• Kids win free entry to airport open day

  By Open_Day at 19:52 on 05/08/11

  

  Kids' recycled planes win tickets to airport open day   The pupils of Oaklands Primary School in Biggin Hill have been hard at work turning recycled materials into model aeroplanes in order to win Family Tickets to Biggin Hill Airport Family Open Day on September 10th. They have been drawing, writing, cutting and sticking, colouring-in and their teachers have been judges, awarding one family in every class a family ticket to the...

• Greenwich University Could Create a 'Living' Living Space

  By MissSiany at 15:34 on 08/11/10

  

  Now, this is going to get complicated (science is not my forte), but it seems that the University of Greenwich have made the news again. This time for their School of Architecture & Construction. According to Softpedia, they could create a living house, effectively covering houses with eco-friendly materials to fight climate change. The materials would effectively protect the buildings with a 'coral like skin'. Basically, this...

• Greenwich Students are the most satisfied in London

  By MissSiany at 13:41 on 15/09/10

  

  Well this is interesting. According to Docklands magazine, Students at Greenwich University are more satisfied than the rest of the capital. They've come in 26th in a national league table, putting them higher than any other university in London on factors such as teaching and personal development. Medical science and pharmacy are the top degree subjects (which is impressive, I think they're taught on the not very pretty Avery Hill...

• What are the best schools in the area?

  By MissSiany at 18:21 on 27/08/10

  

  It's official: GCSE results in Greenwich are better than they were last year. Woohoo! 49.8% of pupils in the area received 5 A*-C grades. That's up by 6% whereas Lewisham is up by 1% with their total at 48%. It's a record for the borough, and that's pretty exciting. The official results for the rest of the UK haven't all been confirmed, so I can't say where we're at in comparison, but I think the fact that we're up on last year ...

• The Local GCSE results - are they getting easier?

  By MissSiany at 15:47 on 24/08/10

  

  It's been a hectic day for local teenagers. The GCSEs are undoubtedly with most stressful time of a young adults' life (until they get to do it all over again when it comes to A-levels, how lovely). The results were in today and it looks like the locals have fared pretty well. How well? Alas the Greenwich schools are being rather coy at the moment (hopefully more from them soon). But, here are a few impressive results from the...

View more…