Beecroft Fair, July 4th

The Gordonbrock Summer Fair, July 5th

Summer Fair or Summer Fayre

Crash, Bang, Waller, What a Summer Fair

Governors wanted for Childeric Primary School

John Stevens writes:A few years ago, in a moment of public spiritedness I volunteered to Lewisham Council to be a governor at a local school. After a few months I was offered a place as a community governor at Childeric Primary School in New Cross (round the back of the New Cross Inn) – and ...

Myatt Garden Book Swap

Lucy writes:Next Tuesday (4th March) Myatt Garden Primary School PTA is organising a Book Week book swap. The only problem is that people tend to donate books they have outgrown and so we don't have enough books for the older junior kids!Do you have any books suitable for kids aged 8 - 12? If you ...

Haberdashers primary expansion secured

Haberdashers Askes school has secured permission to redevelop the Hatcham College site to create a two form entry primary "free" school with a capacity of 420 pupils. The proposal requires:"The demolition of three single storey buildings and the two storey Caretakers House and the construction of a part single, part two storey building for a new ...

School rules

Lewisham Council is consulting on how school places in the borough should be allocated - always a hideous question.Specifically, they want to know whether from 2015/16, the children of school staff should be given priority (to help attract good teachers) and whether the way of calculating the distance from your front door to school should ...

The CCC breakfast and after-school club

The Children's Creative Community Club is a new breakfast and after-school club operating from St Catherine's Church hall in Telegraph Hill. The team explains:The CCC Club will drop-off to and pick-up from John Stainer, Edmund Waller and Haberdashers Primary Schools. At launch, we will be able to look after children aged 5 and above.At launch, ...

Eubanks OBE

Congratulations to Cynthia Eubanks, Executive Headteacher, Grinling Gibbons and Lucas Vale Primary Schools, who picks up an OBE in the New Year Honours List for services to Education, crowning an excellent year for the area's schools. One hundred per cent of Grinling Gibbons students achieved Level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths in ...