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Have the DfE already approved Beccles and Saxmundham Free Schools?

The Seckford Foundation sent a letter to parents in the Thurston area today about their proposals for a free school in Ixworth. This letter ...

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Seckford Foundation increase salary of highest paid employee to over £200,000 a year

Woodbridge Head Stephen Cole Highest paid employee? The 2011 Accounts for the Seckford Foundation available from Companies House reveal...

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Free Schools threaten Home to School Transport across Suffolk

As a predominantly rural county home to school transport is a very large part of the education budget. It is also something that the County ...

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Seckford recruiting staff for Saxmundham and Beccles

As I reported the Seckford Foundation recently appointed Rob Cawley as Principal of the Seckford Free Schools. They are currently interview...

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Suffolk CC approve move to Two Tier in Thurston as Beyton Middle work with Thurston Partnership

Andrew Nicholson Head of Beyton Middle School Suffolk County Council's cabinet approved the change from three tier to two tier in th...

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Seckford Foundation refuse to answer questions about appointment of principal

Not Subject to Freedom of Information In correspondence seen by this Blog, the Seckford Foundation have refused to answer any questions ...

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"Read all about it" with Readability

The more observant readers of this Blog might have noticed that if you go to the individual article page for any blogpost you now see a tool...

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Beccles Free School: Rob Cawley the "not so independent adjudicator" appointed Principal

Rob Cawley The Beccles and Bungay Journal report today that Rob Cawley has been appointed by the Seckford Foundation as Principal Desig...

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Talking to Stradbroke WI about Social Networking

Stradbroke WI Table Cloth Last night my wife Claire and I gave a presentation to the Stradbroke Women's Institute (WI) about socia...

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I have joined the Green Party to make a difference

Sometime ago I wrote a blog post explaining why I had left the Liberal Democrat party . For me the straw that broke the camel's back w...

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Yes, I read the comments under a Telegraph education article...

As the Easter conference season ends one thing is clear. Teachers and their unions are not happy. I lost count of the number of threats to g...

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NUT Case Study on Beccles Free School

Earlier today I published a post entitled Teaching Unions declare war on "poster boy" Gove  where I quoted from a c ase study of f...

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Teaching Unions declare war on "poster boy" Gove

Chris Keates from the NASUWT with a cardboard cut out of Michael Gove (photo BBC News) Michael Gove is seen by many as the "poster ...

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Making a Lego iPhone Dock!

Some time ago one of my sons made me a lego dock for my phone using instructions he found on You Tube. I got a new iPhone 4S recently but ...

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Is the Church of England a "threat" to the nation's morals?

Rt Revd Dr Alan Wilson Bishop of Buckingham As some readers will know and others will not I used to be a very active member of the Churc...

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Hosepipe ban? Not in North Suffolk...

Much of South and West Suffolk is now subject to a hosepipe ban imposed by Anglian Water but customers in the North of the county served b...

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Beccles Free School Decision "likely to be after Easter"

Peter Aldous Waveney MP The EDP report today  that the decision on Beccles Free School is likely to be after Easter now according to l...

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Second former Suffolk County Council waste site closes. Portfolio holder blames local people

Cllr Lisa Chambers, Waste Portfolio Holder Back in February the first waste site to be "divested" by Suffolk County Council at...

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Do the Seckford Foundation know something we don't?

The Seckford Foundation have certainly been behaving with a lot of confidence. Despite a serious public backlash against the Beccles Free Sc...

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Full Text of the Free School FOI Responses Published

I have published the full text of the freedom of information response I got from Suffolk County Council on the proposed Seckford Free Scho...

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