Schools/colleges

EXPULSION rates in Hounslow secondary schools are double the national average - according to Government figures.

Seventy pupils were excluded from the borough's secondary schools in the 2007/8 school year - about one in 250 children.

A desperate father has appealed for his missing teenage son to get in touch.

Kingsley Platt, 14, disappeared from his home on Tuesday morning last week.

A much-loved lollipop lady was given a rousing send-off by youngsters at Hounslow Heath Infant & Nursery School.

Shirley Geoghegan has hung up her stick after more than 12 years spent helping children to and from the school in Martindale Road, Hounslow.

Charles Darwin's incredible beard-growing achievements were celebrated by staff and pupils at The Heathland School on Thursday last week.

Pupils at the school in Wellington Road South, Hounslow, tucked into 'evolutionary pastries' and a cake with 200 candles as they marked the bicentenary of the great man's birth.

Pupils and teachers at St Mark's Catholic School are celebrating an 'outstanding' Ofsted report after hitting all the right notes with inspectors.

The secondary school in Bath Road, Hounslow, last month, was awarded top marks for all 23 areas on which it was judged in the report, published today.

Generous youngsters at Lampton School battled it out for the honour of giving away £3,000.

Pupils at the secondary school in Hounslow had to persuade judges their chosen charities were the most deserving.

More than 120 youngsters braved sub-zero temperatures on Sunday to compete for a place at the Adidas Mini London Marathon.

Eleven to 17-year-olds from across the borough ran two circuits of Hounslow's Lampton Park, covering a total of 5km, as they sought one of 48 places up for grabs for the big event in April.

Two primary schools in Hounslow are set to take on extra classes of 30 pupils as education chiefs attempt to cope with an explosion in birth rates.

Chatsworth Infant & Nursery and Chatsworth Junior, which are due to be merged, and Hounslow Town Primary, are among 10 schools across the borough which could accept more pupils as part of proposals to create up to 285 new places.

A former teacher has been honoured for his efforts to inspire the business leaders of the future.

Garth Buckle, of Hounslow, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to young people.

Youngsters from St Michael & St Martin Catholic Primary School entertained elderly residents by performing a traitional nativity play.

Pupils dressed as angels, shepherds and wise men visited Cloisters care home in Bath Road, Hounslow, this week.