Read More 3 minute read Education Theatre West Putney From nervous child to West End stage: the Putney teacher making it happen Alice Sheffield wins national award for transforming young performers' confidence. byClelia FrondaroliDecember 11, 2025
Read More 3 minute read Education Four schools closed, Putney next in line for cuts New council papers spell out 60-90 fewer Reception places by end of decade. byKieren McCarthyDecember 1, 2025
Read More 6 minute read Education Politics Headteacher denied right to defend Bradstow as Labour rushes closure Committee finds false claims and hidden documents but votes 3-2 to ignore evidence. byKieren McCarthyNovember 20, 2025
Read More 2 minute read Education Roehampton New SEND school opens – but what happens to the old Roehampton building? £41m facility brings 64 specialist places as Lennox Estate residents left waiting for answers. bySarah Putney-ClarkeNovember 8, 2025
Read More 9 minute read Education Politics Bradstow: The special needs school nobody wanted to save – least of all those who said they did Speeches, blocking, and quadrupled debt. How two councils spent four years ensuring closure while claiming to fight for survival. byKieren McCarthyNovember 4, 2025
Read More 2 minute read Education Roehampton New £6m engineering centre opens in Roehampton to train next generation of green builders Dorothy Buchanan Building aims to tackle UK’s desperate shortage of workers needed to hit 2050 climate targets. byPutney.news reporterOctober 19, 2025
Read More 4 minute read Education No sense of direction — geographic or moral — at Wandsworth Council in absurd SEND case Officials mistook a 15-mile college trip for a two-mile stroll, leaving a disabled teenager’s family to foot the bill. bySarah Putney-ClarkeOctober 15, 2025
Read More 5 minute read Education When the children leave: inside Wandsworth’s school-funding death spiral As middle-class families leave and refugee children arrive, schools are caught in a vicious cycle of falling income and rising costs. bySenior reporterOctober 15, 2025
Read More 2 minute read Community Education Race against the rain: Brandlehow’s £20,000 roof appeal As water drips into classrooms, parents fight to protect both pupils and a piece of London’s modernist history. byKieren McCarthyOctober 7, 2025
Read More 3 minute read Education Planning Southfields Community rallies behind Riversdale School’s bold new plans Southfields landmark faces crucial decision on new classrooms overlooking Coronation Gardens. bySarah Putney-ClarkeAugust 31, 2025