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Rush Green Primary School has been awarded the School Games Gold Award for the work they did during the 2018/19 academic year.
Launched in 2012, the Government-led award scheme, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust, rewards schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and in the community.
Pen to Print is Barking and Dagenham’s Creative Writing Programme, part funded by the Arts Council and has been running in the borough since 2014. The Readers Evening marks the end of Barking and Dagenham Libraries eighth successful free literary festival ReadFest.
Phony perfumes, counterfeit clothes and fake Apple AirPods were part of goods worth more than £50,000 that were seized in a raid by Barking and Dagenham Council.
Trading Standards officers also found a number of hidden knives in the property after swooping on an address on Whalebone Grove, Dagenham.
Boxing classes, the chance to train like a firefighter and educational first aid courses are just some of the schemes being delivered to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in Barking and Dagenham.
There will also be interactive performance workshops in schools to highlight and discuss how local communities are impacted by illegal activities.
Representatives from the voluntary and charity sector in Barking and Dagenham joined the council in renewing their commitment to the Armed Forces Community by re-signing the Armed Forces Covenant.
Black History Month comes to Barking and Dagenham this October, as the borough gets set for a jam-packed schedule of events to celebrate the history, achievements and culture of Black and Minority Ethnic people.
Black History Month comes to Barking and Dagenham this October, as the borough gets set for a jam-packed schedule of events to celebrate the history, achievements and culture of Black African and Caribbean people.
Is your child due to start secondary school in September 2020? If so, you have just over a month to apply for a secondary school place for them.
That means children born between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 will be making the big step next year and you only have until Thursday 31 October to apply.
Late applications mean parents are much less likely to secure a place for their child at their preferred school.
ReadFest is Barking and Dagenham’s very own literary festival, which aims to deliver a wide-range of local, national and internationally acclaimed writers especially chosen to entertain and inform.
Barking and Dagenham Libraries and Pen to Print are proud to host the eighth annual literary festival which takes place between Monday 9 September and Friday 27 September. Supporting Pen to Print’s theme this year, International Storytelling, they are delighted to showcase multinational writers, all based in the UK.
Barking and Dagenham Council’s Legal Services have successfully obtained a further ‘borough wide unauthorised encampment injunction’. Working with Caroline Bolton, of Radcliffe Chambers, who obtained the first such injunction for Harlow, the London council assisted Thurrock Council in obtaining its own interim injunction on 3 September 2019.
