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Tag Archives: Primary school
South Croydon primary forced to close due to ‘safety concerns’
Regina Coeli, a large Catholic primary school in South Croydon, has been closed today due to “some concerns about the safety of the building”, according to a note hurriedly distributed to parents and carers last night. The zero-notice closure is … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Regina Coeli, Schools
Tagged crumbling concrete, Pampisford Road, Primary school, RAAC, Regina Coeli School
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No head, no leader, no planning: doubts over Free School
Plans for a three-form entry primary Free School on Highbury Avenue appear to be in some disarray, with no head teacher yet appointed just seven months before the school is supposed to open, no planning approval granted to build on … Continue reading
Posted in Advance School, Alisa Flemming, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Dudley Mead, Education, John Wentworth, Maggie Mansell, Norbury, Schools, Tim Pollard, Uncategorized
Tagged Advance School Norbury, Alisa Flemming, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Dudley Mead, Education, John Wentworth, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Primary school, Russell King, schools, Thornton Heath, Tim Pollard
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Gove’s Roke “consultation” uses figures that do not add up
One of the basics taught at every primary school is adding up. Trouble with Michael Gove, the education secretary, and the “consultation” he commissioned on the future of Roke Primary School, is that none of it adds up. Roke is … Continue reading
Spellings joins the Code Club to help next digital generation
Code Club, the scheme to bring practical knowledge about digital technology into primary school classrooms, has another local volunteer in Neil Spellings, a past contributor to this website. Spellings has worked for more than 18 years in the IT industry, … Continue reading
Highly objectionable: Roke parents lodge academy complaints
The sham “consultation” over the future of Roke Primary in Kenley, in which Michael Gove, the education secretary, wants to hand over the public property of a recently built, high-achieving school, to a Conservative party donor, ended on Friday. The Save … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary
Tagged Conservative, Department for Education, Harris Federation, Michael Gove, Primary school, Richard Ottaway, Riddlesdown, Roke
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Aerodrome parents staging protest over crossing cuts
Parents at Aerodrome School will be staging a protest this afternoon in support of their lollipop lady, Maureen Seymour, who faces losing her job ensuring the safety of hundreds of children, as Croydon Council looks to make savings of £60,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Aerodrome Primary, Croydon Council, Education, Schools, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Parent, Primary school, Waddon
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Nash letter dashes hopes for Roke to escape Harris
Parents, governors and staff at Roke Primary were left “shattered” last week, after the local MP, Richard Ottaway, passed on to them a letter he had received from Lord Nash, the under-secretary at the Department for Education. Nash’s letter runs … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Kenley, Richard Ottaway MP, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, Harris Federation, Ofsted, Primary school, Richard Ottaway, Riddlesdown, Roke
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Tory councillor says Gove’s academy conduct is “woeful”
A Conservative councillor in Croydon has made an extraordinary attack against Michael Gove over the way in which the Tory-led government’s education secretary and his department is steamrolling through the transfer of a local primary school. In a rare, if … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Department for Education, Harris Federation, Michael Gove, Ofsted, Primary school, Riddlesdown
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Norbury councillor questions decision to allow Free School
Plans for a three-form-entry, primary Free School in Norbury could yet encounter some Town Hall opposition, with at least one local Croydon councillor already expressing her strong misgivings about the scheme. Free Schools have been introduced by the ConDem coalition … Continue reading
Posted in Advance School, Croydon North, Education, Maggie Mansell, Norbury, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Free School, Labour, Michael Gove, Primary school, Tim Pollard, Toby Young, Trojan Horse
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Teachers to quit Oval Primary before move to Academy
According to parents who attended the latest meeting at controversial Oval Primary on Wednesday, the majority of existing teaching staff plan to resign ahead of the school’s handover to an educational group headed by a leading Tory party millionaire.
Do you Fink Tory millionaire banker should run a state school?
Jon Ellacott, a parent with three children attending Oval Primary, has uncovered some disturbing information about the background, qualifications and achievements – or lack of them – of ARK, the educational organisation which is about to be handed valuable public … Continue reading
Oval Primary parents offered “bribe” to stay at academy school
Parents of children at Oval Primary school last night met staff from ARK, the academy specialists who look set to take over the running of the East Croydon school in September. One parent described as a “bribe” the new staff’s … Continue reading
Oval Primary parents summoned to academy status meeting
“If I wanted to work at an independent school,” a senior teacher, the head of a department at a nearby secondary school, confided to us recently, “I’d apply for a job at one.” His school had begun the formal process … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Mike Fisher, Schools, Tim Pollard
Tagged Croydon Council, Education, London Borough of Croydon, Michael Gove, Primary school
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Oval Primary parents claim to “oust” new headteacher
Extraordinary reports reached Inside Croydon last night that Craig Tunstall, the executive headteacher of the Gipsy Hill Federation installed in charge at east Croydon’s Oval Primary School, had been “ousted” on Friday by angry teachers and parents.
Oval primary head replaced as school handed to “federation”
The management of Oval Primary School has been handed to a Lambeth-based “federation” after its headmistress was asked to leave the school at virtually no notice, to the dismay and concern of some parents. The school was put on special … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Croydon Council, Education, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ofsted, Primary school
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