Takeover Challenge Healthy Eating: an interview with Hannah Brown from An Ear To Hear
Hannah Brown has built her own company, ‘AnEarToHear’, with the aim to help those with an eating disorder feel they can talk about...
Bedford Independent set up its online news desk at St. Thomas More school this morning as part of Teen Takeover Day 2018 and its ongoing mission to inspire Bedford's future journalists...
Mark Rutherford School's Spaceflight team has taken photos from 35km up - the edge of space.
A huge weather balloon filled with helium was launched and landed safely after reaching the Earth's stratosphere and taking photos.
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Bedford Independent has learned that seven teachers have resigned from schools involved in the planned restructure of schools under Heart Multi Academies Trust (MAT), due to what Trade Unions have called ”the appalling way the...
Claire Smith, the CEO of Heart Multi Academy Trust, who was at the forefront of a controversial plan to restructure three Bedford schools, has resigned.
The news comes just a week after the resignation of the...
The Shortstown Shackleton Cauldwell (SSC) Action Group has welcomed the resignation of Hanif Patel as Chair of the Board for the Heart Multi Academies Trust (MAT).
The SSC Group and Heart MAT are currently in mediation...
Bedford's Mayor, Dave Hodgson, has said schools across Bedford Borough are facing a combined cut of £1.3m as their budgets are slashed by central government.
In a statement issued today, the town's Mayor said that the...
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Students and staff at Bedford Modern School are each remembering a former pupil who fought in World War One to mark 100 years since its end.
Each person at the school has been given one of 1,100 lanyards, with details...
Parents and children caught up in a shakeup of schools under the Heart Multi Academies Trust have spent the day speaking with the Shadow Education Secretary, Angela Rayner about their concerns.
Heart MAT have proposed a restructure of Shackleton, Shortstown...
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A public meeting held by Heart Multi Academies Trust descended into chaos last night, as parents quizzed CEO Claire Smith over the decision to restructure staff at Shortstown, Shackleton and Cauldwell schools, and failed to...
GCSE results for the 2017/18 academic year have shown that 63.7% of Bedford Borough students reached the required standard in English and Maths at Grade 4 and above (standard pass) and 41.1% reached the required...
When the Kitchen Manager at Queens Park Academy anticipated they’d be short staffed for a couple of weeks, she knew just who to ask for help.
Ileana Stein, who has headed up QPA’s school kitchen since January called...