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School 'transforms' curriculum with special visits

From left: Aleisha Lee-Brown, 16, Shuaib Khalid, 15, Poet Jacob Sam-Le Rose and Joshua Dhindsa, 15

12:51pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

PUPILS at The Beaconsfield School have been working with a group of professional writers to develop their literary skills.

Private and grammar schools could manage Cressex

12:58pm Tuesday 19th January 2010

PRESTIGIOUS private and grammar schools could help support Cressex Community School as the Government takes ‘decisive’ action to improve results.

Cressex head: we are improving

4:38pm Thursday 14th January 2010

THE head of High Wycombe’s Cressex Community School today said pupils’ learning is progressing after league tables showed its overall exams score has fallen.

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Most secondary schools improving, results show

5:03pm Wednesday 13th January 2010

MOST south Buckinghamshire secondary schools have improved a key GCSE score with some notching up major leaps in performance.

Prime Minister praise for High Wycombe school

4:22pm Wednesday 13th January 2010

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown praised the achievements of a High Wycombe school at a Downing Street reception honouring the country's most improved schools.

150 join Flackwell Heath school's snow clearing operation

4:20pm Sunday 10th January 2010

MORE than 150 children, parents, staff and others got their shovels out and cleared mounds of snow from a Flackwell Heath primary school.

Labour fury at school lottery suggestion

9:00am Tuesday 5th January 2010

A LABOUR election hopeful said education chiefs’ probe into using a lottery system for school places ‘beggars belief’.

Diplomas on offer to teenagers in Bucks

9:28am Sunday 3rd January 2010

YOUNG people will get a helping hand from Connexions in Buckinghamshire with two information evenings.

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Pupils bump into Robbie Williams at TV studios

9:47am Wednesday 30th December 2009

PUPILS at Stoke Poges School were given a Christmas treat when they got to meet Robbie Williams and perform a carol on breakfast television show GMTV.