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Education: Tudor kids score with global goal campaign

WHAT have Thierry Henry, Jessica Alba and a Solihull school’s teenage football team got in common? They’ve all signed up to the global 1GOAL campaign.Read

Black Country children reach for the stars with Stageworks drama club in Aldridge

YOUNGSTERS at a Black Country drama school are stagestruck as they reach for the stars.Read

Education: Long arm of the law

ARMED officers paid a visit to Lyndon School to show a group of pupils just how the police force operates.Read

Sutton Coldfield family of piano teachers raise money for children's leukaemia charity CLIC Sargent

MADDISON Green’s family are hoping for good news in 2010 – news that their ten-year-old daughter is safely in remission from leukaemia.Read

Education: Pupils shine brightly ahead of exciting times

HUGE changes lie ahead at King Edward’s School but nothing is getting in the way of the students’ success.Read

Education: At the service of parents with busy lifestyles

IT’S hard enough looking after a baby or young child without having to get on with normal life as well.Read

Education: Going our own way gives my pupils choices

THERE is a quiet revolution taking place in some schools across the country where teachers have made the decision to alter the National Curriculum to suit the needs of their pupils.Read

Health: Catalogue of woes for first time parents

THERE won’t be a parent alive who hasn’t felt a little stressed at raising kids at times.Read

Arthur Terry School in Sutton Coldfield changes National Curriculum

THERE is a quiet revolution taking place in some schools across the country where teachers have made the decision to alter the National Curriculum to suit the needs of their pupils.Read

Education: Children chasing dream of being next Usain Bolt

IT IS a chilly morning but that is not stopping a group of youngsters from racing round the track, jumping into sand and doing a whole load of warm up exercises.Read

Shakti helps women fulfil their dreams

‘IMAGINE a woman who authors her own life.’ That is the motto of the Shakti Women, a Birmingham-based group for business and professional women, led by Siobhan Harper-Nunes.Read

Those with a tot can start using services

IT’S hard enough looking after a baby or young child without having to get on with normal life as well.Read

Education: Children bring festive cheer with carols

A SHELDON school has been celebrating Christmas by going on the road and touring city venues to share their singing skills.Read

Education: Schools Awards' excellent entries

The Birmingham Mail, in association with The Pallasades Shopping Centre, has been delighted to receive so many excellent entries and nominations for our second Schools Awards campaign.Read

Dance group's set to take first steps

FROM absolute beginners to seasoned performers, a new dance group will take to the stage next week in front of an audience of hundreds.Read

Garden is the place to take the children

DO YOUR kids think that vegetables come from supermarkets?Read

Growing greener futures

ENVIRONMENTAL volunteering charity BTCV is also working with families across the UK to encourage food growing and pass on gardening skills.Read

Family Life: Island haven caters for special needs

OVER just two years, Balsall Common housewife Carol Howe and her business partner and friend Jacqui Walters-Hutton have set up, expanded and gained Ofsted praise for their brainchild of a school, the Island Project.Read

Family Life: Mum creates website to help parents of children wtih Autism

FRUSTRATED by experiences with her autistic son, accountant and mother-of-two Maria Beard was inspired to create a website to help other parents.Read

Judging a book – X Factor style

HALLOWEEN may be well passed but students at one Birmingham school are knee-deep in vampires and ghouls as they read their way through a pile of books.Read