The latest Gloucester Academy Ofsted report is very disappointing. Effectively it puts the school back into special measures. So how to react? I believe:
1. No denial
The key issue is a minority of pupils who don’t attend or who are disruptive (mostly outside lessons).
The Labour Party claim that I voted to remove free school meals (FSMs) from one million of our poorest children is scaremongering of the worst sort, as Channel 4 has shown (see below).
In fact no child will lose a meal at their school during the roll out of Universal Credit (UC) as a result of thes
It was a great day for Gloucester yesterday, visited by the first female Apprenticeship Minister Anne Milton on International Women's Day and National Apprenticeship Week to present Gloucestershire College with a Beacon Award for the Promotion and Delivery of Apprenticeships.
Gloucester MP Richard Graham has welcomed the Education Secretary Justine Greening’s announcement on a new fair funding formula that will increase funding for Gloucester schools by 3.6%.
The Education Secretary made a statement outlining her response to the consultation on the new fair funding form
Congratulations to Field Court Junior Academy Head Teacher Kelly Armstrong who's won Primary Head teacher of the Year for Gloucestershire, and is nominated nationally, and is celebrating in Parliament.
City MP Richard Graham says the recent OFSTED report on the county council’s children’s services is ‘worrying’ and that the council is right to have made immediate changes.
