Education

It’s A-level results day tomorrow and hundreds of students across West Sussex will be waiting anxiously for their grades.

More five-year-olds in West Sussex achieved a good level of development in 2017, according to standards set by the Department for Education.

Starting primary school is a big step for children – and for parents – so nursery teacher Suzanne Roberts has put together some tips to ensure the move is a smooth one.

Year 6 pupils at Warninglid Primary School are celebrating after receiving outstanding SATs results.

A new magazine has been introduced into West Sussex secondary schools to develop the feeling of community and open up opportunities.

Students with autism at LVS Hassocks school celebrated the end of the academic school year with their traditional summer sharing party on Friday, July 6.

A Bolney business has teamed up with Warden Park Secondary Academy in Cuckfield to launch a ‘Building Young Futures’ education support programme.

West Sussex County Council has called for a register of home-schooled children to be created.

Worthing College has announced plans to merge with Chichester College after a ‘robust’ selection process.

After a difficult six months which saw the tragic death of two friends, Burgess Hill Academy’s Year 10 students were treated to a fun day.

A morning train from Wivelsfield to Hassocks which has been reinstated as part of a new rail timetable is the ‘wrong train’ for students attending Downlands Community School, a family has said.

A decision to reinstate a morning train from Wivelsfield to Hassocks has left a school ‘delighted’.

“My daughter’s quality of life has rocketed sky high since coming here.”

The leader of West Sussex County Council has been asked to call for a change in the law governing local authority powers to intervene in the running of academies.

Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert has welcomed Govia Thameslink Railway’s decision to reinstate the 8.28am train service from Wivelsfield to Hassocks as part of its new ‘interim’ timetable introduced this week.

Exam results in West Sussex’s primary schools have improved for the second year in a row and have narrowed the gap on the national average.

As the school term ends, figures from the Department of Education show that thousands of parents in West Sussex have used the Government-funded 30 hours a week of free childcare during its first year.

A college steel pan band is calling out for votes to be awarded a Tesco grant.