On Friday CAM met with Major Tikendra Dal Dewan, Chairman of the British Gurkha Welfare Society, and experienced school governor.Over 20% of students at Kings International are from British Nepalese families and the college has a school-partnership with a Nepalese school.
The Surrey County Council (SCC) consultation document includes a page in various languages inviting the reader to contact the council for a translated document - but Nepalese is not one of the languages.
Major Dewan was very interested to learn about the SCC plans and the alternatives being proposed by CAM. The BGWS will be working to inform the local community and particularly parents of Kings students and junior school children about the impact of the proposed closure of Kings and the proposed creation of the Tominscote mega-school.
As a school governor in North West Hampshire, Major Dewan has confirmed the abundance of students looking for a local, successful and improving secondary school. At CAM we believe the best option would be an academy that retained all of the experience of working with its local community - including the Nepalese community.
We look forward to hearing from all of our local parents - in Surrey Heath and Hampshire. Send us your questions about the SCC proposal and we will do our best to give you the information the consultation document lacks.
The deadline for sending your consultation response to SCC is 17th June.
You can email us at
tomlinscote.kings@gmail.com or
keepkingsorg@gmail.com
I hope you mean 17th June?
ReplyDeleteIt os great to read about the positive vision Kings could have if it was given the proper support such as being part of an academy. The PAN for Watchetts is increasing from 60 to 110 and there is a new primary school planned for Deepcut with a PAN of 60. How big do SCC expect this Tomlinscote Mega school to grow to? It would have a PAN approaching 500! The largest school in the UK has PAN of 420, so this alone makes this proposal crazy...
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the closing date is 17th June, I believe.
17th JUNE indeed! ;-)
ReplyDeleteFor those like me who think a pan is a cooking utensil - that means 500 students starting in year 7.
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