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LIFE at Acocks Green Primary School is going "from strength to strength". Read

How to encourage kids

PARENTS can encourage their children into enjoying science: Read

Lunch club helps us to understand

CHASING burglars and comparing vegetables may sound like fun but the club also has a serious message and 12-year-old Zakia Parveen is among those who are aware of it. Read

Science isn't like work to us, it's more like a game

PEERING into her microscope, 12-year-old Zynap Farah is keen to share her findings. Read

Start a reading routine

PARENTS should make reading with their children their New Year priority, says Children's Secretary Ed Balls. Read

We love labs!

GROUP of girls are jostling to peer into the microscope, comparing notes on all they can see. Read

Good old family fun

PARENTS who worry they haven't got enough money to give their kids expensive treats may take heart from new research which shows that what makes most children happy is old-fashioned family fun. Read

Good partnerships with businesses and local authorities

IT TOOK five years from the initial bid to completion of the new hall and school head of children's services William Kearns was the man behind much of the planning. Read

Having a new sport hall has given the kids confidence

YOUNGSTERS at a Birmingham residential special school have no excuse not to get fit this year thanks to a new purpose-built sports hall. Read

Kids take it easy after Ofsted visit

STAFF at Solihull's largest infant school are going "above and beyond" in helping pupils to achieve. Read

The pupils love it and are very proud of it

BADMINTON, basketball, football, gymnastics, boxercise, aerobics, indoor rugby and football - the list goes on. Read

Brum gets a raw deal

SCHOOLS in Birmingham have again fallen foul of a new benchmark measure of pupils' GCSE prowess - despite a further improvement in their performance over the previous 12 months. Read

League tables are 'damaging' - head

THE head of a top-performing Black Country school today hit out at the publication of GCSE league tables because of the "negative and damaging" effect it has on pupils. Read

Results boost for boroughs

THERE was a clean sweep of success for secondary school pupils across Dudley, Walsall, Sandwell and Wolverhampton today - providing no-one takes a look at the national GCSE league tables! Read

Saint Augustine's success is holy deserved

ST AUGUSTINE'S Catholic High School in Redditch was among Worcestershire's more impressive performers. Read

Secondary delight as scores soar

SECONDARY schools across Worcestershire were today basking in the glow of producing the best GCSE performance of any local authority across the region. Read

Solihull's flying high again

SECONDARY schools in Solihull today cemented their place at the top of the GCSE tree in the West Midlands following publication of the latest Key Stage 4 performance tables. Read

Staffs sets a personal best

SUCCESS is becoming something of a habit for secondary school pupils across Staffordshire. Read

Countdown has begun for move to new building

OUT with the old, in with the new! Read

Let the battle of the books begin

THOUSANDS of teenagers in schools across Birmingham will next week begin choosing the finalist in an X Factor-style knockout competition for their top read. Read

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