Whiteley and Sarisbury pupils to get dictionaries for life

Dictionary 4 Life given to Whiteley Primary School children in 2009

School children in Whiteley and Sarisbury Green will be learning a host of new words thanks to the Whiteley Rotary Club’s Dictionary 4 Life scheme. The club has raised cash and received funding from Fareham Borough Council to provide 200 Year 6 pupils at Whiteley Primary and Sarisbury Junior schools with the dictionaries. The Usborne [...]

Three Western Wards schools shut by strike action

Three schools in the Western Wards are closed today (June 30) as part of the national day of action by public sector employees. Brookfield School, Park Gate Primary and St Anthony’s Primary School in Titchfield Common are closed as a result of the national strike action by teachers. Those schools in the Western Wards that [...]

Schools to be closed by teachers’ walk-out

Brookfield School will be closed next Thursday (June 30) as a result of national strike action by teachers – one of just two schools in the Western Wards expected to be affected by the action. Park Gate Primary School will also be closed for the day, while St Anthony’s Primary School in Titchfield Common has [...]

Whiteley school picnic benches wrecked by vandals

pic of the damaged benches

Picnic benches used by children at Whiteley School have been wrecked by vandals causing damage estimated at £4,000 – and it is believed former pupils could be responsible. Police are now investigating the damage caused on three occasions during the half term holiday and have the names of a number of teenagers that they will [...]

Decision this week on new Whiteley Academy

A group campaigning for Hampshire’s first free school is planning to decide this week if they have enough backing from parents to apply to the government for the academy school. The Whiteley Academy Group has been consulting with parents and prospective parents who would make use of the proposed school in Whiteley – and they [...]

Rotary Club music festival tunes up some winners

Pic of Stan McKenzie

The Rotary Club of Locks Heath held its annual Inter Schools Music Festival at Brookfield Community School. The early part of the evening was for choirs, and the second half comprised ensembles and soloists. The winners received a shield, and a cash prize for their school. As always the standard of the young musicians was [...]

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