• GCSE Results are in - so which school is best in Hitchin?

  By  Fizze1 at 23:01 on 24/08/10

  

  With results going up by over 90% which schools in Hitchin are the high performers? Both Hitchin Boys and Girls School have excellent reputations and obtaining a place for your child is an extremely fierce battle, but are they the best schools in your opinion? Never having attended a school in Hitchin myself I can only compare it to the school that I attended in Stevenage. At the time Hitchin Girls School was knocking spots off my...

• A Level results improve year on year - But why?

  By  Fizze1 at 19:26 on 22/08/10

  

  With all of the schools and colleges local to Hitchin reporting improved A Level and GCSE results this year, are the parents of Hitchin and surrounds concerned about the school their child is due to attend this September? With competition being fierce for places at the best schools regardless of where you live in the country, is Hitchin a little pocket of exception with so many schools performing so well? It is safe to say that the...

• Ilfracombe Art College

  By  Hitchin-People at 11:00 on 22/07/10

  

  LONG serving teachers Tim Hodge and Kevin Cook have said goodbye to colleagues at Ilfracombe Arts College. Tim graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in history and did his teaching certificate at Exeter University before gaining his first teaching job in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in 1976. It was during his four years there that he met and married Theresa. They moved to Ilfracombe in 1981 when Tim took up an...

• Building Schools for the Future? or Schools with no future?

  By  Fizze1 at 20:50 on 09/07/10

  

  With the announcement that the Building Schools for the future scheme introduced by the Labour government is going to be scrapped, are we looking to a generation of children who are years behind their international counterparts. We have spent many years hearing that 'education is the key building a stronger Britain' and now we are being told that 'it will save billions' and help our country's deficit' if we stop redeveloping schools...

• Back to school for Dads in Hitchin - British Schools Museum opens its doors.

  By  Fiona_Sweeney at 23:53 on 23/06/10

  

   Sunday the 20th of June saw the doors of the British Schools Museum, on Queen Street, open its doors for a Fathers Day Event. The museum offered the opportunity for you to experience a lesson in the old boys school in a monitorial style or a lesson in the galleried classroom simulating the Victorian era. The staff, who are all volunteers, were dressed according to their roles and the teachers and monitors were in costume. Once...

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