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The Issue
According to
Ofsted,
Haywood High School and Engineering College is a 'good school' with
some 'outstanding' features. The
Stoke-on-Trent City Council, guided by the private company Serco, which
coincidentally also runs the U.K. Atomic Weapons Establishment, without
consultation of any sort within the local community, continue to
propose the possibility of the closure of the school.
There is no reason why
Haywood cannot remain on its present site,
serving the local community with its, according to Ofsted in 2007,
'outstanding' care and ethos.
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Next meeting at the school of the HoHH
Community Group:
Monday 21st
January 2008
3.15 p.m.
at the School
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The
school is totally against these proposals because:-
- there
will be no choice
of secondary school for the community in Burslem.
- the Council and Serco will destroy a
good school and
its ethos.
- the school site is also the location
of the City
Learning Centre and community library.
- the school is at the heart of the
community.
- with support, the school can be
better than "good" -
we can be "outstanding".
Local
people
reject these
proposals because:-
- we
have a good, improving, local
school in the midst of our community.
- there has been absolutely no initial
consultation by Serco to
discover the wishes and aspirations of the community.
- the central government has been
promising us choice
for years.
- there is no joined-up thinking in
this proposal.
- the Council is pushing the building
of houses, not
retail premises, within Haywood's catchment area - and yet wants to
close the school. Does the building of houses increase or decrease the
need for schools for the children of the occupants?
- if these new houses are built, is
anybody going to
want to live in them if the best school in the area is being closed?
Top-down
development
(development with no community consultation, often for the benefit of
shareholders of multinational companies) was conclusively proven not to
work overseas in the 1950s and 1960s.
How can it work in
Stoke-on-Trent in 2008?
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Haywood Engineering College
High Lane
Burslem
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST6 7AB
United Kingdom
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01782 853535
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