Education · 20 August 2020
Director of Education in Liverpool, Jonathan James, reflects on today’s GCSE grades being issued to young people... Thousands of young people will be receiving their centre-assessed GCSE grades today and I want to congratulate them all. They have all done something amazing and unique, something no other young person has ever been asked to do:
Education · 19 August 2020
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson and Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram have written to the Education Secretary requesting clarity and financial support for Higher Education institutions and students who have not secured their places for study this year. The Mayors met with Higher Education bodies in the City Region this week and
Education · 18 August 2020
AN exciting new project could see more members of Liverpool’s BAME community pursuing dream careers in teaching and social work. The unique initiative is a collaboration between Liverpool Hope University and Liverpool City Council. too few people from the city’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups take up roles in social work and teaching.
Education · 13 August 2020
Student Alice Hardaker is celebrating today after securing a place at the prestigious Trinity College in Oxford. The 18 year-old, a pupil at St John Bosco in Croxteth, will study law at Oxford University after getting an A* in History and an A in both English Literature and Sociology to take the next step on
Education · 13 August 2020
Education chiefs in Liverpool have praised the hard work and resilience of A-level students – and urged them not to be downhearted if the grades they receive today are not what they had hoped for. Students were unable to sit their tests earlier this summer due to COVID-19, so the results are based on a
Blog · 13 August 2020
As sixth-form students in the city receive their A-level results today, Liverpool’s Director of Education, Jonathan Jones, has a message for them… Today will be a day of highs and lows. This year in education has been challenging and unimaginable for everyone but has been particularly unsettling for students who would have ordinarily been sitting
News · 14 July 2020
The longest serving Headteacher on Merseyside is to retire – after educating two generations of children! Dennis Hardiman, MBE, has been Headteacher of St. Sebastian’s Catholic Primary School in Fairfield since 1983. And for the last 14 years he’s also been Headteacher of St. Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School in Stoneycroft. Although both schools serve deprived
News · 14 July 2020
Liverpool City Council has written to every school in the city offering road safety measures to help maintain the improved air quality created by the Covid-19 lockdown.
Education · 13 July 2020
Tributes are being paid to a Liverpool headteacher who has passed away aged just 40. Kate Griffin, who had been head at Christ the King Catholic Primary in Wavertree since 2014, died in hospital on Saturday after recently being diagnosed with a serious illness. In a statement issued to parents, acting head David Delaney and
Education · 8 July 2020
Liverpool Central Library is to reopen next week, with reduced hours and additional measures in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The Government instructed all libraries to shut on 23 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From Monday 13 July, Central Library and Archive will reopen of a weekday only, from 10am until 3pm.
Covid-19 · 17 June 2020
Schools in Liverpool have been advised they can start admitting children again – providing they have the capacity to do so safely. Headteachers have been contacted by Liverpool City Council to inform them that it is now considered safe for them to look at taking in pupils who are not the children of key workers.
Covid-19 · 5 June 2020
Liverpool’s thousands of school staff have received a ‘thank you’ message from education chiefs in the city. Director of Children and Young People Services, Steve Reddy and Cllr Barbara Murray, Cabinet member for education, have written to thank them for their hard work and support over the last three months. Many staff have been involved
News · 4 June 2020
LIVERPOOL’S libraries may still be closed but that isn’t stopping them from encouraging our youngest residents to pick up a book. From tomorrow, Friday, 5 June, the city’s libraries will be backing the Reading Agency’s annual Summer Reading Challenge which is going digital for 2020 and is aimed at children aged four-11. Although usually taking
News · 3 June 2020
If you’re going back to school, follow the rules… That’s the message from Liverpool City Council as pupils return to the classroom in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
This week some schools have re-opened to accept the children of key workers and vulnerable residents, who had previously used the city’s Childcare Hubs.
News · 19 May 2020
National government has asked child care providers including childminders to begin to welcome children back from the 1st June 2020. Each child care provider will need to individually determine when their setting should re-open or, where a setting is already open, how the setting should incrementally increases the number of children attending. Any decision needs to
Education · 15 May 2020
Schools in Liverpool will only be open to the pupils of key workers and vulnerable children from the start of June. Director of Children and Young People’s Services, Steve Reddy, is today writing to parents via schools to tell them that the council does not expect schools to reopen to any other year groups at
Blog · 14 May 2020
The ‘Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service’ (EMTAS) works with schools to help raise the educational attainment of ethnic minority pupils. The team offers support to children learning English, helps improve outcomes for BME kids at risk of underachievement and also provides specialist staff for classroom support. Gill Rowlands is the manager of EMTAS and
Education · 13 May 2020
Mayor Joe Anderson is “minded to resist” plans to reopen primary schools to some year groups due to safety concerns from parents and teaching unions. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last Sunday that the government was looking at a phased return from 1 June, with reception, year one and year six pupils going back first,
News · 1 May 2020
The owners of Sciontec Liverpool have announced a major new shareholder in a boost to the city's knowledge sector.
News · 9 April 2020
If your children are attending one of the childcare hubs in the city please check which hubs are open both across the whole Easter holiday period and on the two bank holidays, Good Friday and Easter Monday. All special schools are closed during the Easter holiday period except Sandfield Park which is offering limited provision
