Solar panels on the roof of the Ore Valley Campus of East Sussex College will save over £5,000 a year on energy costs. Hastings MP Amber Rudd is encouraging more schools and businesses to copy the example set by Ore Valley which at one stage this month was generating 76 per cent of its energy […]
Irmina Corder was one of the first children to come to Pestalozzi in 1960 and on Saturday she was one of the last to leave as she met up once again with the childhood friends who helped shape her life. So the bell has tolled for the last time on the magnificent estate that was […]
Schools providing breakfast for children from disadvantaged backgrounds helps give youngsters the ‘best possible start in life’ according to Hastings MP Amber Rudd. She recently visited Baird Primary Academy which is benefitting from the National Breakfast Programme programme that provides pupils with a healthy breakfast. Family Action and Magic Breakfast were awarded the Department for […]
Students from The St Leonards Academy continued their recent Town Sports success by winning the overall competition for a sixth straight year – and they even managed to beat their own record for individual medals in the process. It was a day of impressive performances, with the Academy winning a total of 65 medals, comprising 26 […]
Schools in Hastings will benefit from a £450,000 cash boost as part of Opportunity Area funding coming to Hastings and Rye. Today MP Amber Rudd will visit schools across her constituency following the announcement that Hastings will receive £450,000 to boost attendance. Ms Rudd said: “People in Hastings and Rye should know I will always fight for […]
Hastings and Rye MP Amber Rudd was given a whistle stop tour of some of the community work being undertaken at some Marshlink stations last Saturday. The tour was organised by John Spencer of Winchelsea, one of the volunteers working for the Sussex Community Rail Partnership, the community interest company which encourages community use of […]
Buckswood School celebrated it’s annual sports and speech day on Saturday, which culminated in the graduation of 80 members of its sixth form, many of them off to study at some of the UK’s top universities. The day kicked off with the traditional leavers’ assembly in the Great Hall. Parents, students and guests were invited […]
Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) students from Ark William Parker Academy, finally got to test themselves and their training on a practice weekend expedition. After months of training, planning and preparation, the Year 10 students arrived on Saturday morning at the assessment centre in Cranbrook. Tents were quickly distributed and once equipment was stowed […]
Buckswood School’s Pipe band joined a multitude of pipers and bands in Colchester at the weekend for the 27th annual Pipes in the Park! Pipes and drums from across the South of England played incredible medleys of Scottish tunes as they performed in the arena at Colchester’s Lower Castle Park. The competition ranged from beginners […]
