Nottingham City caterers have been recognised for providing quality school food. On Thursday, special guests, head teachers, schools cooks and midday supervisors from forty local schools visited Greenfields Community School to celebrate the City Caterers achieving the Soil Association’s bronze Food for Life Catering Mark; a guarantee that the food served across the city is freshly […]
Dunkirk Primary School has been praised by Ofsted inspectors for the way it handled its expansion over two sites to accommodate more pupils. The school took over a second campus in Lenton in 2013 a mile away from its main Highfields campus in Dunkirk and since then has added a further 200 pupils to its […]
School attendance has improved in Nottingham for the fifth year in row – sending the City higher up national tables for reduced absence. The number of children missing lessons has fallen from 5.2% in Autumn Term 2013 to 4.6% in Autumn Term 2014. Statistics published by the Department of Education today (21 May) show: authorised […]
Country music superstar Dolly Parton has said ‘Ay up mi duck’ to Nottingham people, and asked them to support a scheme to give free books to children from birth until their fifth birthday. In a special video message to Nottingham, Dolly had a go at the city’s famous style of welcome – before urging everyone […]
The best of Nottingham’s young creative talent will be on show at Nottingham Playhouse on Friday (15 May). Hundreds of people will attend the 7th Nottingham Young Creative Awards, which give people aged 13 to 24 who live, study or work in Nottingham the chance to show off their creative work, network with future employers […]
Nottingham City Council is seeking views on the way it signposts help and support for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The Local Offer was launched in September 2014 to offer information, advice and support, and continue to develop an online directory of services. It is part of the City […]
The final of the City Council’s annual Road Safety Quiz will take place at the Djanogly Academy Theatre this Thursday (April 30). More than 13,000 school children from 74 schools across the city – almost all primary school children in the city – have taken part in the quiz heats. The Road Safety team works […]
Families in Nottingham have another two weeks to give their views on the way services are delivered in children’s centres. Nottingham City Council has extended its consultation asking people to comment on whether a greater partnership could be created between schools and children’s centres which are based on the same site. Schools would take over […]
The number of children missing lessons in Nottingham has fallen faster than anywhere else in the UK. Statistics published by the Department of Education show that in the last school year (Sept 2013 – July 2014) pupil absence decreased from 6.1% in 2012/13 to 5.1% in 2013/14. This is down to a drop in authorised absence […]
Contractors on site of the new £5.3m Heathfield Primary School off Highbury Road on Kensall Drive in Basford have held a ‘bolt tightening’ ceremony to mark the placement of the final piece in the building’s steel frame, just two months after construction work commenced. The event, which was hosted by Wates and attended by representatives […]