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Top marks for pre-school

PERTH and Kinross Council has welcomed the publication of a Care Commission inspection report for Crieff Road Pre-School Centre in Perth, which gave the nursery school top marks for all areas inspected.Read

Take your partners for a worthy cause

FANS of traditional Scottish dancing are in for a treat next week as the Big National Ceilidh comes to Breadalbane Academy.Read

A study of youth is put on record

A UNIQUE snapshot of Big County youth has revealed how many youngsters feel undervalued by their communities and let down by their schools.Read

Perth High pupils seize school prize

TEAMS from schools throughout Perth and Kinross were at the George Duncan Arena in Perth on Sunday to take part in the first S1 schools’ team athletic competition.Read

Pupils take trip to Nazi death camp

MP Pete Wishart joined a band of youngsters on an emotional visit to the notorious Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.Read

Student take-over

TWO Perthshire students played an important role at Dundee College’s awards.Read

Leader responds to education concerns

COUNCIL leader Ian Miller highlighted the investment in new schools across Perthshire after coming under fire from rivals on the education issue.Read

Swinney praises school’s Eco efforts

JOHN Swinney visited the Strone of Cally Primary School this week to congratulate pupils and Headteacher, Yvonne Mackenzie, for achieving an Eco Schools green flag.Read

Pupils’ game of 32 halfs

GEORGE Burley’s Scotland side may be unable to stomach a 90-minute contest in Iceland, but a group of Breadalbane Academy pupils have shown a greater appetite for the beautiful game by playing for an entire 24 hours.Read

Communal greenfingers at school

A GROUP of green-finger Breadalbane Academy pupils have begun sowing the seeds of success after completing the construction of a communal garden.Read

Schools to share head teachers

A GROUND-BREAKING pilot scheme, which would see two sets of small rural Perthshire primary schools sharing a head teacher, looks set to start next month.Read

Good teaching let down by a poor building

INSPECTORS have branded two-thirds of the classrooms at a small Perthshire Primary School as “unsuitable for modern learning.”Read

School set to expand

CHILDREN at a Strathearn school could be set to get more space after moves to add a classroom were revealed.Read

Horror crash at Gilmerton

INVESTIGATIONS into a near fatal crash on the A85 were continuing yesterday.Read

Career advice available for teenage students

IF your son or daughter has just moved into fifth or sixth year at school in the Perth and Kinross area, Careers Scotland is organising an information evening.Read

Primary concerns on flit to secondary

VOLUNTEER counsellors at ChildLine in Scotland are ready to lend a listening ear to Perth and Kinross pupils who may be apprehensive about making the move from primary to secondary school.Read

Nursery’s positive ethos impresses inspectors

A REPORT into a Perth nursery shows inspectors are fairly pleased with what they found.Read

Vandals cover school walls in hatred

SHOCKING graffiti daubed on the walls of a Perth primary school has been branded “despicable” by police.Read

Get together with old school pals at a special reunion

DID you spend your first year at Secondary up at the “old” High School in 1970/71 then continue your education at the “new” High School up at Oakbank?Read

Perth and Kinross Council

Schools charges 'illegal'

PERTH and Kinross Council was accused yesterday of ripping-off local housebuilders by demanding hundreds of thousands of pounds in illegal payments towards education provision in schools at or near capacity.Read

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