Education

A Bromley school which supports children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs, has celebrated its
fifth birthday.

Students at St Mary Magdalene and nursery children have been treated to the new bus after five years of fundraising.

A scheme to boost children’s learning by having classes in the great outdoors is spreading its wings to take in the whole country.

The Royal Academy of Dance has announced a new art competition for primary schools from Battersea and across Wandsworth.

There are now 190 children being home-schooled in the borough compared to 69 before we first went into lockdown.

The council has so far received 50 objections since plans were submitted in November.

A number of children were injured in the cave-in at Rosemead Preparatory School on Monday, November 15.

Five London secondary schools have each been awarded £10,000 by Sadiq Khan to help them accelerate student-led environmental projects.

Mum Caroline Rendle fears dozens of children across the borough are facing the same problem.

Little Amal, an 11ft-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee drew crowds wherever she went in South-east London last month, school pupils, Isaac and Laila Motalib-Haque, describe what it was like and the effect seeing her had on them.

The London Fire Brigade said that all staff and students were accounted for.