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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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Hands off Haywood High

Next meeting at the school of the HoHH Community Group:

Monday 21st
January 2008
3.15 p.m.
at the School
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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High Lane
Burslem
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST6 7AB
United Kingdom

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