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Term-time holidays a ‘small part’ of attendance woes – minister

Catherine McKinnell says she’s focused on children who regularly miss ‘significant amounts of school’

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Carer Natasha gets top grades after car crash a day before exams

Despite being run over a day before her exams, Ark Helenswood Academy student Natasha Burrows, who is also a…

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Top marks for heads after GCSE results day worries

Dame Delia Smith, founding principal of Ark Academy, in Wembley, told Schools Week yesterday she has never been as…

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Norwich school posts highest ever results on its journey out of Ofsted inadequate

Good news for Hethersett Academy, in Norwich. The number of students achieving five or more A* to C grades,…

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International pupils land university dreams

Two overseas students from St Joseph’s Catholic High School who couldn’t speak a word of English when they arrived…

Billy Camden

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Oscar is off to university despite losing his memory last September

Trent College student Oscar Sinfield has achieved an A in chemistry and biology and a B in maths and is…

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Billy Camden

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IVF baby Lara to take up medicine place at King’s College London

Lara McNeill is going to King’s College London to study medicine after achieving A*s in Biology, Chemistry and a…

Billy Camden

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