Schools/colleges

WHAT better way to spend your wedding anniversary than doing something to help others?

LEARNING how to crack and cook an egg is one of the practical cooking skills pupils have been learning over the past week.

Rabbs Farm Primary School, in Gordon Road, Yiewsley, got a mobile kitchen set up in its assembly hall, thanks to a grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation, a charity which gives money to artistic and community causes.

Barbara Neville, deputy headteacher, said: "The children have made muffins, pizza, flatbread and rice, and the idea is they will be able to take these skills and show them off at home."

PROPOSALS to create a teaching facility specifically for students in the country on foreign Visas has been refused by Hillingdon Council.

The centre would have been at Stockley Park, in a vacant office block.

It would have been for foreign students who lived overseas and not in the local area.

Councillors refused the plans on the basis there was no local demand for the education centre, and that the traffic management plan was inadequate.

PRIMARY schools are bursting at the seams - and face further expansion - with West Drayton the latest crisis point.

The borough has been dealt a double blow by the news that a schools adjudicator could overturn Hillingdon Council's decision to expand Whitehall Junior and Infants' School, in Uxbridge.

Sarah Daniels, assistant headteacher at Cherry Lane Primary School, in Sipson Road, West Drayton, has issued a warning.

She said: "The local authority need to pull their finger out or there won't be enough places for their children.

THE parents of a five-year-old girl have withdrawn her from school branding it 'unsafe' after she was left unsupervised as her class went into assembly.

Jamie Rees was 'forgotten' by her teacher at Colham Manor School, in Violet Avenue, Yiewsley, and left alone for over an hour, although the school claim it was more like 20 minutes.

Her parents only discovered what happened when Jamie came home in tears, and despite receiving an apology from the school, they have decided to withdraw her from the school.

CATERING staff at a West Drayton school proved they could stand the heat in the kitchen after serving a roast with all the trimmings to almost 1,200 people, in a bid to teach children the importance of locally sourced produce.

Laurel Lane Primary School served up chicken, potatoes, carrots, broccoli and plum crumble to pupils, parents, staff, and members of the community, as part of a national Roast Dinner Day celebration on Wednesday (29).

A NURSERY which received an 'inadequate' report from OfSTED says it has responded to criticisms and improved.

Government inspectors OfSTED visited Happy Tree Nursery in Admiralty Close, West Drayton in June, publishing their report this summer.

The report criticised the nursery for failing to carry out CRB checks on its staff, and was failing to keep records of where children were, and who was caring for them.

STOCKLEY ACADEMY have reported a 98 per cent overall pass rate for this years A-levels, with 62 per cent of pupils acheiving A* to C grades.

Throughout the morning today (Thursday) students have been collecting their results from the academy in Park View Road, Yiewsley.

FROM Shanghai to Yiewsley, 10 Chinese pupils had an experience to remember during a trip to one of the borough's two academies.

Stockley Academy has been in partnership with Ganquan Middle School in China for over a year and this was the first student visit between the two.

After arriving at Heathrow Airport and doing the obligatory London sightseeing, the 10 students visited the Academy in Park View Road, Yiewsley, for a week of learning.

WHEREVER you go nowadays, you cannot get away from the spectre of health and safety- and these youngsters have been started young as they had a special tour of a building site.

Pupils from Longmead Primary School, in laurel Lane, West Drayton, were specially invited to Parkwest, in nearby Porters Way, for a 'Health and Safety Tour'.