The Unity Schools Partnership is delighted to announce that The Bridge School in Ipswich will be joining the trust next year.
The Bridge School will be the second special school to be part of the trust, following in the footsteps of Churchill Special Free School in Haverhill, which was rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.
November has been quite a month.
Throughout the year, children and teachers have been thinking about the First World War and the 100th anniversary of the end of the war.
Many schools created impressive displays using poppies and marked the anniversary - both in school during the week preceding Remembrance Sunday and some joining in civic events in their community.
Some may have seen the recent social media-fuelled conversations about homework where Gary Lineker, Piers Morgan and many others waded in to discuss its merits for primary school aged pupils.
One of the more helpful recent developments in education has been to move a little away from responding to such debate with just personal opinions. We now have empirical evidence that backs up or contradicts such opinions.
A teacher who was born and bred in Haverhill has spoken of her pride and delight after being appointed to lead the town’s new sixth form.
Students have begun benefiting from the new-look, newly-named Haverhill Community Sixth Form which offers independent study and social areas and enhanced facilities.
At the helm of the new post-16 education offering is Daisy Hopkins who has been appointed as the new head of sixth form.
A new Newmarket headteacher has spoken of her delight after rising through the ranks to lead her primary school.
Melanie Moore joined the staff at Ditton Lodge Primary School in 2012, becoming deputy headteacher last year and now succeeding Dr Chris Marshall, who retired at the end of last term.