Wednesday, May 16, 2007

School admission numbers?

I see there's an ad in the Advertiser (page 27) about proposed reductions in admission numbers for certain schools . Can someone explain the significance of this and what anyone may be able to do about it, if it has a bearing on keeping our schools open?
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I give up.
I've been ignoring this one, but ...

falling birth rate, nationally as well as locally means less kids.
Less kids means less teachers, unless you want to pay for 10 teachers to do 9, or less, teachers jobs.

yours a teacher.

24/5/07 7:58 pm
The Postman said...

I do understand the general dilemma about fewer kids and fewer teachers! What I meant was: what is the particular siginficance of the specific numbers that were quoted? And what can anyone do about it? (Short of rushing off to have a zillion babies).

24/5/07 8:01 pm
Anonymous said...

Apart from your suggestion, very little.
I teach 16+ so I'm not quite sure about the compulsory end of things, but St Georges and Mount Scar - IT'LL ALWAYS BE MOUNT SCAR TO ME - sorry - have each 'lost' a teacher in the last 2 years.
There have been stories that MOUNT SCAR has had to merge classes and this ain't quite true.
In the morning Litracee and nomburs are taught in 3 classes. Small class size, important topics and targets. In't afternoon less rigorous classes are taught, so larger class size - good for socialisation. This was a conscious decision taken by the staff. Or so a staff member told me - it's difficult to know who to trust these days!
With the Malthouse closing this could help, buuuut, will the parents trust our local schools? Some of course will have been boarders from far afield.
I'd like to name drop here, but as I can only remember that her name is Jo, well, I was talking to Jo t'other day, she's Head of one thing and something else up in North Dorset. They've already been 'streamlined' i.e. 2 stages 4-11 and 11 to 16. I asked if it would happen in Purbeck and she was nodding before I'd finished, yep, she'd fallen asleep!
10 years ago we were fretting about the number of single mums, now we're fretting cuz they've become chaste, or sober, or sensible!
Which MAY lead to 2 first schools, one of which had better be called MOUNT SCAR, and then off to Purbeck.
4 or 5 years ago Purbeck was below it's target numbers, which made it one of Dorsets few 'sink' schools. But that's a whole new can of worms.

29/5/07 10:38 pm
Anonymous said...

The answer is to close bloody Pubic school and bring ver kids back to Swanage. Seriously, it can get them to reconnect with the town they live in and enable all those after school activities now made impossible by 40 minute bus journeys home of an evening. 2 sKools gonna come we just hafta choose where.

24/6/07 11:56 am

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