Concerned parents have called for stability at a 340-year-old school at the centre of an ongoing row over becoming an academy. John Roan School in Blackheath was hit with an academisation order after a damning Ofsted report found it to be inadequate last year. The government has said that United Learning will take the school […]
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News about Blackheath, London SE3 – including Westcombe Park – from The Greenwich Wire.
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Brooklands Primary parents told their campaigning is ‘harassment’
A parents’ group protesting at cuts at a primary school in Blackheath has been banned from contacting the academy trust which runs the school except under the terms of a policy designed to deal with harassment, 853 has discovered. Parents began a campaign after two office staff at Brooklands Primary School were threatened with redundancy […]
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Activists disrupt meeting as Greenwich Council nods through John Roan academy order
Greenwich Council has rubber-stamped the takeover of John Roan School by the United Learning academies trust amid angry scenes at Woolwich Town Hall, effectively ending a bitter struggle over the future of the historic Blackheath school. Last night’s meeting was suspended after disruption by activists from the John Roan Resists campaign, which has opposed the […]
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United Learning confirmed as taking over John Roan School
The academy chain United Learning has been confirmed as the new sponsor of John Roan School in Blackheath, ending months of uncertainty about the historic school’s future. United Learning will take over the school in September but will begin working alongside its headteacher Cath Smith immediately, parents were told today. The 300-year-old school, which is […]
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Parents’ fury over academy chain’s cutbacks at Brooklands Primary School
Parents at a Blackheath primary school are accusing its academy chain of “a failure of competence” after it announced plans to cut staff who they say are vital to their children’s wellbeing. Two office staff at Brooklands primary school are understood to be at risk of losing their jobs after Maritime Academy Trust, which runs […]
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Can you help Invicta Primary School in Blackheath get a green wall?
Worries about the Silvertown Tunnel and pollution have placed a focus on Invicta Primary School in Blackheath – which lies close to the queues of the Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach and is one of the 50 most polluted schools in London. However, the school is doing something about it – raising funds for a “green […]
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Cash-strapped TfL spent £9,000 promoting Woolwich double-deckers
Transport for London has spent over £9,000 on advertisements promoting two Woolwich bus services becoming double deckers – even though other services are being cut back to save money. A total of £8,283 was spent on poster ads at bus stops at 21 locations along the route of the 178 service from Woolwich to Lewisham […]
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Academy boss tipped to run John Roan hits out at school protesters
The boss of the trust tipped to take over troubled John Roan School has hit back at critics who oppose it becoming an academy – and has effectively accused them of intimidation and bullying. Jon Coles, the chief executive of United Learning, challenged John Roan Resists to prove it was questioning Greenwich Council over the […]
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