Dear Parent/Carer You may have heard that head teachers of hundreds of the country’s primary and secondary schools have recently written to parents to warn of the imminent education funding crisis and to ask parents to make sure this subject is pushed up the political agenda. At a time...
Parents of children attending the IPACA academy have submitted a petition to the Adridge Academy governors expressing a vote of no confidence. The IPACA is a new kind of school which embraces technology with an aim to embrace a learning revolution. They call this revolution "the death of education"....
In November 2014, Southwell Smiley Faces Pre-School and Out of School Club on Portland were invited to use a Nature Area belonging to IPACA Southwell Campus to develop a Forest School provision for early years learning. The Southwell Smiley Faces team cleared the site, which had not been accessed...
Students and staff at Weymouth College are proudly celebrating another year of A Level success, as course results are published across the country today. This year, the College’s A Level students have achieved an outstanding overall A2 pass rate of 98%, demonstrating that the College continues to maintain an...
Skills Minister Nick Boles and Richard Drax MP joined Weymouth College at a reception and presentation on Friday 18th March – the culmination of a week of activities at the college in support of National Apprenticeship Week. A visit to apprentices on Portland Before visiting the Cranford Avenue Campus,...
Retired Chief Superintendent of Police Tony Day will be installed as the new President of the Old Hardyeans at the start of the Annual Reunion Dinner on Saturday 19 March, The event will be held at the Sixth Form Centre at Thomas Hardye School, beginning at 7.30pm. The dinner...
Ben Lane, who has been interim Vice Principal of Weymouth College since August 2015, will take up the post with immediate effect. The Chair of Governors, David Fallows confirmed that the governors had been unanimous in their decision to appoint Mr Lane. Nigel Evans, Principal said: “Iam so very...
Nigel Evans, who has been interim Principal of Weymouth College since November 2014, will take up the post with immediate effect. He was selected by the board of governors to lead the college, which was rated ‘good’ by Ofsted in November 2015, after a national recruitment and selection process. ...
Will Makepeace (17) and Antony Fairhurst (19) – both Prince’s Trust Programme students with Weymouth College – will be spending much of the late spring and summer volunteering on the Tall Ship Pelican. The two students joined T.S. Pelican – a Class A tall ship operated by Dorset-based charity...
A group of Childcare students from Weymouth College who have completed NCS as part of their course have supported You First Dorset and Cancer Research UK by fundraising and putting together Christmas boxes. The group were inspired to help You First Dorset after they heard through a talk about...
