SCHOOLS and colleges are celebrating record A-level results despite a year of disruption as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Almost 45 per cent of all entr.
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TWO new pedestrian crossings are to be installed in Henley following a campaign by residents and councillors.
Oxfordshire County Council, the highways authority, has agreed to provide a “puffin” light-controlled signal crossing in Marlow Road and a zebra crossing in Gravel Hill.
The former, costing £26,000, will go near the entrance to the Swiss Farm camping and caravan site while the latter, costing £35,000, will be built near the junction of Hop Gardens, which is a popular route for pupils walking to Badgemore Primary School.
The crossings will be paid for by the county council and Henley Town Council respectively and should be installed by the end of the year.
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Schools will re-open on Monday, March 8 as the Government gradually eases the coronavirus restrictions.
Only the children of key workers and those considered to be vulnerable have been in school since the third national began in January and staff have had to have coronavirus tests twice a week.
Other pupils and their teachers have reverted to remote learning at home.
Gillotts School in Henley has been looking after 30 to 35 pupils each day.
Headteacher Catharine Darnton said the school had learned important lessons from the first lockdown last year.
She said: “Of course, we want all our students back with us as soon as that is deemed to be the right course of action in terms of case rates and pressures on the NHS.”