Schools/colleges

IT IS the time of year which sets parents nerves jangling, with the seemingly crucial decision to make of choosing a Secondary School for their children. Reporter DAN COOMBS spoke to Robert Lobatto, headteacher at Barnhill Community High School, in Yeading Lane, Hayes, about the process.

THE Hillingdon Foodbank made their first visit to a school this week and are making a second tomorrow- (Wednesday)

AN ACADEMY is spending thousands of pounds in defending its decision to permanently exclude one of its pupils.

Faysal Sulaiman, 16, of Warwick Road, West Drayton, was excluded from Stockley Academy last October, after getting into a fight with a fellow pupil, but his father is bringing proceedings for an appeal to a judicial review of the Academy's decision.

SPEEDY pupils at Stockley Academy emerged victorious from a nail-bitingly close athletics competition.

The Academy in Park View Road, Yiewsley, hosted the latest round of the Borough Schools Indoor Athletics Competition last Wednesday (11/2), winning in the end by the narrowest of margins.

The competition was for year seven pupils, and events included relays, individual sprint and long distance running, long jump, triple jump and high jump.

Louise Du Plessis, sports teacher at Stockley Academy, said: "It went really well the children gave it their all, it was very competitive, and really tense."

The Stockley Academy team finished on 466 points, ahead of Vyners School pupils on 464, Uxbridge High on 463 and Harlington on 462.

The team now go through to the next round where they will compete against winners from elsewhere in the borough.

St Catherine RC Primary School holds its annual summer fayre on Sunday, July 7 and you could win £10,000.

Following on from last year's 'win a mini' where you could win a brand new car, a first for a school in the borough, this year the school in Money Lane, West Drayton, has come up with its own answer to the credit crunch

Go along to the fayre between 12-3pm and 'crack the safe' to win £10,000.