Schools/colleges

A young North Paddington student has scooped top prize in a public speaking competition.

Dina El-Deeb, 15, of Paddington Academy, in Marylands Road, won the Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea regional final of Jack Petchey's Speak Out! Challenge.

Young and old enjoyed afternoon tea and gifts thanks to a clever idea from Bayswater pupils.

Pupils from Hallfield Junior School, in Bishop's Bridge Road, arranged a festive celebration with the Bayswater estate office run by Westminster Council's housing arm CityWest Homes.

Questions were fired at a top legal expert by pupils at a Westbourne Green school.

Edmund Hall, senior prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), held a debate over the criminal justice system during a visit to Westminster Academy in Harrow Road, on Tuesday.

Parents have lost their battle to save a popular Marylebone nursery from closure.

University of Westminster announced yesterday it would close its Luxborough Street nursery at the end of December.

Boxer from a Queen's Park gym are to feature in a prestigious photography exhibition.

Student Inzajeano Latif, 34, was inspired to enter a competition with pictures he took of women training at the All Stars Boxing Gym, in Harrow Road.

A headteacher was celebrating after his Lisson Grove primary school was named one of the best in the country.

Gateway Primary School, in Capland Street, was revealed as one of 20 outstanding primary schools which excel despite very challenging circumstances, in a recent Ofsted report.

Pupils at a Westbourne Green school were celebrating after smashing government GCSE targets.

This year, 38 per cent of students at Westminster Academy, in Harrow Road, achieved five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, which has more than doubled since 17 per cent were awarded the same grades last year.

Dazzling GCSE results were picked up by pupils at a North Paddington academy today.

The best-performing student at Paddington Academy was Mohammed Said Noor, 16, who achieved an impressive eight A* grades in Arabic, maths, science, additional science, German, French, history and business, as well as a B in English language.

Pupils at two north Westminster academies were celebrating their A Level results this week.

All students at Westminster Academy, in Harrow Road, Westbourne Green, have gained places at university this year, and most at their first choice.

Emotions were running high at a St John's Wood secondary school as students picked up their A Level results today.

Among the best at Quintin Kynaston School, in Marlborough Hill, was 18-year-old Visar Shabi, who picked up three A grades in maths, further maths and physics, as well as a C in chemistry.