September 2022 Secondary School Placements To Be Announced

September 2022 Secondary School Placements To Be Announced
March 1, 2023

Parents and carers of Year 6 children in East Riding will find out in September which secondary school their children will attend.

A total of 3,584 applications were submitted to East Riding of Yorkshire Council, most of which were made online – an increase of 3.2% from last year – and 3,441 places were offered to students according to their first preference.

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Number of Children Offered First Choice Secondary School Increases

Number of Children Offered First Choice Secondary School Increases
March 2, 2022

The proportion of Year 6 children in the East Riding who have been awarded their first preference of secondary school for September 2022 has risen again this year to 97%.

Parents and carers across the East Riding, as well as nationally, will find out which secondary school their children will attend in the next academic year, which starts in September.

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Rollits Recruits Highlight Career Path For Local Legal Talent

Rollits Recruits Highlight Career Path For Local Legal Talent
January 26, 2022

A leading law firm is celebrating the talent on its own doorstep as it builds for the future by putting local people at the heart of its recruitment strategy.

Rollits LLP revealed that nine lawyers joined the firm during 2021 and most have either grown up in the region or graduated from the University of Hull.

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Beverley High School Headteacher Proud of Ofsted Recognition

Beverley High School Headteacher Proud of Ofsted Recognition
January 7, 2022

A Beverley secondary school whose pupils “leave school very well prepared for life in modern Britain” has been judged as outstanding following a recent Ofsted inspection.

Ofsted inspectors visited Beverley High School in November and judged them to be outstanding in all areas which include the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and sixth form provision.

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MBE For Former Beverley High School Student

MBE For Former Beverley High School Student
January 1, 2022

A former Beverley High School student who works globally to help governments tackle challenges including pandemics, terrorism, corruption, war crimes and modern slavery has been awarded the MBE for services to international trade.

Helen Gibson, Managing Director of Agencia, credited her family and colleagues for their part in earning the honour, which recognises the company’s activities in some of the world’s trouble spots.

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Beverley’s Universities: What To Choose And How To Write Your Annotated Bibliography For Application

Beverley's Universities: What To Choose And How To Write Your Annotated Bibliography For Application
March 26, 2021

Writing an annotated bibliography for university applications requires you to use a variety of skills, including analytical and library research skills. Annotations are usually subjective and they aim to summarize and evaluate research materials.

Annotated bibliography requires you to locate and record the citations to periodicals and books that may have useful information related to your topic. Annotations can help you to gain insights into research skills. Annotated bibliography for application to Beverley’s universities is done in the following ways.

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Graham Stuart MP Sings Praises Of Local Schools

Graham Stuart MP Sings Praises Of Local Schools
February 11, 2021

MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has sung the praises of schools across his constituency – offering his thanks to teachers, teaching assistants, governors, and parents and pupils themselves for their resilience and flexibility during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Boss Goes Back To School To Help Beverley Students Plan Their Careers

Boss Goes Back To School To Help Beverley Students Plan Their Careers
October 20, 2020

The boss of an award-winning business is using webinar experiences sharpened under lockdown to help students at her old school prepare for the world of work.

Girls at Beverley High School are learning from the career of Helen Gibson, Managing Director of Agencia Consulting, as part of a move to help students plan their futures and to assist the school itself with developing its careers strategy.

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Beverley High School Make Final Of CyberFirst Girls Competition

Beverley High School Make Final Of CyberFirst Girls Competition
March 10, 2020

Cyber savvy girls from Beverley High School are preparing to take on the best teams from the rest of the UK in an attempt to be crowned the nation’s codebreaking champions.

The pupils, aged 12 and 13, saw off challengers from northern England last month to reach the CyberFirst Girls Competition final. They will now take on the nine best teams from the rest of the UK.

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Most East Yorkshire Children Award First Choice Secondary School Place

Most East Yorkshire Children Award First Choice Secondary School Place
March 2, 2020

More than 95% of Year 6 children resident in the East Riding have been awarded places for the school named by their parents/carers as their first preference in the 2020/21 secondary school admissions round.  

Letters to parents/carers informing them of the outcome of their applications for secondary school places in September 2020, are being sent out today, Monday 2nd March.  This is known as ‘National Offer Day’ and is the date that all local authorities in England send the results of applications to parents/carers.

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CyberFirst Girls Competition Wins Backing Of Local MP

October 25, 2019

Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has written to schools in Beverley and Holderness to encourage them to get involved in the National Cyber Security Centre’s CyberFirst Girls’ Competition.

Created in 2016 as part of the Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy to respond to evolving digital threats to the country’s infrastructure, the NCSC runs CyberFirst; which is a series of freely available short cyber courses aimed at teaching children aged 11-17 about cybersecurity.

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