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Website spreads Simon’s words

OUR experiment to help turn a Birmingham family into digital pioneers is now nine months old.Read

Youngsters train for a bright future

TWO young lads on the Rookie Sports Leadership programme have seen it all before.Read

Fun’s a game at Edgbaston camp

YOU don’t need tents to go camping. And you certainly don’t need to go away on holiday to have a great time.Read

Cookery course is food for thought

TWELVE little hands are busy chopping, slicing, peeling and dicing vegetables in the Millfield Primary School Let’s Get Cooking Club.Read

New curriculum ideas for primary

PRIMARY school pupils could be taught to master Twitter and Wikipedia instead of learning about history.Read

Seconds out in bully fight

RETIRED boxing champion Joe Calzaghe has launched an advertising campaign for new website, cybermentors.org.uk, which helps the victims of bullying, saying: “If it can happen to me it can happen to anybody.”Read

Graduates are getting best start

TOP university graduates are being head-hunted to help schools in challenging circumstances to succeed.Read

After-school classes inspire early passion

MIRIAM Samuel has her sights set on Paris where she would love to see the city’s most famous landmark.Read

Youngsters so eager to show their French flair

SAUL Greenburgh is looking forward to his next trip to France as he will be doing a bit of the family shopping – in French.Read

Children enjoying a French connection

SCHOOL may have finished for the day but not for this group of youngsters who are dancing from one side of the classroom to the other, singing along to a French tape.Read

Graduates are getting the best start on teaching scheme

THE International School in Tile Cross is a firm believer in the Teach First programme.Read

Youngsters so eager to show their French flair

SAUL Greenburgh is looking forward to his next trip to France as he will be doing a bit of the family shopping – in French.Read

Parents distrust lunchbox ‘rules’

IT is estimated that 1.2 billion packed lunches are prepared for school children every year, for nearly half of all pupils.Read

Lettuce have fruit and veg!

ASK Lawrence Courtnell what he should be bringing in his school lunchbox and he is very precise.Read

Chelsley has shaken off her old blues

CHELSLEY Powell may be the only girl who attends the group but that does not hold her back. In fact, the 15-year-old Smith’s Wood pupil believes she can more than hold her own on the football pitch.Read

Fusion’s helping mould new way of halting crime

THE Fusion Project was initially targeted at North Solihull but has proved to be so successful it has now been rolled out across the borough, says its acting manager Becky Glover.Read

Hopefuls ready to tackle job market

Adrian Benjamin, 22, is determined to pursue a career in banking despite the crisis in the industry.Read

Crunch time for Brum’s students

AS the economic recession continues to bite, Education Correspondent TONY COLLINS looks at what the job prospects are for the current crop of university students about to graduate.Read

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Mitchell Nemeth has his sights set on a career as an Aston Villa midfielder - so when he heard that a local sports centre offered free football training once a week, he was there.

For him, the Thursday night football date at Smith’s Wood Sports College in Chelmsley Wood may be simply a way to better his game but for the organisers, it is part of a Solihull-wide strategy to reduce crime and increase healthy living among young people.Read

It's crunch time for Birmingham students

THERE would appear to be at least one growth industry amidst all the chaos of the credit crunch.Read