Primary schools

Leicester pupils lend a helping hand to earthquake appeal

Leicester pupils lend a helping hand to earthquake appeal

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A group of primary school children has raised more than £800 for people in Haiti. The class of 31 youngsters, from St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Knighton, organised the fund-raiser after hearing about January's devastating earthquake. The children , aged eight...

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Market Harborough pupils win road safety quiz

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Youngsters from a primary school won the area finals of an annual road safety quiz. Market Harborough Church of England Primary School came out on top...

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Smiles all round as school is praised for its happy pupils

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

A primary school has been praised for its happy and enthusiastic children. Glebelands Primary School, on the northern outskirts of Leicester, was...

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Leicester primary school pupils go on the air

Monday, March 08, 2010

Primary schoolchildren go on air this week. School children from Beaumont Lodge, Heatherbrook and Barley Croft, are setting up Cool fm on 95.1fm,...

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Joy as Leicester primary school gets all-clear

Pupils at the Queensmead Primary School, Braunstone, Leicester

Saturday, March 06, 2010

It has taken several years, but Ofsted has finally given one of Leicester's flagship schools a clean bill of health. Queensmead Primary opened as the...

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So You Think You Can Dance winner Charlie Bruce visits Melton school

So You Think You Can Dance winner Charlie Bruce visiting Sherard Primary School, Melton

Saturday, March 06, 2010

TV dance show winner Charlie Bruce took centre stage yesterday before 250 children at her former primary school. The 19-year-old So You Think You Can...

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Charlie delivering an inspirational message to Hinckley pupils

Charlie Bruce  with, from left, Rebecca Thorpe, Lauren Thornton, Thomas Beckwith  and  Joseph Langley

Saturday, March 06, 2010

Charlie Bruce also visited Hinckley's Battling Brook Primary School, where her aunt, Tina Bruce, is a teaching assistant. She will be trying to...

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Leicester head teacher determined to turn round fortunes of school

Friday, March 05, 2010

Education bosses say they will give improved support to a head teacher to prevent a Leicester school failing for the second time in two years. Fosse...

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Pupils produce fund-raising paper

Rowlatts Hill Primary pupils, back, from left, Naitik Odedra, 11, and Aaron Cork. Front, from left, Kimberley Katuruza, nine, Ashleigh Farr, nine, and Karandip Kaur, 10

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Primary school pupils have successfully produced their own newspaper to raise funds for the Haiti disaster appeal. Pupils in years five and six at...

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Sports skill plan

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Pupils from primary schools in Harborough district are being given tag rugby training by the police. The programme is aimed at teaching young people...

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