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Teenager from Hampstead Garden Suburb wins national poetry competition
8:00am Sunday 7th December 2008
A poem by a teenager from Hampstead Garden Suburb is featured in a Penguin anthology after she won a national writing competition.
Comments (0)Boys get a kick out of holiday club
3:47pm Monday 3rd November 2008
Encouraging young boys to get off the football pitch and into the classroom is often a gruelling task. But three young men from Colindale believe they have found an answer by setting up a holiday football club in partnership with a local school.
Reward cards are a nice touch
8:58am Monday 20th October 2008
A schoolteacher is targeting Barnet schools with a novel idea to inspire children to learn.
Students take art to Africa
10:21am Wednesday 8th October 2008
An after-school arts group is taking students on a journey of self-development with a three-week trip to Tanzania in December.
Students achieve highest GCSE grades in UK
8:10am Friday 26th September 2008
Talented students from Barnet and Potters Bar are celebrating after finding out they achieved some of the highest GCSE grades in the country.
A new voice for Hindus
6:56pm Wednesday 24th September 2008
Barnet borough’s Hindu population was given a common voice last week with the launch of a forum. TOMASZ JOHNSON finds out what its members want to do for their community
A culture of achievement
3:25pm Tuesday 23rd September 2008
Black students at a supplementary school in Grahame Park are bucking a worrying national trend of lower-than-average exam results. Dina Rickman finds out how
The argument is academic
8:40am Saturday 20th September 2008
Wren Academy in North Finchley is one of 47 privately sponsored academies launched by the Government this month.
Mother retrains as an electrician
4:51pm Thursday 18th September 2008
The construction industry has always been dominated by men, but a Barnet mother-of-four is determined not to let that hold her back. Dina Rickman talks to trainee electrician Heather Hurloll about her new vocation
UK's first Hindu school opens
8:14am Thursday 11th September 2008
Concerns over racial segregation surround the opening of England’s first Hindu state school in Edgware.
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Edgware bus drivers in 24-hour strike
More than 300 bus workers have walked out in Edgware and neighbouring Harrow this morning in a dispute over pay.
Finchley man caught in Bangkok nightclub fire
A former Finchley schoolboy has spoken of the horror of seeing people “like burning effigies” after he was caught in a fire in a Bangkok nightclub.
Wassailing for a bumper crop
Wassailing is the ancient practice of blessing apple orchards to ensure a plentiful crop the following year.
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