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Election fever hits Lady Lumley’s School
8:57am Wednesday 10th March 2010
TWO hundred sixth formers in Pickering caught election fever during a visit by Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Howard Keal.
York High school take up enterprise challenge
11:13am Tuesday 9th March 2010
An enterprise challenge was created by a healthy drinks bar on a visit to York High school.
Competition hots up in schools bike race
11:14am Tuesday 9th March 2010
COMPETITION is hotting up among York schools in a bike race from Lands End to John O’Groats – with a difference.
MP Anne McIntosh voices school budgets concern
11:16am Tuesday 9th March 2010
EDUCATION secretary Ed Balls called on the Conservative MP for the Vale of York to vote Labour when she asked him about school budgets.
Pupils go head-to-head in “virtual cycle race”
1:55pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010
A CYCLE race will take York schoolchildren on a virtual journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats Schools across the city are set to go head-to-head in a “virtual cycle race”.
York St John University boss plans farewell lecture
12:04pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010
THE woman who led the transformation of a York college into a university will reveal some of her experiences in a lecture on Tuesday.
Joseph Rowntree pupils get first glimpse of their new school
9:07am Wednesday 3rd March 2010
IT was a new term and a new multi-million pound building for youngsters going back to the classroom at one York secondary school.
Park Grove School show off new website
11:33am Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Pupil Jack Booth shows off the new website at Park Grove School watched by head teacher Andrew Calverley, left, Mike Holroyde, senior advisor for City of York Council, and other pupils.
Artist’s dash of colour for St Oswald’s CE School’s hall
11:37am Tuesday 2nd March 2010
YOUNGSTERS at a York school have helped to create a mural for their assembly hall.
Stamford Bridge Primary School pupils raise awareness of Fairtrade
11:39am Monday 1st March 2010
SCHOOL pals brewed up a successful tea party to raise awareness of Fairtrade.
Yorkshire Coast College celebrates 100 per cent apprenticeship success rate
11:43am Monday 1st March 2010
YORKSHIRE Coast College is celebrating a 100 per cent success rate in its engineering apprenticeships programme.
York Ainsty funded gazebo unveiled at Rufforth primary school
11:48am Friday 26th February 2010
PUPILS at a York village primary school can take advantage of a new gazebo.
Pupils’ perspectives at York’s Guildhall
8:02am Thursday 25th February 2010
DOZENS of teenagers came together to share their ideas at York’s annual secondary school council conference.
Two primary schools scoop £205k revamp
10:13am Wednesday 24th February 2010
TWO schools in Selby district are set to get more than £200,000 for refurbishment works next year as councillors outline their spending plans.
Cooking Bus to offer York students food advice
10:17am Wednesday 24th February 2010
Students will have the chance to learn how to eat well on a budget when the Cooking Bus visits the University of York.
Yorkshire Air Museum receives Government award for educational visits
10:21am Wednesday 24th February 2010
THE efforts of a North Yorkshire museum to provide top flight educational visits for the region’s schoolchildren has seen it recognised with a Government award.
York and North Yorkshire pupils visit Auschwitz Nazi death camp
11:04am Tuesday 23rd February 2010
TEENAGERS from schools across York and North Yorkshire are to get an opportunity to learn an important lesson from history in a visit to a notorious Nazi death camp.
Haxby bakery holds free baking classes for home-educated children
11:59am Tuesday 23rd February 2010
A BAKERY in Haxby has started holding free baking classes for a group of home-educated children.
University of York research unit recognised by Queen
1:38pm Monday 22nd February 2010
THE Queen has recognised the work of a research unit at the University of York which has helped to develop a range of policies to support vulnerable people for more than 35 years.
Truancy figures show thousands of lessons missed
9:00am Friday 19th February 2010
TRUANCY figures for York and North Yorkshire have revealed tens of thousands of lessons are being missed by pupils through unauthorised absences.
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