Guest blog
from local school chaplain Elvin Bishop
The benefits
of Tory education policy (ably assisted by Cllrs Pavey and Butt) are taking
time to become apparent at one local school, as these figures appear to show:
2012:
Copland 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths 40%
2013:
Copland 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths 43%
2014:
Copland 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths 46%
September2014
and Forced Academisation takes place against the wishes of parents, students
and staff but backed by Michaels Gove and Pavey and Leader Mo Butt. Copland
becomes Ark Elvin Academy.
2015:
Copland 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths 34%*
*figure from
Ark Elvin website
Still, as
Jose Mourinho probably said to Roman
Abramovich on Sunday, ‘early days’.
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Parents could push for Ark Academies to be replaced given these results
DFE can't have it both ways!!!
GCSEs were getting easier and they stopped dumbing them down?
DeleteThat was 'superhead' Dame (as in pantomime, presumably) Rachel de Souza on R4 this morning. Of whom it has been said:
Delete'Dame Rachel de Souza, chief executive of the Inspiration Trust, and its chairman, Theodore Agnew, responded to renewed claims in a Sunday newspaper that three schools connected to Dame Rachel received advance notice of the dates that Ofsted inspectors would visit.
The schools were Ormiston Victory Academy, which Dame Rachel led before taking up her current role, and Great Yarmouth Primary Academy and Thetford Academy, which are members of the Inspiration Trust'.
It's possibly tasteless to mention it in the context of Copland/Ark but these 'superheads' seem to have a less than perfect record when it comes to sticking to the straight and narrow. Let's hope the dodgy dame hangs on to her gong, eh?