Education

A local independent school has achieved a good Ofsted rating in less than a year of being open.

Upper Batley High School got to celebrate World Book Day after it had to be cancelled due to the bad weather.

Students from Years 7 and 8 at Thornhill Community Academy spent a day off from their normal lessons while turning one of their classrooms into a news studio.

Children at Eversleigh Day Nursery in Earlsheaton were all fired up during a visit by a local fire service crew.

Batley Girls’ High School pupils are set to perform this year’s school show – J.M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’.

The Little Acorns Nursery in Mirfield recently invited the local fire crews to talk to the children.

The first Schools Food Drive and Schools Foodstival has taken place at Longcauseway Church Community room in Dewsbury.

A West Yorkshire MP has given her backing to a campaign started by the family of a Leeds schoolboy who took his own life.

A student from Spen Valley High School is one of the lucky pupils whose artwork will be displayed for all to see after winning a competition run by The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

A business and enterprise student from Kirklees College was recently judged to be among the best BTEC students in the country.

A voluntary academy inspected by Ofsted for the first time is inadequate, inspectors found following their visit last November.

Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff swapped her seat on the font bench in Parliament for a seat on the front bench in the school’s main hall as she made a special visit to Thornhill Community Academy and joined with students following her address during the assembly.

Tributes have been paid to long-serving former Dewsbury councillor Denis Ripley, a passionate supporter of education and the arts, whose death at 85 we reported last week.

A man who carried his passion for education into politics and played an important role in supporting the arts across the county, former Kirklees Councillor Denis Ripley has died at the age of 85.

Westborough High School recently represented Huddersfield Town in the play-offs of the Premier League’s Enterprise Challenge at Leicester City’s King Power Stadium.

Kirklees College is set to hold a number of open events to give potential attendees and their families the chance to tour its facilities and talk to tutors, employers and students.

Residents in one part of North Kirklees are being urged to make sure they take part in the ongoing library service consultation process to keep both the services and building which houses their local library safe, while a meeting on Friday aims to rally support for another.