Education

A charity which supports adults and young people with learning and physical disabilities is appealing for help after its kitchen garden and outdoor field study areas at Burrough-on-the-Hill were badly damaged by Storm Ciara on Sunday.

The number of penalty notices issued to parents in the Melton borough for children being absent from school without permission has more than quadrupled in the last two years.

He played an important part in the lives of generations of Melton children as a school teacher and a Scout leader and some of them were in the town’s St Mary’s Church on Friday to pay their last respects to Trevor Wright alongside his family members, friends and former colleagues.

A Melton service which helps vulnerable residents to become digitally, financially and socially independent has been hailed as one of the best of its kind in the UK by one of the county’s high-ranking ceremonial representatives.

The number of Leicestershire young people requiring special educational needs and disability support (SEND) has risen to record levels.

It’s usually the students who get nervous before exams but Long Field Academy assistant principal Sharon Maloney got a taste of exactly what they go through when she secretly sat a GSCE in school.

Students and staff at a Melton school have made more than 100 pouches for baby animals affected by the terrible wildfires in Australia.

Children are much more active across the Melton borough, according to the results of a new survey.

A Melton man who has been treated for prostate cancer is supporting a move to establish a new screening technique for the disease which is more accurate and less invasive for patients.

Melton schoolchildren have put on a special play telling the story of how Catholic education started in the town with a tiny school for just four children in Sherrard Street 120 years ago.

Parents and carers in the Melton borough are being reminded that the deadline for applying for primary school places is coming up next week.

Views are being sought on proposals which would see a proportion of the Council Tax bill for Melton borough residents increase by 3.99 per cent.

Melton’s Birch Wood really is a special school in every sense.

Staff at an Asfordby Hill business are celebrating after their popular workshops showing people how to make authentic Melton Mowbray pork pies scooped a coveted tourism award.

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.