Education

A troubled village pre-school, which closed temporarily after a number of staff resigned, has reopened.

The operations manager for the Colourbox Montessori School in Haverhill has expressed her delight at winning the prestigious title of Montessorian of the Year.

West Suffolk College students and Thetford Business Forum have been working together to change the image of Thetford and show that it is a great place to work.

Parents and carers have until January 15 to make their application to secure their child’s place at a Suffolk Primary, Infant, Junior or Middle school for September 2018.

Julian Sedgwick, author of the ‘Mysterium’ and ‘Ghosts of Shanghai’ trilogies, visited King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds on Monday.

Coupals Primary Academy in Haverhill has undergone a massive extension after being awarded £2.1 million from Suffolk County Council’s capital programme.

Preparing to put on a musical at The Apex is a big event, especially when you are the first school in Suffolk to be licensed to put on Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s School of Rock.

Newmarket’s All Saints’ Primary School is one of eight local schools involved in the Front Runner programme run by the town’s National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at Palace House. Pupils in Years 2, 4 and 6 have worked over six sessions with performance poet, Justin Coe, in activities which are aimed developing writing skills and understanding of text. The children have even taken inspiration from the horses stabled in the Rothschild Yard.

A primary school in Great Cornard has been given a positive review by inspectors, following concerns over exam results last year.

Sixteen boys from King Edward VI School at Bury St Edmunds took part in a boys’ day of dance alongside professional dancer Tom Hobden, of Dance East.

Culford Prep School matron, Odette Tattersall, will be running the London Marathon in April in aid of the charity, Combat Stress.

Bury St Edmunds Busy Bees had a special visitor for the start of its themed enrolment week on Monday.

A Haverhill teacher has been given a close-up view of the American education system after a scholarship in Nevada.

Year 9 students from Castle Manor Academy have dedicated a whole day of school to France and their love of chocolate.

The deadline is fast approaching to apply for a Suffolk primary school place for the 2017/2018 school year.

Pupils at a Haverhill school have had their artwork exhibited at the town’s Cineworld after the two struck up a brand new arrangement.

As the sun rose on Monday morning, so too did the excitement of pupils and staff of Bury St Edmunds’ Sybil Andrews Academy.

Carole Beedham, head of Brookes Cambridge Independent School, near Risby, says she is delighted after the school’s Early Years provision achieved an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted report.

Busy pupils from Culford School have been getting their teeth into a couple of ventures across the seas – one of which will provide life-changing support to a library in Malawi.

Howard Lay – the chief executive of Samuel Ward Academy Trust – has announced plans to retire from the role.