Just got home from the Downside Middle School Awards Evening. As ever it made me proud to be associated as a governor for so many years - 10 now - with a school that does so much terrific stuff with young people and the local community. Downside is now a two site school, both the Furrlongs (Pan) site and the Kitbridge (Parkhurst) site on Forest Road. There have been some real pressures associated with the merger, but I really think it could work well given time. The guest speaker and awards presenter Alex Dyke also seemed to enjoy himself and hopefully he will 'big it up' it on his radio show tomorrow.
One of the consequences of being at the evening was that I was unable to fit in a County Hall briefing for opposition councillors on the latest proposals for schools re-organisation that go to Cabinet on 24 November. So I won't know what is being proposed until the proposals are in the public domain tomorrow lunchtime.......
Opposition group leaders got notice of this briefing only yesterday afternoon. 'Confusion' was blamed. That is an example of the disregard this Council has for non-Tories.
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Alex D did mention it. I saw a great production of Bugsy at Medina school on the same night. Dyke's sidekick The Doc was there cheering the cast. What pride we should have in our young people. They looked like they were having a ball. These kids too often get a bad press.
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