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School open events in Brentwood for 2013 entry
Parents selecting their school preferences for their children for September 2013 entry have until October 31st to do so. Following requests for clarification of when Brentwood’s state funded schools...
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Uniform cost – how does Brentwood compare?
Last month the government urged state funded schools to give careful consideration to cost when changing their uniform policy. This was underlined by the Local Government Association (LGA) who stated...
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Assessing schools – don’t start and end with the prospectus
We are now well into this year’s round of open events in Brentwood’s schools and I have been fascinated to see how each of the secondary schools that serve the five parishes of the town has set about...
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Another free school? Don’t spare the hyperbole.
Just as the dust appeared to be settling on an extraordinary year or so in education in Brentwood, we receive news that there may be more change in the offing. The following article appeared on the...
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Vocational provision on former SHC site – Latest
Following our post in June, “Uncertain future – Current uses, users and facilities of the Sawyers Hall College site” http://wp.me/p2dr6s-8B, we have kept an eye on how Essex County Council (ECC) have...
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Why the #GCSEFiasco campaign needs our support
What an unforgettable summer we experienced this year. For sports fans like me it was fantastic but for some students and their teachers it will not be remembered so fondly. When GCSE results were...
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Brentwood Heads take local initiative on vocational provision
Before Christmas, Richard and I took up an invitation to meet with two of Brentwood’s Secondary Head teachers. In a convivial and constructive meeting, we discussed the town’s new educational landscape...
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Best practice, evidence or just conviction? Behaviour policies in Brentwood...
I fear that I am not alone as a parent in largely being unaware of the school policies of our children’s school until I have to be. Now that I am asked to write a monthly local newspaper column I have...
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Essex County Council proposed school transport policy undermines parental choice
Essex County Council (ECC) is currently consulting on proposals to change entitlement to free school transport in the county. For many of us in Brentwood it will have little impact but for most in our...
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“We either believe in comprehensive education or we don’t”
There has been much celebration in the local press this week about the newly published Ofsted report of one of our local secondary schools, Brentwood County High School (BCHS). The school has received...
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