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Cash strapped Conservative Council announce plans to spend £150,000 on educational consultants!
What’s this to do with? As reported in the Peterborough Telegraph recently, Tories at the Town Hall, have decided to pay education specialists £150,000 “..to help improve primary school results.” These “experts” are from an organisation called Success for All, which is based in Cathedral Square, and apparently they’ll be helping the five most under […]
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City Council should NOT use immigration as a reason for poor primary school results!
What’s this to do with? A recent article in the Peterborough Telegraph, reported that a recipient of a ‘Literacy Hero’ award by the National Literacy Trust, Richard O’Neill, had said the “…council should not use high levels of immigration as a reason for it having the second worst results from pupils leaving primary school.” His comments […]
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Just 23% of pupils at The Voyager Academy scored A*-C grades in English and Maths!
What’s this to do with? Well basically, it relates to the recent news that the Voyager Academy has been taken over by the Thomas Deacon Academy Education Trust. The academy had been run by the Cam Academy Trust. You may remember that the school had previously been placed in to special measures? It is currently rated as ‘Requires […]
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New Schools located at Manor Drive, Gunthorpe, will open ……
During our door knocking exercises this year, one of the big questions from residents living along or just off Manor Drive relates to what is happening with the plan to build schools at the location. So at a previous Full Council meeting I stood up and asked the Leader of the City Council what […]
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I’ve recently become a Governor at Gunthorpe Primary School!
I’ve recently had the pleasure of becoming a School Governor at Gunthorpe Primary School, and following my first meeting, I have to say I am encouraged by the commitment and ideas shown by other members of the board. I’ve been a governor before at Ken Stimpson, and earlier in the year, at a committee meeting, […]
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Lib Dems Pupil Premium policy has given hundreds of thousands of £’s to schools in this area
The Liberal Democrats have certainly got a lot of stick for taking part in the coalition government between 2010 and 2015, but, it was certainly not all bad! Especially when it comes to providing support for schools like Norwood, Gunthorpe, Werrington and Welbourne Primary Schools! The other year I was appointed to a special group at […]
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West Town Primary to relocate on former hospital site (Thorpe Road)
So ….. building work has started on a new primary school on the former hospital site on Thorpe Road, Peterborough. Although technically, it’s NOT a new school, as the new building will house West Town Primary Academy who are relocating from Williamson Avenue. The Council says the new building will open in 2016 (presume September?) and provide places for […]
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Teacher training opportunities available in Peterborough
Teaching opportunities are available in Peterborough to graduates who train under a scheme run by Peterborough City Council. The Peterborough Teacher Training Partnership, in partnership with the University of London, is looking for graduates to train to become a teacher in schools in Peterborough. The Teach East scheme has been training teachers for over a […]
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Enjoyable Q and A session with students from St John Fisher School @sjfpeterborough
I had an enjoyable chat recently with students from St John Fisher, after receiving an invite from the school’s head teacher to take part in a question and answers session. I was pleasantly impressed with the students knowledge of politics and the present nation issues and policies, of the major parties. From the response that […]
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More funding for local schools @WPS_school
When the Lib Dems were elected to government in 2010, one of their highest priorities was to tackle the school funding problem here in Cambridgeshire. It is simply unforgivable that local schools were receiving £600 per pupil per year less than the national average – the least of anywhere in the Country. It is a […]
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