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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

New heads for local schools

Apr

2016

There are a lot of changes taking place at the top of local schools at the moment, with many Lewisham secondary and primary schools searching for new head-teachers.Prendergast Vale have been quick to find a new Head, with Duncan Kamya recently recruited while local Catholic primary St Mary Magdalene has announced this week that its ...

John Roan Resists Meeting

Apr

2016

Last November staff at The John Roan school in Greenwich took strike action against plans to turn the school into an Academy. While 'academisation' (horrible word) was put on hold, it is now back on the agenda nationally with the Government threatening to make every school an Academy whether they want to or not, as well as ...

Brockley school tops Lewisham primary table

Dec

2015

The Evening Standard has published a league table of London primary schools, based on the performance of 11-year-olds in the National Curriculum tests earlier this year.In Lewisham, Greater Brockley schools perform strongly, with St Mary Magdalen Catholic School on Howson Road top of the league for the whole borough. Haberdashers Askes Hatcham, Gordonbrock and Beecroft ...

Parents oppose Edmund Waller expansion as wrong solution to Primary places crisis

Oct

2015

As previously reported, the Borough of Lewisham is suffering from a severe shortage of Primary School places, the result of a local baby boom, a growing population and the area's increasing popularity with young families.As part of its belated response to the problem, Lewisham Council has proposed to double the size of Edmund Waller Primary ...

Myatt Garden Winter Craft Market, November 7

Oct

2015

Myatt Garden Primary School (Rokeby Road) is launching a new winter craft market to raise funds. There is already a wide variety of sellers lined up and you can browse and shop between 12-4pm on November 7th.

Solar for schools share offer launches

Oct

2015

The SE London Community Energy Share Offer is now open, giving you the chance to invest in a £250,000 solar energy project, which aims to return 4% per annum to investors for 20 years while saving local schools money on their electricity bills. It's a canny way of cashing in on Feed In Tariffs before ...

Prendergast Primary delayed again

Aug

2015

Prendergast Primary School won’t be finished for the start of term. Now over a year late. @brockleycentral pic.twitter.com/nauEQ2mIVE— Kenny Tinsel (@KennyTinsel) August 27, 2015Luckily, Lewisham has loads of primary school places to spare! Eh? Oh.

London schools outperform other English cities

Aug

2015

Anyone who's brought up kids in London will have had the lecture at least once: Someone holding forth about how awful it must be to grow up in the capital - that failure to move out when your kids hit primary school is tantamount to child abuse.Top of the list of London's imagined failings, neck-and-neck ...

Beecroft Summer Fair 2015

Jul

2015

Alice’s Adventures in Myatt Garden

Jun

2015

The Mad Hatter: Would you like some wine?Alice: Yes.The Mad Hatter: We haven't any and you're too young.- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll