A SECONDARY school has won a prestigious national award. Sedgefield Community College, a member of Laidlaw Schools Trust, has been awarded Secondary School of the Year in the Tes Schools Awards 2021. The honour is given to schools ‘that have had an exceptional performance in the previous 12 months’, either seeing rapid improvement or ‘continued excellence.’ It recognises schools which go beyond academic achievement and demonstrate ‘innovation’ and ‘imagination’. The judges described the County Durham school as ‘exceptional’ and recognised the ambition of staff to do their very best for students. Tes highlighted how the school has and continues to manage the challenges of Covid-19.
Sedgefield Community College named best in country
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Once failing Durham college named best secondary school in the country in prestigious TES awards
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Labour has accused the government of outsourcing its flagship national tutoring programme, designed to help the most disadvantaged children catch up after the Covid pandemic, to a giant human resources conglomerate “with little tutoring experience”.
The £25m contract to provide one-to-one and small-group tuition, which is at the heart of the government’s catch-up programme for England’s children, has been handed to the vast Dutch multinational company Randstad, it was confirmed this week.
It is understood that Randstad, which has offices in 38 countries spread across five continents and an annual turnover of £17bn, put in a significantly cheaper bid than its only rival in the tendering process, raising concerns that the government has prioritised cost over quality.
Newly called General Authority Seventy Elder Clark G. Gilbert still remembers the first time he received a testimony of the restored Church. He was a high school student about to run a track race in Scottsdale, Arizona, an area with a good number of Latter-day Saints, when he spotted a familiar face.
“I was at a track meet way across the valley, and I was stretching my tight hamstrings and listening to some highly motivational music getting ready to run my race,” Elder Gilbert recalls over three decades later. “I looked across the track and I saw Brother Butler [my Young Men leader] standing there. And the Spirit said, ‘This Church is true or there’s no way he would be here at your track meet.’”