Archive for Sands School News

Term Dates 2013/14

(Non-pupil days 4th and 5th of September) Autumn term starts 9.09.2013 Half term  21.10.2013 to 1.11.2013 Term ends 13.12.2013 (Non-pupil day 3rd of January) Spring term starts 6.01. 2014 Half term 17.2.2014 to 21.2.2014 Term ends 4.04. 2014 (Non-pupil day – to be confirmed) Summer term starts 28.04.2014 Half term 26.05.2014 to 30.05.2014 Term ends [...]

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School should be like U3A, not a transit camp for kids

The problem with British education is that it was built by a generation indoctrinated schoolboy public school literature – Billy Bunter, Tom Brown’s schooldays, The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s. Modern Education stems largely from the 1902 Education Act, whose driving force was Winchester and Oxford educated civil servant Robert Morant. That is the starting point for [...]

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No phone or internet

Due to a massive lightning strike in the town we have no phone line or internet, and so can’t answer phonecalls or emails. Please be patient for a few days while we wait for BT to fix the problem.

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