher Terry Flitman and Donna Whitbread, from Argos

10:00pm Tuesday 26th May 2009

PUPILS at Wickford County Junior school have won awards for their poems encouraging others not to drop rubbish.

Tutors can make a real difference

Tutor David Barrett with Catherine Jacomb, 14, and Jenny Barrett, 16, learning maths

10:30pm Tuesday 28th April 2009

WITH rising pressure and expectations parents often feel the need to look outside of school to help educate their children.


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