The latest Gloucester Academy Ofsted report is very disappointing. Effectively it puts the school back into special measures. So how to react? I believe:
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).
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.
It's National Apprenticeship Week and we've had 9,000 new apprentices in Gloucester since 2010. I hope to see you on Thursday at the Festival Of Manufacturing and Engineering (Festomane) at the University of Gloucestershire or at the Gloucestershire College Beacon Awards Ceremony.
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%.
Richard Graham MP has welcomed a commitment for £1.3 billion additional spending on schools. Richard had met with Secretary of State Justine Greening MP to highlight the importance of additional funding for Gloucester and Gloucestershire schools.
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. “What matters now is how quickly the council can implement the OFSTED recommendations and turn the service around.”
