Education

London City Airport is commissioning a new artwork to welcome visitors.

A group of 23 students from West Hatch High School in Chigwell have returned from a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Zambia.

The weekday routine of most working parents needs to run like clockwork but often resembles a circus. If that routine involves any under 5s, you may need all the help you can get.

The Mayor of London is writing to every headteacher to give his full support to LGBTQ+ inclusive relationships education in schools.

Councillors from 26 authorities have signed a letter calling for more funding for disabled students before the shortfall reaches a "tipping point".

Redbridge Council has made £336,351 in library fines since 2015, the Recorder can reveal.

More cash would be made available for pupils at 19 schools in Redbridge under a proposal to boost education funding, analysis suggests.

Staff and pupils at the Ursuline Academy Ilford are celebrating some "outstanding individual performances" in this year's GCSE results.

Oaks Park High School students and staff are celebrating the best set of results since the school opened in 2001.

It's another happy and successful results day for students and staff at Beal High School.

Loxford School is celebrating "phenomenal success" with the school's best ever set of GCSE results.

Pupils at Isaac Newton Academy in Ilford are celebrating an "outstanding" set of GCSE results.

Bancroft's School in Woodford Green is celebrating another year of "excellent" performances at GCSE by its pupils.

Kantor King Solomon pupils have earned themselves another brilliant crop of GCSE results this year.

The co-headteachers of Mayfield School in Goodmayes have said they are "immensely proud" of the hard work of their students, staff and achievements.

Caterham High School in Clayhall has seen a "remarkable" spike in GCSE results just one year after the appointment of a new headteacher.

Staff and students at Woodbridge High School are celebrating another record-breaking GCSE results day with their best ever haul.

Across the borough, Year 11 pupils will this morning be opening envelopes with baited breath. But the grades they will have earned will no longer be lettered - so here's our guide to the new-look numbered GCSE grades.

Students at West Hatch High School, Chigwell, have achieved excellent A-level results once again this year following a long tradition for the school's sixth form.

It's that time of year again when many students from across the country are waking up feeling anxious as judgement day has arrived: A-level results day.

Redbridge Council does not keep track of incidents of racism or sexual harassment in its schools, nor does it know how much it pays out each year in claims for accidents on school grounds, the Recorder can reveal.

Parents of children at Our Lady of Lourdes primary school had applied to the High Court for a judicial review against Brentwood Diocese, which oversees the administration of all Catholic schools in the area.

As a dad viewed the school's CCTV footage he couldn't help let out a tear.

A swimming school has spoken out against a decision to close a well used pool.

A drop in the number of children kicked out of school for bullying behaviour in Redbridge has been welcomed by the council.

A hospital director who turned around "one of the worst midwifery departments" in the UK has received a university's top honour.

Following a spate of residents getting conned out of their cash in the borough, a bank has teamed up with police to run a scam avoidance school (SAS).

The shadow education secretary, MP Angela Rayner, has branded £31.4million of funding cuts to schools in Redbridge "scandalous" and voiced her support for parents and teachers in the borough in the fight against forced academisation.

To combat an increasingly "concrete world", members of the community came together to create a woodland oasis for primary school pupils to enjoy.

The shadow secretary of state for education, MP Angela Rayner, will be joining Redbridge councillors, parents and campaigners today (July 10) for a public meeting on school cuts and academisation in the borough.

To mark 50 years of nurturing young minds, a playgroup is holding a celebratory event this weekend.

More than 150 unqualified teachers were working at state schools in Redbridge last year, figures reveal.

Parents at a primary school in Wanstead due to be turned into an academy have launched legal proceedings against the Catholic body in charge of the school.

Ilford County High School was forced to close today as teachers and support staff went on strike over budget cuts and "intolerable workloads".

Teachers at Ilford County High School have announced three days of strike action citing "intolerable workloads", larger class sizes and funding cuts.

Police confirm that primary children in the borough are being groomed to join street gangs and carry knives.

A nursery in Ilford has been told by Ofsted it Requires Improvement.

A school in Chadwell Heath which opened in 2016 has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted inspectors.

Seven roads in Redbridge will be closed during school drop-off and collection times and motorist will be fined if they do not comply.

Students, teachers and community leaders gathered on Thursday (June 6) to celebrate three years of hard work tackling air pollution in the areas near their schools.

An 11-year-old girl from Barkingside has scored the highest mark possible on the Mensa IQ test - two points higher than the estimated IQs of Professor Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.

Primary school children will hammer home the importance of clean air in an assembly in front of MPs, the Mayor and councillors.

The education arm of a care service provider based in Ilford has been rated inadequate by Ofsted.

An Ilford school has defended itself and revealed it will be opening a contemplation room later this month after a photo emerged on social media of students praying in a car park.