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December 2023 BBC Radio 4 Today Programme School Curriculum Review Headteacher, Caroline Barlow spoke to the R4 Today Programme, alongside Lord Johnson on the topic of the Lords Select Committee report on 11-16 education, advocating for the place of the Arts in the curriculum. |
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December 2023 BBC South East Vaping in schools Students from Heathfield Community College spoke to Investigative Reporters from BBC South East about the increase in reports of vaping amongst young people and their perceptions of, how the College supports and educates students about different substances. |
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August- November 2023 APPG Boys Achievement Headteacher, Caroline Barlow contributed to the writing of the All Party Parliamentary Group report on the issue of Boys under achievement as an example of a school that had closed the gender gap and where boys attainment was equal to that of girls. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/we-must-end-the-30-year-silence-about-boys-underperformance/ |
| June 2023 BBC Sunday Politics School Funding Headteacher, Caroline Barlow appeared alongside alumni of the College Helena Dollimore (Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Hasting and Rye) discussing the impact of funding pressures on schools. |
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| May 2023 BBC Radio 4 Today programme Vaping Headteacher, Caroline Barlow speaks to Michal Husain about the impact of vaping on schools and young people. |
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| May 2023 BBC Question Time Sewage in Our Seas Year 11 student Matthew Prus took part in the BBC flagship topical debate programme Question Time and as well as forming a question on school budgets, contributed to the discussion about the release of raw sewage into our seas |
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| December 2022 LBC The Andrew Marr Show School Budgets Prior to the announcement of additional funding for schools in the Autumn Budget our headteacher spoke about the challenges of funding for schools in the climate of a cost of living crisis. |
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September 2022 BBC Radio 5 Live BBC Radio 4 World at One Energy Cap Our Headteacher spoke to the BBC about the benefits and challenges of a 6 month cap on energy prices for schools |
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July 2022 Schoolsweek Creating an RSHE curriculum fit for today’s challenges Heathfield’s proactive approach to relationship education was profiled in national education press. |
| May 2022 BBC Radio 4 World at One Education Our Headteacher spoke to the Radio 4 The World at One show about current issues in education. |
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| January 2022 BBC Radio 5 Live Return to Plan A Our Headteacher spoke to the Radio 5 Live breakfast show about the removal of face coverings in classrooms, the approach to exams and perspectives from schools at the time of this announcement. |
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| January 2022 BBC Radio 5 Live Plan B Return to College |
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| September 2021 BBC South East Student Covid Vaccinations |
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| September 2021 ITV Meridian News Successful Start to The New Term |
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| June 2021 BBC Radio 4 The World at One Peer on Peer Abuse: Everyone’s Invited and the Ofsted Report Our Headteacher spoke to BBC Radio 4 The World at One show, alongside the Schools Minister, about the findings of the peer on peer abuse report and implications for schools |
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| March 2021 BBC South East Lockdown a year on: silent reflection Students from Heathfield TV were asked by BBC South East to record and submit footage of the students of the College marking the national minute of silence for those who lost their lives in the Covid pandemic. This formed part of a regional montage that was shown in all episodes of the South East news on 23rd March. |
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March 2021 BBC South East The Return to School Students, staff and parent volunteers spoke to Lauren Moss, Political Editor for BBC South East about the return to school site, Lateral Flow Tests, Masks and learning. Heathfield Community College supported the lead story at lunchtime, the main 6.30pm news and late evening news.As part of this change to national lockdown restrictions the Headteacher also spoke to BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio 5 Live in the days leading up to the return to College. |
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January 2021 BBC Radio Sussex (Audio Only) Lockdown 3 Sixth Form student Rachel Sparrow spoke to BBC Sussex the online learning provision, facing another lockdown and the uncertainty facing exam year groups at this time. She spoke on two occasions on 4 and 5 January to the Breakfast Show hosted by Danny Pike. |
| November 2020 BBC South East Remembrance Day Students at the College marked Remembrance day with a 2 minute silence and linked the day to the theme of 2020, the service of nurses and midwives. The events at College were filmed by HTV students and featured as part of the BBC South East summary of events around the area on 11th November 2020. |
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| October 2020 Hailsham FM Vitual Open Evenings & Mornings Head of Heathfield Community College, Caroline Barlow talks with Neil Povey from Hailsham FM about the college’s arrangements for prospective parents, ahead of the 31st October application deadline for Year 7 places in 2021. |
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| September 2020 ITV Meridian News Back to School ITV Meridian visited Heathfield Community College to find out how the return to school post-lockdown had been managed. |
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| August 2020 ITV Meridian News A Level Results ITV Meridian visited Heathfield Community College to report on the awarding of 2020 A Level examination outcomes. |
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| March 2020 BBC Radio Sussex (Audio Only) Covid-19 BBC Radio Sussex explored the issues relating to Covid-19 before lockdown started |
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| February 2020 ITN Digital Generation ITN (national) vistied Heathfield to explore an Ofcom report on the Digital Generation |
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| December 2019 BBC South East My First Vote Sixth former Bayden was interviewed by BBC South East on voting for the first time in the December 2019 General Election |
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| December 2019 Sunday Politics County Funding In the light of the December 2019 General Election Sunday politics interviewed our Headteacher about the impact of school funding cuts |
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| August 2019 ITV Meridian News GCSE Results On the release of the 2019 GCSE results Heathfield students spoke of the hard work involved in securing their top grades. |
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| May 2019 The Sunday Times Inspirational Teachers “Its about believing in people before they believe in themselves” Mr Hatchard is reunited with an ex student who he inspired as part of the DfE #getintoteaching campaign. |
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| January 2019 BBC Radio Sussex (audio only) Future Careers BBC Radio Sussex profiled the Employer Mentoring scheme that is run for some students with the suport of local employers and Wealden Works |
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| January 2019 BBC South East ESCC Funding BBC South East spoke to our Headteacher and students about the impact of cuts to local authority funding |
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| June 2018 Sunday Politics The Music Service Heathfield musicians make some noise about the proposed cuts to East Sussex Music Service. |
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| February 2018 BBC Defence of the Arts BBC Education editor Branwyn Jeffries reported from Heathfield about the threat to Arts education in schools |
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February 2018 BBC News School Report DayNews Stories produced by Heathfield Students |
| July 2017 BBC PM for the day In the 2017 July General Election campaign the BBC asked “What would you do if you were PM for a day?” |
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| May 2017 BBC South East Manchester Arena Bombing Heathfield students speak about the importance of being able to discuss difficult events like the Manchester Arena bombing. |
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| February 2017 Sunday PoliticsEducation Funding In February 2017 our Heathfield Headteacher spoke to Sunday Politics about the pressure being placed on schools due to lack of education funding. Click here for full programme article |
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February 2017 BBC News School Report DayNews Stories produced by Heathfield Students |
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February 2016 BBC News School Report DayNews Stories produced by Heathfield Students |