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Elm Primary School - The Unheralded School Secretary

By martink0646 at 16:18 on 03/12/11

One of the consequences to Wisbech of this weeks public sector strike was the effect on schools & parents. Using the link given previously on this website I checked with trepidation the status of my sons school, Elm Primary School & was very pleased to find that it was staying open whilst many others were closing. As I thought about this I realised how good this institution is & how it quietly goes about its...
Thomas Clarkson Community College Moving Forward

By martink0646 at 20:53 on 06/11/11

Thomas Clarkson Community College (TCCC) in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire needs a major pat on the back with the release of a new OFSTED report rating them as 'Satisfactory'. The school has gone from being a failing disaster area on the danger list to an educational establishment about to move into an almost complete £34million facility no longer under notice to improve in the space of 3 or 4 years. As a parent of a...
GCSE Success in Wisbech

By traci_edwards at 20:26 on 25/08/11

Reported today in the Wisbech Standard, students at the College of West Anglia delivered a fantastic GCSE performance of 100% pass rate in grades A-C in English and 72% pass rate in Maths Elsewhere in town, pupils from Wisbech Grammar School were delighted with their results with 100% passes at A-C in English AND Maths and Thomas Clarkson continued their improvement in performance of 20% more passes in English. Nationally, over a...
New Blog Post "All In This Together"

By Cllr Steve Tierney at 13:53 on 18/10/10

New Blog Post "All In This Together" Here's the thing. Council's are supposed to support the whole area over which their jurisdiction extends. Consequently, if you are a County Councillor, as I am, then you have two jobs: be the voice and representative for the people in your division and also try to offer good input and sensible consideration for the county as a whole. While its true that the two things can sometimes...
A Level Results Day Today!

By Laura_Spodula at 18:54 on 19/08/10

This evening could be a time for celebration or disappointment for many students all over the country including ours here in Wisbech and the surrounding areas. It has been well publicised that many students are getting the results they wanted but that is still not enough to get into their chosen universities because the competition is getting so high and applications are saturating our universities. A lot of students will be looking to...

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Which Do You Think is Wisbech’s Best School?

By Cllr Steve Tierney

Wisbech Standard just turned my comments here into their front page headline on the paper's website....

By Laura_Spodula at 00:50 on 28/08/10

Ok, ok the topic is still school, but hey, it's the season for it. I know there is plenty of discussion to be had about what we think makes a good and bad school and there is probably a school in your opinion for every spot on the spectrum. Now, lets us start with Secondary schools. My reasons for starting with this is because these are more in the press because out of these come GCSEs and the teens then get let out into the real...
Considered Abolition of Faith Schools

By specss

I went to a faith school from the age of five to eleven and i dont think it affected my beliefs in...

By Wisbech People at 19:47 on 29/08/10

Following the trend of school articles I was watching a programme on the Beeb this morning and one of the topics they were talking about was (aside from the cat in the wheelie bin) the possible abolition of faith schools in the country. I'm bringing this up because this does affect a lot of schools in the area, many of which are C of E. They were debating whether it was a good idea to send children to faith schools and what sets...
Emotions Run High After GCSE Results Yesterday

By prziloczek

Luckily the last government never got round to wrecking the International GCSE or the International...

By Laura_Spodula at 11:32 on 25/08/10

Well, it's that time of year again and after the A Level results comes the GCSE results. These results tend not to get so much coverage as the A Level results, perhaps because they are seen as less important. No matter what exam an individual is taking the pressure is immense to do well and the constant reminders how much power comes from the results is never ending. There is the old chestnut of an issue about exams getting easier...
Does Thomas Clarkson Community College Concentrate On Sport?

By Wisbech People

I just wondered two things. One firstly if they were and two if they were whether sports is...

By Wisbech People at 22:11 on 25/07/10

In the beginning when The Queen's School originally began the change over to the Thomas Clarkson it was said that it was to be concentrating on sports and integrated new and up to the minute sports facilities within its grounds. Is this still the case? I'm not really sure whether Thomas Clarkson is like a sports academy or anything close to it? Or is it just a regular all round school? Perhaps someone can help me. I have looked on the...
Truancy at Wisbech School, Parents Blamed

By specss

The trouble is Edna our generation was encouraged to go to work to help our familys make ends meet,...

By Laura_Spodula at 22:43 on 25/07/10

I read in the Wisbech Standard this week that a local school is blaming the parents for truancy. Now this is always coming up as an issue with secondary schools because most of the time the children, because they are older, are responsible for themselves getting to school on time or at all. When I read the actual article it was about Nene Infant School, now at this age, who else is going to be responsible but the parents or whoever...