Year 11 students at Court Fields Community School have smashed their Maths target and achieved an impressive 69.4% A*-C grades ahead of the June final exams. This is a 20% increase over the 2012 summer results. Head of Maths Mrs Etherington said “This outstanding result is down to the hard work of our students and …
Wellington School has announced the appointment of Henry Price as its next Head, replacing Martin Reader who moves to Cranleigh in September next year. Henry is currently the Senior Housemaster at Rugby School. After reading Classics at Oxford, Henry started his teaching career at Sydney Grammar School and then Sherborne. In his twelve years at Rugby, Henry has been Head of …
Two sisters from Wellington School won medals in a local fencing event. Nina (13) and Olivia Savage (11) both won Silver in their age groups in the recent Leon Paul Junior Series Fencing Competition held at Truro. This competition forms part of a series of events sponsored by Leon Paul and held throughout the UK. …
Lily James, a Yr 9 pupil at Court Fields Community school has been elected to the UK Youth Parliament as one of eight representatives from the county. Lily will be the Deputy Member for Taunton Deane and West Somerset.
With the permanent appointment of Miss Lindsay Gabriel as Head of Wellesley Park Primary School, staff, pupils and parents can feel reassured that evidence of change, apparent since January, can be maintained and accelerated. Having been appointed as Interim Head in January following the retirement of headteacher, Maureen Crofton, Miss Gabriel took up her permanent …
Kingsmead Year 7 students have spent a day learning about what life was like during the English Civil War in the 17th Century. Members of the Torrington 1646 group came in as characters from that time and spoke in detail about a number of aspects. Students found the details of the torture of witches and …
Wellesley Park Primary School is to have the highly-qualified Lindsay Gabriel as its new Headteacher. Miss Gabriel has been acting as Interim Head since the former Head, Maureen Crofton, announced her retirement in December, shortly after the last Ofsted inspection judged the school as ‘inadequate’ and introduced ‘Special Measures’. Wellesley Park governors appointed Miss Gabriel as …
Janet Lloyd is Chair of Governors at Court Fields. In this interview she explains what happened when Ofsted put the school in special measures and what is happening to pull Court Fields around. Q. Were you surprised at how bad the Ofsted report was? A. It was quite devastating. We didn’t think it would be …
Rockwell Green C of E Primary School was inspected by an Ofsted team last month and judged to be ‘GOOD’ in all areas. The report begins: ‘This is a good school’ and goes on to detail ‘the achievement of the pupils, the quality of the teaching, the behaviour and safety of the pupils and the …
To celebrate its centenary, the Wellington School Corps of Drums travels to Ypres this weekend for an historic and memorable experience. They will be taking the original bugle which played the first ever Last Post at the Menin Gate memorial The Gate lists the names of 55,000 British and Coommonwealth soldiers killed at Ypres who …
Samuel Smith is aiming to become the youngest person ever to attempt the gruelling cycle ride from London to Paris. He will be doing the ride to raise money for the charity that supports his younger disabled brother. Sebastian, 8, has a rare genetic condition – Rubenstein-Taybi Syndrome, which results in severe learning difficulties and …
