A Liverpool primary school has been rated ‘outstanding’ in every single category by education inspectors. Whitefield Primary School in Everton are celebrating achieving the highest Ofsted grade, with Ofsted concluding that they are fulfilling their motto of “nothing but the best”. Ofsted lavished praise on the 282 pupils, teachers, support staff and ...

A 102 year old fundraiser, who was a volunteer nurse in the Second World War visited Bickerstaffe CE School this week. Organised by the school’s vicar Reverend Andrew Housley, the pupils at Bickerstaffe were in awe during a visit from Kathleen Thomas. Kath, who lives in Aughton and is a parishioner of ...

The District CE Primary School hosted its second Reading Rocks event this weekend (Saturday 14 October), in association with Oxford University Press. After last year's phenomenal event, the Newton-le-Willows primary school hosted another sell-out day which brought like-minded, book-ish primary school staff and librarians together to discuss ways they can make reading rock for ...

A Preston primary school has secured an ‘Outstanding’ grade after its recent Ofsted inspection. Eldon Primary School in Preston received Outstanding in all areas during the inspection in September. The just released report praises Eldon’s “rapid pace of improvement”, quality of teaching and effective leadership from headteacher Azra Butt, senior leaders and ...

Schools across the region are celebrating after the shortlist for this year’s Educate Awards 2017 was announced. The awards, in partnership with Copyrite Systems and Ricoh, is now in its sixth year and is the biggest celebration of education in the North West. Held at Liverpool Cathedral, it is the one ...