Lecturing in Chicago

Our Headteacher Neil Anderson has flown off to the Windy City to give a lecture on the 'Explorative Quest' project. This is a scheme created and funded by AstraZeneca, the leading pharmaceutial giant, that has a large presence in the U.K.
Mr Anderson has been pioneering this project in St Michael's and also in other local primary schools. It seeks to encourage children in data logging using the latest high-tech instruments.

Project Team Meeting

Today a meeting of 17  people - including project management consultants and 4 civil servants from London - met with the steering group in Truro.
All is now set for opening in September (although the funding agreement has yet to be signed of course).
The consultation of the local community will take place in March.
The new site will be transformed in two main phases.
There is much to be done in the next few months including development of curriculum and policies; assisting teachers to transfer from the present school and recruiting more staff; deciding how to build in ICT and working towards the funding agreement.
There was a very positive feel to the gathering.

Full steam ahead

Ian Gamble visited St Michael's for two days this week from Prospect (educational consultants).

He was able to meet a spectrum of representatives (parents, governors, parish priests etc) as well as look at all our work.

He gave a very positive assessment of the project, stating that he thought things were extremely well in place so far (amongst the best of all the free schools he'd dealt with).