School

Saturday's event featured Punch and Judy, donkey rides, coconut shy, penalty shootout, pottery painting, dance displays – and the head in the stocks!

28 pupils, mostly aged 9, swam 40 lengths each of the Grange Paddocks pool for Swimathon 2022 in aid of Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie.

Avanti Meadows Primary, which opened at St Michael’s Hurst last September, gave visitors an insight into its educational philosophy.

Hockerill College's Charmon Lam beat 133 other young instrumentalists and singers aged up to 18 in the contest organised by the Rotary club.

Linda Strachan, who represented GB at Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992, visited Birchanger Primary and Howe Green House schools.

Pupils from seven Stortford schools combined verse, drama and oracy as they brought poetry to life in the contest at South Mill Arts.

Of the 13,791 applications for reception places received by the county council, 13,473 (97.7%) have been offered one of their four ranked schools.

Students, parents and staff at the London Road secondary collected more than 70 chocolate Easter eggs for the town's food bank.

Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch also saw herself on Birchanger Primary's 'Best of British' wall of inspirational black and Asian role models.

Anastasiia Laletina, 19, pulled out of the biathlon middle-distance sitting final after learning her dad was taken prisoner and beaten last month.

This term, their most notable accomplishment came in the international finals' day at the world-famous Oxford Union.

Non-uniform days raise £3,550 and students, staff and parents respond to appeals for humanitarian aid for victims of Russian invasion.

Children and adults at Thorley Hill Primary School took part in Wear a Hat Day in aid of Brain Tumour Research.

The event, by the head of pre-prep Belinda Callow and her team, will focus on sharing a "toolbox" of skills that children would benefit from having.

The 13.1-mile run along the Flitch Way by Bishop's Stortford College staff in aid of British-Ukrainian Aid was organised by Lucia Sanchez.

Taylor Wimpey North Thames, which is building Coopers Grange at Patmore Close, challenged Little Hadham Primary children to paint bird boxes.

Eight teams of four from five Stortford secondary schools took part in the contest with its University Challenge-style format.

William and Annabelle Rands, both pupils at Bishop's Stortford College, helped to raise almost £700 for the British Red Cross.

Oscar Blair, 18, started shooting six years ago with his father's old camera and now hopes to do documentary photography at university.

School office administrator Helen Wardle spotted the Indie's plea for donations for women and children fleeing war-torn Ukraine.