Education

Preparing to put on a musical at The Apex is a big event, especially when you are the first school in Suffolk to be licensed to put on Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s School of Rock.

Newmarket’s All Saints’ Primary School is one of eight local schools involved in the Front Runner programme run by the town’s National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at Palace House. Pupils in Years 2, 4 and 6 have worked over six sessions with performance poet, Justin Coe, in activities which are aimed developing writing skills and understanding of text. The children have even taken inspiration from the horses stabled in the Rothschild Yard.

A primary school in Great Cornard has been given a positive review by inspectors, following concerns over exam results last year.

Sixteen boys from King Edward VI School at Bury St Edmunds took part in a boys’ day of dance alongside professional dancer Tom Hobden, of Dance East.

Culford Prep School matron, Odette Tattersall, will be running the London Marathon in April in aid of the charity, Combat Stress.

Bury St Edmunds Busy Bees had a special visitor for the start of its themed enrolment week on Monday.

A Haverhill teacher has been given a close-up view of the American education system after a scholarship in Nevada.

Year 9 students from Castle Manor Academy have dedicated a whole day of school to France and their love of chocolate.

The deadline is fast approaching to apply for a Suffolk primary school place for the 2017/2018 school year.

Pupils at a Haverhill school have had their artwork exhibited at the town’s Cineworld after the two struck up a brand new arrangement.

As the sun rose on Monday morning, so too did the excitement of pupils and staff of Bury St Edmunds’ Sybil Andrews Academy.

Carole Beedham, head of Brookes Cambridge Independent School, near Risby, says she is delighted after the school’s Early Years provision achieved an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted report.

Busy pupils from Culford School have been getting their teeth into a couple of ventures across the seas – one of which will provide life-changing support to a library in Malawi.

Howard Lay – the chief executive of Samuel Ward Academy Trust – has announced plans to retire from the role.

An exceptional school year by Mildenhall College Academy was celebrated at their annual awards evening.

Suffolk’s new graduate intern teachers are now a month in to the new school term.

A special day dedicated to gradparents was enjoyed by young children at South Lee School on Monday.

Pupils at Campton Lower school are now enjoying healthy, hot meals cooked on the school premises.

The Iceni Academy at Methwold are celebrating improved GCSE results this year.

Castle Manor Academy’s Sixth Form students are celebrating today as they collect an excellent set of A-level results.