Education

A Melton primary school is to hold an open morning to show visitors how pupils are expanding their vocabulary and improving their writing skills through an innovative new curriculum.

Council officials have been accused of stranding elderly people in rural areas and consigning students to late journeys home as a result of changes they have made to six bus services in the Melton area.

A Melton mum says she will be left out of pocket and her four children’s education will be disrupted as a result of their school being used as a polling station for next month’s General Election.

A couple who run a farm at Somerby said they were ‘shocked and delighted’ to win a prestigious award which recognises business excellence in rural areas.

Tributes have been paid to talented trumpeter, Don Blakeson, who played with top orchestras, on the records of superstars such as Shirley Bassey and Rod Stewart and on soundtracks for Hollywood movies before teaching Melton schoolchildren how to play instruments in his retirement.

A programme of activities will be held in Melton on Thursday to support the mental health of residents.

Melton schoolchildren poignantly sang patriotic Polish songs at a service at Saltby Airfield to honour paratroopers from Poland who flew from there to fight in the Second World War.

The death of a 20-year-old Tilton on the Hill man in a university initiation-style bar crawl almost three years ago is being used as a warning to freshers about the dangers of drinking too much.

Two schools in Melton and five from nearby villages have joined a scheme designed to make drivers park more safely and considerately on roads outside their gates.

Boys at secondary schools across the Melton borough are this week, for the first time, being given a vaccination which protects against various forms of cancer.

Around 200 descendants of a brave band of Second World War paratroopers gathered at Burrough on the Hill on Saturday to see the unveiling of a lasting memorial in their honour.

Parents and carers across the Melton borough with children due to start secondary school next year are being encouraged to apply for a place ahead of next month’s deadline.

Melton’s first ever ‘climate change teacher’ has started teaching pupils this term about the key environmental issues which will affect their lives.

Parents interested in enrolling their children at Melton’s Oasis Pre-School are invited to an open afternoon next week.

Almost half of all GCSE grades achieved by students at Ratcliffe College this year were between seven and nine - the eqivalent of the old A* and A standard.

Among a ‘phenomenal’ set of GCSE results at Priory Belvoir Academy today (Thursday) was the eight top grades and A* distinction in further maths attained by Hannah Trigg.

Students at Long Field Academy achieved GCSE results this year which were described as ‘fabulous’ by principal Chris Haggett.