Education

A double farewell to school’s top teachers

Published 17 July 2008

teachersleaving1807 A WORKINGTON headteacher and her deputy are leaving their school.

Headteacher retires after 18 years

Published 17 July 2008

A COCKERMOUTH headteacher is retiring after 18 years at Fairfield Infant School.

School goes to blazers

Published 17 July 2008

A WORKINGTON school has launched its new £35 school uniform to make pupils look smarter.

Carlisle United school’s awards for soccer skills and fund raising

Published 17 July 2008

PUPILS at a Workington school were presented with awards on Tuesday after they raised £1,892.

Awards recognition for engineering students

Published 17 July 2008

TWO of West Cumbria’s top engineering students have been recognised at an awards ceremony at Lakes College recently.

The last night of the prom

Published 12 July 2008

YEAR 11 pupils from Maryport’s Netherhall School celebrated the end of their GCSE exams at a prom in the Washington Central Hotel, in Workington.

Eco centre is an example to other schools

Published 11 July 2008

HUNDREDS of people turned out at Cockermouth School on Wednesday for the opening of the town’s pioneering Eco Centre, the first of its kind in the country.

Fun fair marks nursery’s 45 years

Published 10 July 2008

PAST pupils now nearing their 50s were among dozens of people who turned up at the Mary Platt Pre-School’s fun fair in Cockermouth.

Art attack!

Published 10 July 2008

AN ART exhibition is being held next week to promote the work of two Workington schools.

New policing professor

Published 10 July 2008

THE UNIVERSITY of Cumbria has appointed a professor to the newly created institute of policing and criminal justice.

New children’s centres are a step closer to opening

Published 10 July 2008

TWO children’s centres are preparing to open their doors to families in Aspatria and Silloth.

Pupils’ ghost into second

Published 10 July 2008

PUPILS at Harrington’s Beckstone Primary School have designs on success.

Students’ Open University successes

Published 4 July 2008

WEST Cumbrian students were celebrating after graduating from their Open University courses.

Young engineer’s success

Published 26 June 2008

A KESWICK School pupil plans to enter the Young Engineer for Britain competition after being highly commended in a national design contest.

Pupils sign up to learn life saving techniques

Published 26 June 2008

CHILDREN at Aspatria’s Beacon Hill School will learn life-saving skills from the British Heart Foundation.

Schools should be helped, not pilloried

Published 26 June 2008

A LEADING union boss said that a Government list of schools needing help, which includes Workington’s Southfield Technology College and Beacon Hill School in Aspatria, should not be called “failing”.

We are not a failing school

Published 20 June 2008

BEACON HILL is not a failing school. Ofsted in November 2006 said it was ‘a school to be proud of’, and we take exception to being called a failing school.

Olympic gymnast visits to encourage living for sport

Published 19 June 2008

OLYMPIC gymnast and Commonwealth Games gold medal holder Craig Heap will visit Cockermouth School today to talk to pupils on the Living for Sport programme.