No to academies! All schools have had the letter from the
coalition Education minister. A
handful of schools, those rated outstanding by Ofsted, are eligible to become
academies in September with virtually no consultation of staff or even parents! Besides being fundamentally opposed to
Academies for educational reasons we think this unseemly haste to rush things
through without any consultation is entirely unreasonable. Academies threaten our ideal of a
fairly funded, locally controlled school for every neighbourhood. Our union has lots of news and support
for the campaign
against academies on our national web site. If your Head seems to be interested in becoming an academy
please contact Brian 01482 448653 or Martin 01482 864998 urgently.
Invited to an interview by the police about an incident with
a child? You must get
representation! Contact 01482
448653 or 01482 864998 or 01302 342448 as a matter of urgency.
SATs Campaign. School Leaders
said no to SATs! In our area lots
of schools did not administer SATs.
We worked closely with the local NAHT and featured strongly in the local
media. Look at our
assessment reform pages.
Victory! – No to license to practise! Read more here.
And the winner is Diana White of Bay Primary, Bridlington. Latest winner of our termly prize draw for school
reps.
Redundancy meetings: Several
East Riding Schools are working through the overstaffing process, many have
solved the situation. A very small
number of NUT members have found themselves selected for redundancy and are
receiving help.
News from the AGM
Martin continues his year as National
President.
Brian
Swinton and Martin Reed will be joint secretaries for 2010/2011 for more
details of how this will operate please see changes in your local association we also say
thank you and goodbye to long serving (and long suffering) assistant secretary
Available now for reps an East Riding NUT pen drive preloaded with all the relevant East Riding policies and lots of useful NUT
guidance it also contains more than enough space
for all your school powerpoints etc.
It was available at our AGM and has been posted to all reps. Reps’ forums have been and gone and we’re thinking of the next
one, possibly Hornsea/Withernsea area.
Are you on facebook? If you are have a look for our new East Riding NUT facebook page. It
contains very necessary advice about security settings and how a member had
their id cloned! If you do have a
facebook account be very careful with your security settings look here.
Anyone who joined our facebook group (a
members only group) were entered for a substantial M&S voucher prize draw and the winner
is Dave Madill of
Latest News: The latest newsletter arrived in
your school towards the end of last term, you can read it here. It also has a taster of Leven teacher Rebecca Hutchinson’s
summer experience as a volunteer in
Kenya.
What a great meeting!
Here are the some of the officers and
members who attended our last meeting at the Tiger Inn, Beverley in September.
As well as hearing the National
President, Martin Reed, speak on a wide range of issues some very important
concerns were raised about Health
and Safety, particularly asking for guidance about swine flu.
Our previous newsletter had all this:
Rarely cover, crossing the threshold,
ending SATs, and the latest ramblings from our very own Old
Codger
All this and more in our previous newsletter .