David Cameron, M.P. on school
`But I do try to spend a lot of time in schools. `
`Politics and education don’t always mix. `
Our school
Here is a picture of David Cameron talking to one of our pupils, while taking a tour of the school with our two chairperson councillors, Chris and Katie.
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`Brize Norton Primary School have
welcomed local MP and leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, for the
opening of a new classroom extension. `
Head teacher of
The new classrooms are of a high quality and have
made a tremendous difference to the whole school community.”
Councillor
Michael Waine, the county council’s Cabinet Member for School Improvement,
said: “This project has improved the whole learning environment for both pupils
and teaching staff with the new classroom extension freeing up valuable space
in the assembly hall for school activities.”
The county
council has invested more than £600,000 in the project that has provided the
school with a dedicated assembly hall for plays, concerts and other school events
and freedom of the hall at all times for assemblies, plays and concerts.
Other schools
David Cameron’s speeches on other schools-see what
your MP is saying about you!
Dear Mr Miliband . . . In this school, to balance the budget I will have
to lose two teachers and teach full-time, or have two junior classes of 45
pupils each. What do you suggest I do?" The same head teacher wrote to me to say
that the school's situation is not unique, that it had contacted other schools,
that all reported huge losses in revenue, and that those that can break even
will do so only by using large carry-forwards: in Oxfordshire, apparently, all
schools are living above their means..
As we know, a standstill for all schools means
that some schools will be subject to cuts. Rod Walker, the head teacher at
Henry Box school, a very successful secondary school in Witney, has said that
secondary schools, particularly those with sixth forms, have not received
sufficient funding to meet the full increase in teacher salary costs, and that
some schools are exploring the possibility of redundancies.
Even more telling is a
letter that I have received from the head teacher of Charlbury primary school,
who says: "I have been a teacher
for 27 years in various phases of education . . . In all my years of experience
I have never known such a critical situation in school budgets. Discussion with
colleagues in Oxfordshire suggests that a large number of schools will have no
alternative but to make redundancies and submit deficit budgets to the
LEA."
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