Results at Gladstone Park primary school exceed all expectations
Outstanding progress means no need for a ‘Forced Academy’, school parents say Despite improving children’s performance by significantly more than the national average, Gladstone Park Primary School in...
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Why is Ofsted lashing out against primary schools?
From the Guardian John Harris reports on the sinister role of Ofsted in the drive to Academies. Parents and kids from Roke and Gladstone Park on the march Swingeing reports by the inspection body are...
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Demonstration at Snaresbrook Primary School against academy plans
From Snaresbrook Parents A huge thank you to everyone who came to the fantastic protest last night. We estimate that around 150 parents, carers and children were there, despite the rain. We achieved...
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Snaresbrook Primary – DfE’s actions are disproportionate and unjust.
Snaresbrook demo Snaresbrook Primary School parents in East London are saying “no” to the proposed academisation of this much loved and successful local community school. The school is not failing –...
View ArticleCampaigners struck at the heart of forced academy system
Tuesday 22/10/2013 Anti Academies Press Release Campaigners struck at the heart of forced academy system Parents at Downhills Primary School in Tottenham caused Ministers to reject advice from their...
View ArticlePress Release: Roke forced academy parents in uproar over alleged poor...
Press Release For immediate release: Friday 24 Oct 2013 Parents in uproar about alleged fall in teaching standards, removal of special needs support and massaging of data only 7 weeks...
View ArticleVictory at Snaresbrook Primary School
Gove has indicated that he has no stomach for a fight. He has backed down in the face of sustained and escalating protest. It was left to his spin doctor Henry deZoete to throw in the towel, conceding...
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Save Dorothy Barley – NEW campaign againt Forced Academies
Defend Our Schools; Defend Our Community There is a distinct possibility that Dorothy Barley Junior School will become an academy. If this is allowed to happen there will be massive changes, with no...
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Tredworth parents write to Michael Gove in bid to derail St James School...
PARENTS in Tredworth have written to education’s top dog in a bid to derail plans to turn St James CofE Junior School into an academy. The Upton Street school was placed in special measures in...
View ArticleThe Desirability of Failure?
We shouldn’t be surprised that the Government’s Free Schools programme is failing. Failure is built in to the system: it’s a natural – even desirable – consequence of the English education market...
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Just 11% of English Primaries are academies
You could be forgiven for thinking that every school in the country had by now discovered the benefit of Michael Gove’s advice and rushed to become an academy. Yet our vigilant Treasurer Jane Eades...
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New Research by LSN shows academy conversion does not raise primary results
Low performing primaries that have been converted to sponsored academies are improving at a slower rate than their conventional state school counterparts, a new analysis of national test results...
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Portsmouth parents get ready to protest against plan for academy
Parents are preparing to hold a protest in a bid to disband the governing body at a school as it bids to become an academy. The Interim Executive Board of governors (IEB) at Stamshaw Junior School...
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