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agree with ya there, bullies do need help!

Thankfully my daughter has never been bullied, or been a bully...for a start, it would have finished before it started...im very protective of my kids;), they mess with them, they mess with me!!

hope ya daughter is doing ok now;)....no kid should go through that:(

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She's doing great ta, got a good head on her shoulders thank goodness.

Gail xxxx

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I agree with you Willow, its a load of BALLS, Ed Balls that is, he is o education that Bernard Manning was to hang gliding:rolleyes:

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The Academy Is More Than A Name Change !

As from September 2008. Accrington Moorhead will ceast to exist and a new academy called the Accrington Academy, will take over.

The Academy is highly controversial as it is run by a seperate company - ULT (United Learning Trust) and they recieve all the normal funding off the government and are able to 'attract' more funding though the means of sponsorships. Also as an idependant school they can just 'kick' pupils out and keep all the money paid for them by the government in which currently a state school has to pay back. Also as i said early the school can 'hand pick' 10% of the pupils.

The majority of there academys take years to plan and be given the go-ahead due to local people protesting etc. However this one seems to have been agreed and hands shaken in less than a year.

Pupils will not be required to attend till they are 18. However they are building a new A-Level Six Form on site, in which current pupils and pupils from surrounding schools may attend.

The uniform for the new academy looks like Norden's and in my opinion is utterly disqusting.

For more information check out the main site ; http://www.ult.org.uk/

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Ahh!, I've been searching for that, cheers hun.

Gail xxxx

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It will all be in some way saving money! Except for parents, for whom it is likely to cost more.

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Its not about being more academic to go to St Christophers, its about attending church with your parents on a regular basis.:cool:

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wasn't on about the school itself hun, was on about the Acadamy they wanted to build, which was refused.

Gail xxxx

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Thing is St.Chris' does get the better results but I do think that is simply because they have more gifted pupils go... these people who would get A*'s anywhere... I'd say the best value-added school in the area is Hollins

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No St.Christophers wanted to build a sixth form, Much different from an academy.

actually its moorhead top 3 in lancashire.

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http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/..._may_be_closed

And you say Moorhead is in the top 3??

I don't get it!!

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I had a glimpse of the new academy uniform in the Telegraph last night

Might be me not seeing it properly but it doesn't look much different from the one they have now

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Value added is the results from yr 6 taken into account with the results from yr 11.

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Hope they dont close. Only reason we send them there is for abit of peace.

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i had 4 boys at rhyddings one has just lefted , im not being funny but some of the teachers there bully kids , im sendin my 2 youngest to montcarmel,( sorry about the spelling )