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Almost 20,000 days lost to truancy

David Kirk

9:27am Wednesday 27th January 2010

NEARLY 20,000 school days were missed by secondary pupils in the Basingstoke area due to truancy over two terms.

Over half of schools attain above average in GCSEs

Brighton Hill Community School pupils celebrate their GCSE results last year

4:58pm Thursday 21st January 2010

MORE than half the secondary schools in The Gazette area achieved higher than the national average in the GCSE league table results.

Costello wired up for top ICT award

Dominic Tester, assistant head teacher, helps Year 11 pupils with their IT studies

4:59pm Thursday 21st January 2010

A SECONDARY school is in with the chance of gaining national recognition after being shortlisted for a prestigious technology award.

We've got talent

Eleanor Stephens, eight

5:46pm Thursday 7th January 2010

YOUNGSTERS proved their school has got talent when they performed in their own version of the ITV1 show Britain’s Got Talent.

A positive move

Cllr David Kirk

12:50pm Sunday 27th December 2009

LAST Thursday education chief Councillor David Kirk recommended that Chineham Park Primary School in Popley, Basingstoke should be earmarked for closure at the end of the 2009-10 academic year.

Campaigning mum gives up the fight

Sharon Lunnon at a meeting held at Chineham Park Primary School

9:18am Friday 18th December 2009

A MOTHER who has campaigned to keep her children’s school open has now given up the fight.

'They don't care about the school children'

Some parents and pupils of Chineham Park Primary School pictured last Thursday afternoon

11:55am Monday 14th December 2009

IT WAS the news they expected and dreaded – but parents have still reacted angrily after hearing that county education experts want to axe their children’s Basingstoke school.

Governors 'want school to close'

Chineham Park Primary School faces closure threat

11:10am Thursday 10th December 2009

A BASINGSTOKE school in crisis has governors that want to close it instead of save it.

School SATs score among nation's best

Sherborne St John CoE Primary School head teacher Karen Payne with pupils

11:00am Thursday 10th December 2009

A PRIMARY school near Basingstoke has recorded some of the best results in the country in national tests for 11-year-olds.

SATS results fuel debate over closure plan

11:00am Thursday 10th December 2009

RESULTS released this week show that children from a Basingstoke school which might be closed down next year, partly because of poor performance, could be sent to one with even worse results.






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