Tag Archives: Primary school

No head, no leader, no planning: doubts over Free School

Posted on January 28, 2014 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Gove’s Roke “consultation” uses figures that do not add up

Posted on May 23, 2013 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Spellings joins the Code Club to help next digital generation

Posted on May 12, 2013 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Highly objectionable: Roke parents lodge academy complaints

Posted on April 20, 2013 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Aerodrome parents staging protest over crossing cuts

Posted on April 16, 2013 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Nash letter dashes hopes for Roke to escape Harris

Posted on February 26, 2013 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Tory councillor says Gove’s academy conduct is “woeful”

Posted on February 21, 2013 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Schools can join Croydon’s Code Club: meeting, Thu, Feb 21

Posted on February 14, 2013 by insidecroydon

As the Croydon Tech City movement, first publicised on Inside Croydon last year, gathers momentum, one of its first moves is to offer a Code Club after-school club to local primaries. Code Club will teach primary school children computer programming … Continue reading →

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Gove will tear us apart: the challenge facing Roke Primary

Posted on February 12, 2013 by insidecroydon

An hour-long film on the battle against academy status by a group of parents and teachers in north London offers salutary lessons for a local school Roke Primary School, in Kenley, is being handed over to a carpet salesman on … Continue reading →

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Norbury councillor questions decision to allow Free School

Posted on October 5, 2012 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Go to the back of the class if you fail in this school test

Posted on May 15, 2012 by insidecroydon

Just for a change, we thought we’d set our loyal reader a little quiz. One question and one question only… Who said: We live in a profoundly unequal society. More than almost any developed nation ours is a country in … Continue reading →

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Teachers to quit Oval Primary before move to Academy

Posted on June 16, 2011 by insidecroydon

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.

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Do you Fink Tory millionaire banker should run a state school?

Posted on May 22, 2011 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Oval Primary parents offered “bribe” to stay at academy school

Posted on May 20, 2011 by insidecroydon

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 →

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Oval Primary parents summoned to academy status meeting

Posted on May 4, 2011 by insidecroydon

“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 →

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Oval Primary parents claim to “oust” new headteacher

Posted on February 19, 2011 by insidecroydon

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.

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Oval primary head replaced as school handed to “federation”

Posted on February 18, 2011 by insidecroydon

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 →

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