Campaign Newletter July 2008
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It's been an interesting week for our campaign. Having briefed officers from Camden and DCSF in May about the Wren Street site, on which our architectural friends from Studio Weave had proven a school could be built, the story hit the press this week (see Camden New Journal and Ham and High). We are greatly encouraged by the positive attitude towards the site shown by Cllr Janet Grauberg, the new LibDem Executive Member for Children; she has said that the Council is 'taking it seriously', which we applaud (loudly). Read More...
from DOROTHEA HACKMAN, Governor, teacher and parent
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CNJ 17 July 2008 - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
*Open letter to Councillor Andrew Mennear, Executive Member for Schools
YOU must have been as delighted as everyone else to hear at the public meeting on Thursday convened by Frank Dobson MP that Camden Council after all owns a site south of the Euston Road suitable for a secondary school.
I am referring of course to 21 Wren Street, a vacant light industrial site currently offered for letting by the council. Read More...
CNJ 17 July 2008Camden News by RICHARD OSLEY
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‘Now we’ve found a site, can we have a school?’
The Town Hall said there was nowhere to build a south-of-the-borough secondary. Then parents went looking... OPENING soon? Wren Street Community School in Holborn, the secondary comprehensive of choice for families living south of Euston Road. Read More...
CNJ 26 June 2008
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‘Give us the primary school we want’
Governor claims school was offered ‘sweetener’ to agree controversial co-location deal
GOVERNORS at a Somers Town primary school have claimed they were deliberately kept in the dark about council plans to put another school on its grounds. Read More...
Weds 19th March
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Please come and show your support at the council chamber, Camden Town Hall at 6.30pm on Weds 19th March. Read More...
Proposed changes to Camden's secondary schools
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Public meetings are being held on the following proposals:
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CAMPAIGN NEWSFLASH
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Below is a public announcement made by Ed Balls MP on Friday 29th Feb. This is the first public commitment by the government to directly address our local need for a school south of the Euston Rd. It comes as the result of two years of persistent lobbying by parents, local councilors and our MP Frank Dobson and, whilst we have our work cut out to keep up pressure on central and local government to ensure this results in the school we want for our community, it represents a significant achievement for our campaign.
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Newsletter Feb 2008
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Do you agree with the council's proposal to expand South Camden Community School and make it the biggest secondary school in Camden?
Many local parents feel this will threaten the school's stability, that it is big enough already, and that the council should leave SCCS alone. We think that there is a need for another school further south, which could work in partnership with SCCS. And our calculations show that when the new housing is built in Kings Cross the catchment area of SCCS will reduce to less than it is now.
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Letter to CNJ 28.2.08
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Cllr Arthur Graves (letters 21st Feb) agrees there is a need for a secondary school south of Euston Rd.
We at www.whereismyschool.org.uk thank him for his support. It has always been important to this campaign that our support in the borough is cross-party. It's not surprising that he, as a governor of Christopher Hatton Primary School, understands our need.
He also confidently claims there is an equal need in the north west, but how can any of us know this for sure? The council has yet to provide a scrap of statistically valid evidence on comparative need in different areas of the borough.
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Press Release 29th January 2008
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We have been told on many occasions that Camden council has its hands tied over BSF. We heard that a government-imposed timeframe is a major block to further exploration of the availability of a site for a secondary school south of the Euston Road. Read More...
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