Education

Mrs Ciccazzo, Forest School English teacher recently asked her Year 10 class to write a poem about Lockdown. The response she got was truly fantastic; the poetry was moving, honest...

GCSE student Samuel Palmer, 16, was extremely relieved to get a negative Covid-19 test just before he started back at The Piggott School last month. In his own words, here...

Wescott Infants School pupils celebrated the return to school last month with a World Book Day celebration, dressing up as favourite fictional characters. They held their celebration in two parts....

A WOKINGHAM housebuilder has donated £1,000 to a school to celebrate the end of an era. As it prepares to finish work on its Montague Park development, David Wilson Homes...

PARENTS of children at Bohunt School have launched a second petition calling for a sixth form to be built onsite. In February, the school trust launched a consultation for expansion,...

CHILDREN will be able to learn coding skills at a new after-school club launching later this month. Code Ninjas has set up a new centre at St Crispin’s School on...

A parent who sent in parents’ questions about the Piggott places allocation has had replies from Wokingham Borough Council children’s services director Carol Cammiss. The director referred to the increased...

Parents battling for places at their local secondary school had surprise good news this week – 25 children have been offered spaces there. Wokingham Borough Council yesterday revealed 19 extra...

MP Theresa May is weighing into the battle for places at a school where 159 children are on the waiting list. Nearly 60 of those children live in the secondary...

NINE in 10 secondary school pupils in the borough have used lateral flow tests since they returned to classrooms. Last week, students were asked to have three rapid tests at...