Tag Archives: school

Sal Brinton as you have never seen her before

By Caron Lindsay | Tue 8th September 2015 - 3:36 pm

As schools went back last week, Party President Sal Brinton did lots of work on anti-bullying strategies at the start of term.

She gave some words of wisdom, and an old school photo, to Anti-Bullying pro:

@SalBrinton shares her #Back2School advice… http://t.co/5KCQIafTnF pic.twitter.com/8pdJsDpLrh

— Anti-Bullying Pro (@AntiBullyingPro) September 2, 2015

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Can moderate public engagement be a good thing?

By Paul Walter | Mon 22nd September 2014 - 10:55 am

While I was a governor at a primary school, we had a yearly dilemma. By law, we had to hold an annual meeting with parents. About a dozen usually turned up. Normally the same faces. Interested and engaged, they gave us good feedback and a nice time was had by all. Soft drinks and nibbles supplied.

But a dozen parents for a school with several hundred pupils was considered low. So, annually, we considered ways of increasing parental attendance, only to be frustrated. After several attempts, I jokingly suggested that the only way to increase attendance was to announce that, at the next meeting, we would be showing a preview of an experimental Swedish sex education video which we were considering showing to pupils.

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Opinion: Panic – children are political

By Patrick McAuley | Tue 18th March 2014 - 2:44 pm

This morning I went through the day’s top headlines in my daily LGIU e-mail with the usual ‘some interesting stuff but nothing to get my knickers in a knot over’ attitude. That was until I came across an article in the Independent that read ‘Pupil Aaron Parfitt excluded after school protest calling for more homework‘.

The broader complaint was about standards in Bispham High School in Blackpool. I am tremendously impressed that a student of such tender years had the initiative, organisational skills and determination to follow through with a protest of this size. Following my last contribution on the …

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