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Category Archives: Education and schools

Rutlish pupils collect their GCSE results. Photos (l-r) Kerel Babb, George Elbogen, Daniel Ostrowski, Leader of the council Councillor Stephen Alambritis, Cabinet member for education Councillor Caroline Cooper-Marbiah, Jack Oldridge, Ben freeman John Ogunyemi, Jack Johnson and Torrential Andersen

Merton schools buck national trend with big improvement in GCSE results

25 August 2016by

Merton’s schools have bucked the national trend with big improvements to its GCSE results, just out today. The results show a jump up from the borough’s results last year and […]

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Education and schools, Young people

Council maintained schools celebrating significant improvement in A Level results

19 August 2016by

Council maintained schools in Merton are celebrating a significant improvement in A Level results, with many exceeding the national average for results this year. 

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Children, Education and schools, Young people

Rutlish School footpath to be partly closed after police safety concerns

16 August 2016by

Following a consultation in response to safety concerns from local police, Merton Council’s cabinet agreed last night to close the footpath between John Innes Park and John Innes Recreation Ground […]

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Children, Education and schools, Environment, Parks and green spaces

Merton youngsters excel at London Youth Games

27 July 2016by

This year has been a memorable one for Merton in the Balfour Beatty London Youth Games.

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Children, Education and schools, Sport and leisure, Volunteers

14,000 children to take part in Summer Reading Challenge

25 July 2016by

More children than ever have participated in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge with more than 14,000 children in Merton pledging to read six books this summer.

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Arts and culture, Children, Education and schools, Libraries, My Merton magazine
Pupils who took part in Race4Life

Merton school presents new Maxi Martin Award for services to the community

19 July 2016by

Abbotsbury Primary School in Morden held their special end of year prize giving assembly this week (18 July) to recognise their pupils’ hard work in their school subjects as well […]

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Children, Education and schools, Young people
Faith and belief groups come together in Merton to launch new Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education

Faiths come together to launch new religious education syllabus

8 July 2016by

Representatives from a number of faith and belief groups came together this week to celebrate diversity in Merton and launch the borough’s new Religious Education syllabus for 5-14 year-olds.

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Education and schools, Young people

Merton publishes new adult education courses online

7 July 2016by

Merton Council’s new programme of adult education courses for 2016/17 is now live online for adult learners to browse and book onto courses of their choice.

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Education and schools

New league table ranks Merton Council maintained schools in top three for pupil improvement

7 July 2016by

A new league table published by the Education Policy Institute ranks Merton Council’s maintained secondary schools among the best for pupil improvement in England.

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Education and schools, Young people

Primary school delighted by new Merton Council bin

7 July 2016by

A primary school is delighted with its new bin, one of three new bins provided by Merton Council after requests by members of the public.

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Children, Clean streets, Education and schools, Environment, Young people
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