HandsOffWoodsidePrimary

A group of parents at Woodside Primary School in Hertfordshire have no choice but to start a campaign as the HT and GB of our village school have started a period of consultation to join Enfield based Ivy Learning Multi Academy Trusy. There is no clear reason for this, we just

@ShaunaghRoberts @warwickmansell @educationgovuk @GavinWilliamson People are quick to blame schools.individually and the STA look into these but if it's the approach from a Trust that puts the pressure on the schools they get away with it. Seems same thing happened silver birch did it???

Just finished reading a published FOI request by @educationgovuk.It would appear that there is no process for the STA to investigate MATs/trusts as a whole. Could you please let me know if this is correct @GavinWilliamson. Thank you in advance. The link below mat be helpful.

@ShaunaghRoberts @warwickmansell @educationgovuk @GavinWilliamson It is quite something that to look at MATs overall in allecgatuons of cheating is a major step missing and it is left to RSC to determine looking into a trust overall.

@warwickmansell Is the reality that if it happens there will be no school staff employed by a local authority! The staff will.not even be classed in the same way as civil servants working in the public interest they will be a workforce employed by basically privately run institutions???

New diary: Johnson to return to compulsory mass academisation? If he remembers what happened last time, he ought to be aware it wd be v unpopular: educationuncovered.co.uk/diary/diary/14… Plus...governance at ex-minister's chain discussed by Headteacher Board - but no barrier to it expanding..

Exclusive: government's forced academies projects now taking an average of at least 18 months, new DfE data reveal: educationuncovered.co.uk/news/141336/go…

Sorry for the total radio silence from our campaign. Please click on the link to see the current converter academy pipeline list assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… @warwickmansell @antiacademies @SchoolsWeek @HertsNeu @NEUnion @GMB_union @ourgoffsoak

@EstherMcVey1 would you have parental voice in academisation?

Schools are being forced into national multi-academy trusts behind the scenes. The likes of @JonColes01 - the CEO of United Living are gobbling up our schools as part of the academies project. Schools should be publicly run and locally accountable! cambridgeindependent.co.uk/education/teac…

Congratulations!! You clearly have governors who are listening and processing true risks and standing against them!

Yet some people think that this is okay...

Exclusive: Academisation stalling in London, DfE data reveal. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/140786/ac… Only 12 of inner London's 990 state schools currently in process of academising. Area already has 2nd-lowest proportion of acads of England's 10 regions, at 27% of schools.

Exclusive: More than two thirds of sponsored academy projects delayed, new DfE data reveal. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/140756/mo… Comparing latest, eventually-published, DfE spreadsheet with last shows academy opening dates sliding.

Academies: Striking teachers and angry parents from John Roan and Waltham Holy Cross schools pay the DFE a visit @JohnRoanResists @HandsOffWHX @themediafund @antiacademies

Amazing! Solidarity to all at @JohnRoanResists great work!

Our petition against the support staff cuts at Halley Academy has been hand-delivered to HR this morning. We await their formal response, but please like and share to help us get our message across!

#transparency #BallotWoodsideParents @hertscc @bbceducation @ourgoffsoak @GoffsAcademy @SchoolsWeek @warwickmansell @sweale @GuardianEdu @HandsOffWHX @antiacademies @HertsNeu

Our local Multi Academy Trust have annotated a document that our school had published about their meeting. They had asked for this annotated document to be shared, instead, Woodside deleted the original & added version 2, with the conversation deleted #OurKidsDeserveBetter

Solidarity

@sweale @GuardianEdu @hertscc @bbceducation @olole11parents @OLOLE11 @JohnRoanResists

Lawyers acting on behalf of the clients running the campaign released a statement for us to share. It summarises the outcomes of the pre action letter and why a parent governor election is underway @antiacademies @HandsOffWHX @warwickmansell @HertsNeu @ourgoffsoak @SchoolsWeek