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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Grinling Gibbons’ table-topping results wiped out after “maladministration”

Feb

2015

In November, BC reported that Deptford primary school Grinling Gibbons had achieved the best results in the country, according to one respected league table. At the time, one reader questioned how reliable the results were. Now, The Standard reports that the school has had its results wiped out by the Department for Education:After an inspection, ...

Beecroft jumble, February 7th

Jan

2015

The Secret Magdalen

Dec

2014

If you've been thinking about pretending to be religious to get your kids into a selective school, now's the time. Robert writes:St.Mary Magdalen's RC Primary - in the heart of Brockley (Howson Road) - is today ranked 6th within a national comparator group of 125 schools in today's DfE performance tables - reflecting its sustained ...

Grinling Gibbons is country’s top state primary

Nov

2014

Deptford's Grinling Gibbons Primary School has been declared the country's top-performing state primary in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power league table. As the Daily Mail notes, more than half the pupils receive free school meals and the majority speak English as a second language. An amazing achievement.Thrilled that the top performing state primary in ...

NUT: Prendergasts among six Lewisham schools due to become Academies

Nov

2014

East London Lines reports that six Lewisham schools will be converted to Academies in the near future, including the Prendergast Hilly Fields and Ladywell Fields schools. Ignoring the fact that the headline characterises this as a "threat" and "privatisation", the article says:Six more schools in Lewisham are due to be turned into academies, a meeting of ...

Introducing Prendergast Primary School

Oct

2014

Prendergast Primary School is a new school on the Ladywell / Crofton Park border. Head of School, Viv Nicholls, writes:We opened to our two new Reception classes in September, and have been extremely pleased at how quickly all our children have settled. We received a visit from Ofsted inspectors two weeks into the new term! They ...

Prendergast Vale earns Ofsted upgrade

Oct

2014

Congratulations to Prendergast Vale College, the Lewisham school that serves pupils aged 3-18. Its rapid improvement has now been recognised by Ofsted.In its new Ofsted report, Prendergast Vale has earned a "Good" status, having been told previously that it required improvement.The report notes that: "Pupils achieve well. They are making better and faster progress than they were ...

St Thomas doubts value of Superkids

Oct

2014

I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended. - 13, words to ThomasSuperkids, the swimming club that until recently operated out of St Thomas the Apostle school in Nunhead, has been told to find another swimming pool. Brockley parent Helen has asked us ...

Myatt Garden Table Top Sale, October 12th

Sep

2014

Vote Stillness

Jul

2014

Stillness Infant School (Brockley Rise) has been shortlisted for the HS Scarecrow competition at the Hampton Court Flower Show for the third year running. Dianne writes:"This is a huge achievement as the competition is open to schools across southeast England, and they are one of only two London schools chosen. I believe, though don't know the ...