1 shooter dead after alert at secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.: RCMP
#shooting #school #TumblerRidge #BC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/active-shooter-alert-tumbler-ridge-secondary-school-bc-live-updates-9.7083740?cmp=rss
1 shooter dead after alert at secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.: RCMP
#shooting #school #TumblerRidge #BC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/active-shooter-alert-tumbler-ridge-secondary-school-bc-live-updates-9.7083740?cmp=rss
RCMP responding to active shooter at secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
#shooting #school #TumblerRidge #BC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/active-shooter-alert-tumbler-ridge-secondary-school-bc-live-updates-9.7083740?cmp=rss
RCMP responding to active shooter at secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
#shooting #school #TumblerRidge #BC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/active-shooter-alert-tumbler-ridge-secondary-school-bc-live-updates-9.7083740?cmp=rss
[#TRADESHOW] #China #Ningbo #International #Stationery #Fair 2026 will be held from March 25 to March 27, 2026, at the Ningbo International #Conference & #Exhibition #Center. As China’s #largest professional stationery #trade #expo, the #event focuses on #office, #school, #art, and #lifestyle stationery, presenting the entire #industry #chain in one integrated #sourcing #business #platform. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/china-ningbo-international-stationery-fair-2026/
As a parent it saddens me how we've essentially eliminated the idea that children can walk to school.
When I was a child in Winnipeg there was a school patrol at nearly every intersection within the walking zone of my school; as such if you lived in the walking zone you actually walked to school.
Now as a parent in Calgary my child's school has exactly 1 cross walk with patrols, the rest of the zone is 'at your own risk'. There is even tact acknowledgement of the risk for just arraigning for my child and one of her friends to be able walk to/from school together in the 2nd grade required both children's parents to meet with the principal for 'safety reasons'.
While safety is cited as the reason for eliminating patrols I suspect the real reasons are money and politics.
Walking isn't just good exercise for children but also teaches them that there are other modes of transport than driving and that you don't need to drive everywhere.
The 52nd #HKTDC #HongKong #Toys & #Games #Fair, 17th HKTDC #HK #Baby #Products Fair, and 24th HK #International #Stationery & #School #Supplies Fair concluded at the Hong Kong #Convention and #Exhibition #Centre, #China, attracting around 82,000 #buyers from 121 countries and regions. The #events utilized a hybrid EXHIBITION+ #model combining physical #shows with #online #platforms like Click2Match for extended #business #matching until January 22. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-trade-fairs-attract-82000-global-buyers-highlighting-china-market-links/
I invite you to check our paper entitled “Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology” https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03002-8 in Nature Ecology & Evolution about the Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology #USEB we organized in 2025. We reflect on how to address problems that war brings to students and scientists.
#biology #evolution #school #science #Ukraine
Almost all school buses cancelled in eastern Ontario
School buses are only running in eastern Ontario's Kingston and Belleville area Tuesday because of a snowy forecast. All other English and French buses are cancelled.
#weather #school #easternOntario #Kingston #Belleville
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/school-bus-cancel-weather-ottawa-today-9.7082371?cmp=rss
Fredericton council agrees to sell land where province wants to build school
Fredericton city council agreed Monday to sell a parcel of land to allow the New Brunswick government to build a new elementary school in the Skyline Acres neighbourhood.
#government #school #Fredericton #SkylineAcres
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-council-new-brunswick-school-skyline-acres-9.7082160?cmp=rss
We staan in de de Volkskrant met een interview over Big Tech in de klas:
https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/big-tech-is-overal-in-het-onderwijs-maar-op-een-basisschool-in-zutphen-komen-de-amerikaanse-giganten-er-niet-in~b6dc128b/
The thread about St Leonard’s Public School; ninety years of remarkably unremarkable service
Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (those built 1872-1918) hold a particular fascination for me, one most profound where they have been “deconsecrated” and are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but soon snowballed into an alphabetical deep-dive into each.
It’s been a few months now since we last looked at one of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh”. Chapter eight of this series takes us to St Leonard’s Public School, of which you can now find no trace where it once stood, and precious little in books or online resources either. Even Forbes Street, where it once stood, is unrecognisably different these days and similar in name only.
Parish schooling in the St Leonard’s district began in 1851 in the Sabbath School behind Free St. Paul’s Church on St. Leonard’s Street. This small building – confusingly referred to locally as St Leonard’s School – served the neighbourhood under control of the Free Kirk for twenty or so years until the passage of the Education Act (Scotland) 1872. This made education between the ages of five and thirteen compulsory in Scotland and formed new area School Boards to take over the existing provision of the various Presbyterian churches, which in Edinburgh accounted for over 40% of public schooling.
Free St. Paul’s in 1959, seventeen years after deconsecration and a year after it was sold by the Corporation out of use by James Clark Secondary. The date stone, 1836, pre-dates The Disruption which formed the Free Church. Adam H. Malcolm photograph, Edinburgh and Scottish Collection of Edinburgh City Libraries.The new Edinburgh School Board thus inherited this (and many other) small, ex-church school. But with bigger priorities in other parts of the city at first it was content to just let things run as they had before. The principal change a was the introduction by the Board of “evening classes for workmen, apprentices and others“, where Mr George Robertson taught reading, dictation, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography and history from 8PM to 10PM, four nights a week at a rate of four Shillings a term. Matters changed after 1878 when the Scotch Education Department withdrew its £500-a-year grant on account of its lack of proper facilities, “awkward rooms and indifferent light” and poor ventilation (the Department was obsessed about ventilation in those days).
The Board had already resolved to build a purpose-built school for the district and now progressed this as a matter of urgency; as an interim measure new double desks were ordered to cram in additional bums-on-seats in the old building. A small, narrow site – barely over half an acre – and just to the east of the existing building was acquired between Forbes Street and St Leonard’s Lane. The Board’s house architect, Robert Wilson, prepared plans for an elongated, three-storey building with a projecting central gable block. Like other contemporary large, tall schools in the city that were squeezed into awkward blocks surrounded by tall tenements, it suffered by design from poor natural lighting and ventilation, dark and dingy playgrounds and obtrusive noise from the parallel roads. But the Board’s number one priority was building school capacity and these such considerations were further down on their list of requirements.
Comparison of the 1849 and 1893 OS Town Plans of Edinburgh, showing before and after Forbes Street was laid out and St Leonard’s Public School built on it. St Paul’s Free Kirk and the school behind it, which served as the parish school, are on St Leonard’s Street. James Clark School would later be built on the site occupied by Gibraltar Villas. Move the slider to compare. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThe formal opening ceremony of the new St Leonard’s Public School took place on Friday 16th January 1880, presided over by the Rev. Dr Adamson and members of the School Board. It was the tenth new school to be completed by the board since its formation in 1873 and was “the largest, cheapest and in every sense, the most commodious“. It had cost £10,000 (including the janitor’s house and boundary walls) and could hold 1,100 pupils at the regulation 8 square feet per child. The roll at the time of opening was 956 of whom 820 attended on average on any given day. At this time it was now felt that together with Bristo and Causewayside Public Schools – both opened three years prior – that “the educational requirements on the south-east part of the city had been fully met”.
Former St. Paul’s Free Church in 1983, prior to demolition, and St. Leonard’s Public School on the right. Via Trove.Scot SC 1508948Not everyone was happy with the Board’s newest creation. In 1889, when it was considering plans for the new Sciennes Public School, the Dean of Guild Court – the equivalent then of a municipal planning approval committee – retrospectively criticised the architectural appearance of St. Leonard’s. It further implied that the School Board “were not considering the health of the children“. In 1927 Robert Sterling Craig SSC, an outspoken independent member of the Edinburgh Education Authority (successor to the School Board) derided the school, its lower floors were “practically cellars, as the sun never enters them from one year’s end to another“.
Aerial photo of the St. Leonard’s district, early 1970s, showing St Leonard’s Public School towards the middle left, below the James Clark School which is the prominent building with the tower in the upper middle of the picture. This shows to good effect just how penned in the building was, orientated in the wrong direction to get the best of the natural daylight. Via Trove.Scot DP 622460In 1889 an extension was approved to add six further classrooms, to meet demand until Sciennes could be built. In 1901 estimates were sought for the addition of a cookery room, workshop and gymnasium for the school. Headmaster George Yule, of Blacket Avenue, died in January 1906 after a period of illness. Described as a man of “a genial and kindly disposition, highly esteemed and respected by his colleagues, and as a teacher had an excellent record” he had been in charge of the school since 1888. He was replaced by a former assistant, James Clark, who was then head at Causewayside Public School. Clark retired in 1921 having spent 39 of his 41 years in teaching at the school.
St. Leonard’s Public School, a class in 1921. The boy on the extreme left in the front row, with the striped tie, is Andrew Archibald, who wrote memories of the area for the Edinburgh Evening News.In 1913 workshops were added for “instruction of tinsmiths, metal workers, tailors, upholsterers and masons“. These were “Supplementary” courses (i.e. specialist trades education beyond the age of 11) only open to boys; Girls could go to Causewayside Public School but were restricted to taking domestic courses. In 1924, newspaper adverts record that St Leonard’s was offering evening “cutting-out classes for women”, i.e. translating patterns for clothing onto fabric for sewing into garments. The school otherwise seems to have led a life most remarkable for how unremarkable it was.
St Leonard’s Public School in 1959, by which time it was the annexe for James Clark School. Photo taken from the south end of Forbes Street where it meets St Leonard’s Lane, showing just how penned in the building was on all sides by tenements. Adam H. Malcolm photograph, Edinburgh and Scottish Collection of Edinburgh City Libraries.Things continued in this fashion until 1927 when the Corporation began clearing the worst of the old and overcrowded slums in the district in earnest. There was some rebuilding in the area with new council house tenements at Richmond Place, the Pleasance, East Crosscauseway, Gifford Park and St. Leonards Street, but this was at a much lower density than what it replaced and thus much of the displaced population were rehoused a mile south in the Prestonfield Housing Scheme or much further east to Niddrie Mains. Families with children were moved out as a priority and as a result school rolls in the area began to decline sharply; it was reported to be at a rate of 10% annual decline.
Photograph taken in advance of the St Leonard’s Improvement Scheme in 1927 by A. H. Rushbrook. It shows the rear of 33 East Crosscauseway which was condemned for demolition. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.Davie Street School had already closed in 1918 to become an annexe of the James Clark School and the half-empty Causewayside Public School followed in 1924 to relocate St. Columba’s Roman Catholic School there. This reduction in capacity could not keep up with the falling demand and so St Leonard’s shut for the last time at the end of the summer term in 1931, its fiftieth year. With a brand new “Sunshine School” at Prestonfield opening after the holidays, the vast majority of its remaining pupils were set to dissapear. Those children who did not relocate were transferred to Preston Street. Bristo Public School, described by Corporation as “one of the worst” of its schools, was not far behind and shut in 1934.
The inner courtyard of the new Prestonfield School in 1932, a “Sunshine School” that prioritised maximum amounts of natural daylight and ventilation. Note the all-round verandah and the folding glass doors to allow light and fresh air into every classroom. The dormer windows provided additional natural lighting into the classrooms from above. Its low-slung design on a large plot, arranged around a pleasant central courtyard, was the antithesis of the St Leonard’s Public School that it replaced.With a large, empty building on its hands, in November 1931 the Education Committee approved a recommendation to convert the it into an annexe for the neighbouring James Clark Intermediate School (no relation to headmaster James Clark of St Leonard’s). This involved refurbishing nine classrooms, providing two new art rooms, teaching spaces for benchwork, sewing, laundry and cookery, adding a new gymnasium with changing rooms and showers and a medical room. A completely new heating system and boiler house was added and new electric lighting installed throughout. These changes allowed the benchwork and art classrooms in the main James Clark building to be converted into science laboratories. Tenders were sought for this work in April 1932 and the building was ready for the next stage of its life and the start of the 1932-33 term.
Scotsman, 23rd November 1931With a new function, once again the building on Forbes Street settled down to a remarkably unremarkable life, quietly getting on with things and following the waxing and waning fortunes of its parent school. In something of a coincidence, Free St. Paul’s would return to educational use when it was temporarily used by James Clark as a further annexe and dining hall between 1942-48 and again between 1954-58. After exactly fifty years as an Elementary school, it would serve exactly forty years in Intermediate (later rebranded Junior Secondary) service. It closed along with James Clark in 1972 due to the forces of a hugely declining school roll and the move from two-tier to comprehensive schooling that saw the Corporation rid itself of most of its non-purpose built old Junior Secondaries.
Drainage plan for St Leonards School in 1932 when it was converted to an annexe for the James Clark School. Notice that the toilet block is in the playground, top left, the workshop block on the left and the new boiler block below the word “School” of “St Leonard’s School”. City of Edinburgh Council DG46-171Around the time of its closure, six separate compulsory purchase orders issued in 1969 and 1971 would clear most of the rest of the old housing and industries in the Forbes Street, St Leonard’s Street and St Leonard’s Hill area for redevelopment. In 1984 Lothian Regional Council demolished the former school but whole plot remained vacant until 1986 when the remaining surrounding wasteland was purchased by Edinburgh District Council through compulsory purchase. The long-promised new housing was finally built along with a new St Leonard’s Police Station. Forbes street in the process was truncated from a through road to a cul-de-sac accessed off of St Leonard’s Lane. This scheme controversially also demolished the listed, 150-year old St. Paul’s Free Kirk, which it had been intended to protect, removing two generations of local educational establishments from the map.
Forbes Street, 2022, now a cul-de-sac on a different alignment and home to a modern, mixed-density housing development. View from St Leonard’s Hill looking northwest across what would have been the old School.If you have found this useful, informative or amusing, perhaps you would like to help contribute towards the running costs of this site – including keeping it ad-free and my book-buying budget to find further stories to bring you – by supporting me on ko-fi. Or please do just share this post on social media or amongst friends.
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An abandoned school in the USA. My favourite areas were the classrooms with the adorable tiny chairs! The old chapel was also interesting, with the colourful Sacred Heart stained glass ❤️🔥
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/education/st-valentines-church-and-school-usa/
A new school for girls in India stays cool in 120 degree desert heat without air conditioning
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rajkumari-ratnavati-girls-school
Shooting threat posted on Facebook forces Winnipeg high school to cancel classes
A high school in Winnipeg's North End cancelled classes Monday after a shooting threat was posted on social media.
#safety #school #Winnipeg #NorthEnd
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/shooting-threat-posted-on-facebook-forces-winnipeg-high-school-to-cancel-classes-9.7080758?cmp=rss
CVE Alert: CVE-2026-2189 - itsourcecode - School Management System - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2026-2189-itsourcecode-school-management-system/
#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2026-2189 #itsourcecode #school-management-system
CVE Alert: CVE-2026-2190 - itsourcecode - School Management System - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2026-2190-itsourcecode-school-management-system/
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"#RoedeanSchool, a top #Johannesburg private girls’ school, is facing allegations of #antisemitism after its first-team #tennis side refused to play scheduled tennis matches against players from #KingDavidLinksfield (#KDL) because they were #Jewish.
The incident has sparked outrage, forced high-level inter-#school engagements, and raised alarming questions about alleged #discrimination taking place at the school. It has also ignited antisemitism online.
The SA Jewish Report has in its possession a verified recording of a conversation that took place between King David Principal #LorraineSrage and a member of #Roedean’s staff, in which the latter explains that the school is under pressure from its parent body not to play KDL.
She told #Srage, “We are facing a bit of pressure from our community and our constituents regarding not playing against #KingDavid. So It’s almost like what’s happening out in society is now affecting us at school level.”.
https://www.sajr.co.za/sinister-game-roedean-ducks-antisemitism-allegation-in-tennis-row/
