16 December 2024
Enfield Council is consulting about proposals to cease providing children's centre services at Hazelwood School in Palmers Green and Raynham School in Edmonton.
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25 October 2024
Transformation of a playground at a Palmers Green primary school into a more environmentally sustainable area was celebrated this morning at a tree planting ceremony attended by the leader of Enfield Council.
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10 October 2024
A new document published as part of the process of drawing up the new Enfield Local Plan indicates that St Anne's school are proposing closing their site in Palmers Green so that it can be redeveloped for housing.
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09 July 2024
Teachers at Palmers Green High School staged a strike on Monday and Tuesday this week in protest at plans to change their pension scheme and the refusal of the school's board of governers to meet unions to discuss the proposals.
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15 April 2024
As of Monday 29th April a school street will be in operation during school arrival and departure times in the section of Highworth Road adjacent to Bowes Primary School. School streets are designed to improve the safety of children and parents when arriving and leaving school by banning cars from a zone near the school during these times.
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14 February 2024
At their open online meeting next Tuesday, Better Streets for Enfield's special guest will be the founder of Mum's for Lungs. We'll also hear about the big women's cycle ride around central London that's coming up on 3rd March and how you can get to the ride safely from Enfield and Palmers Green, thanks to trained ride marshals from Enfield Cycling Campaign and Edmonton-based London Cycling Club.
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08 November 2023
Chace Community School are consulting about proposals to regenerate the school.
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11 August 2023
Ahead of the opening of a museum in part of the historic mansion at its heart, projects to carry out further in-depth research into Trent Park's vital World War 2 intelligence-gathering role are already yielding results. In parallel, an interactive project to teach local children about the activities of the 'secret listeners' is being readied for roll-out across Enfield schools.
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17 May 2023
News about interactive sessions delving intoTrent Park's past being developed for local schools, plus a potted history of the mansion.
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21 December 2022
Pupils at Oakthorpe Primary School have donated toys and cards to young patients who will be spending Christmas in the North Middlesex Hospital.
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07 December 2022
Louisa Constanti, a governor at Hazelwood Schools, has been in touch with a request to publicise the fact that the school is looking for new people, who don't have children at Hazelwood, to join the Governing Body. She also wants to remind the community that the school has facilities that can be hired out.
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16 November 2022
A message to prospective families and community partners from the headteacher of Broomfield School, inviting them to join a focus group to discuss the school's future.
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02 November 2022
Palmers Green organisations were again among the proud recipients of Gold awards at this year's Enfield in Bloom ceremony, held this year at Chickenshed in Southgate. They went to two Friends of Broomfield Park projects - the Conservatory and the Wildlife Pond, to Anthony Webb estate agents in Green Lanes, and to Tottenhall Infant School.
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21 September 2022
The Love Your Planet competition, launching this month in Enfield primary and secondary schools, invites schoolchildren to create a poster or short video on the subject of climate change.
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24 August 2022
As Enfield Council puts in place the infrastructure for a new batch of school streets, including schemes in Hazelwood Lane and outside Bowes School, the Clean Cities Campaign asks, 'Could you do an 'active' school run?'
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01 June 2022
Enfield Council is consulting residents about its plans to introduce a further six school street schemes, including two in Palmers Green - outside Hazelwood Schools and Bowes Primary. At the times that pupils arrive at and leave schools school streets are closed to all motorised traffic other than residents and other drivers with exemptions.
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27 May 2022
Enfield Climate Action Forum will be running a competition for primary and secondary school pupils during this year's Big Green Week. To help promote the competition students from Middlesex Uni will be filming examples of best practice in teaching climate change subjects. They're seeking help in identifying suitable schools to do the filming.
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08 December 2021
At its meeting on Tuesday evening Haringey's Cabinet approved the creation of the borough's first three low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs). Work on the first to be built, Bounds Green LTN, will begin in early 2022.
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07 November 2021
The the announcement that Hazelwood Primary is one of the schools chosen for the next batch of school streets could not have been more perfectly timed, as on Friday the team behind the Hazelwood Lane Project will be submitting their ideas to the council. There's still time to sign the petition and let the council know that people want a safer and pleasanter walk to school.
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07 November 2021
Enfield's Council's deputy leader has revealed that a school street scheme will be installed outside Hazelwood Primary and should be in force by May. However, phase 2 of the Connaught Gardens LTN, which would solve chronic problems further along Hazelwood Lane, remains a more distant prospect.
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