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Keep Camden Local

@KeepCamdenLocal

Local group campaigning to keep Camden Juniors in the family of Sutton schools

 Carshalton, Surrey
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@MaryBurstow eg up to 49% in Merton.
@MaryBurstow no it's not. Many areas in London had higher turnout.
Snaresbrook not to be sponsored academy wp.me/p3vt04-89 via @wordpressdotcom

Snaresbrook not to be sponsored academy

The DfE has announced that it will not force Snaresbrook primary school in Redbridge to become a sponsored academy. Snaresbrook was judged by Ofsted to be failing in June this year and the DfE indi…

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Harris cutting SEN support and adjusting grades? wp.me/p3vt04-86

Harris cutting SEN support and adjusting grades?

Parents at the Harris primary academy in Kenley – formerly Roke Primary School – are up in arms over the school’s withdrawal of all one-to-one help that had always been provided for pup…

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Forced academies 'very expensive' wp.me/p3vt04-84

Forced academies ‘very expensive’

In a document leaked to the Guardian, civil servants describe the government’s policy of forced academisation as ‘very expensive’.  They suggest that the DfE should consider no lo…

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Harris fails English test wp.me/p3vt04-81

Harris fails English test

The problem the Harris Federation seems to have with spelling (see previous post ) is not restricted to ‘the school formerly known as Camden’, Children at the Harris Primary Academy in …

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Their There! Harris needs English lessons to add to geography lessons wp.me/p3vt04-7R

Their There!

Given that the ‘school formerly known as Camden Juniors’ should be focussed on improving its English teaching, it is a pity that Harris cannot ensure correct spelling in the school news…

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Sulivan opts to become an academy to protect its future wp.me/p3vt04-7M

Sulivan opts to become an academy

Governors of Sulivan School are proposing that their school becomes an academy to protect its future and prevent it being closed by Hammersmith and Fulham Council so they can use the land for a new…

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Admissions confusion explained wp.me/p3vt04-7G #harrismistakes

Admissions confusion explained

We have obtained an explanation of the confusion over the admissions policy of the Harris Junior Academy Carshalton (the school formerly known as Camden Juniors). See also our previous post. Appare…

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Admissions confusion explained

We have obtained an explanation of the confusion over the admissions policy of the Harris Junior Academy Carshalton (the school formerly known as Camden Juniors). See also our previous post. Appare…

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Harris email still not working! wp.me/p3vt04-7E

Harris email still not working

We have noticed that Harris have updated the website of the ‘school formerly known as Camden Juniors’ – They now show the school’s email address as info@harrisjuniorcarshalt…

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Headteacher – it changes again! wp.me/p3vt04-7C

Headteacher – it changes again

The school formerly known as Camden Juniors is due to have a permanent headteacher in the new year. We have been told that the person that Harris had originally selected as headteacher for the scho…

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Curious to know if any other Harris academy has had problems with omissions and errors. Please email us with your examples. Thank you.
Some confusion over Harris Carshalton admissions? wp.me/p3vt04-7y

Harris Carshalton admissions

Parents have raised concerns about the admissions policies of the ‘school formerly known as Camden Juniors’. Our attention has been drawn to the fact that neither the Harris Junior Acad…

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Harris Juniors Carshalton not on email! wp.me/p3vt04-7o

Harris Juniors Carshalton not on email!

It appears that either Harris do not know the school’s email address or do not want anyone to email them. On the Harris main website the email address for the school is shown on screen as har…

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Missed Opportunity wp.me/p3vt04-7b via @wordpressdotcom

Missed Opportunity

If the Harris Federation wanted a new school logo, there are many images they could have used that would  be more relevant to the school’s heritage and place in the local community than a hot…

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What's with the balloon? wp.me/p3vt04-76

What’s with the balloon?

The Harris Federation have imposed a logo of a hot air balloon in yellow on a dark blue background as the new school crest for what was Camden Junior School. On the basis that a logo means somethin…

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Camden is not alone wp.me/p3vt04-6X

Camden is not alone

The experience that parents and the local community have had dealing  with the Harris Federation and the Department for Education, over the take-over of Camden Junior School, is replicated in other…

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Why red and why the rose? wp.me/p3vt04-6R

Why red and why the rose?

The new logo imposed on Camden Junior School by Harris has abandoned a perfectly good logo that served Camden well and which had a real back story. Why red? The colour red comes from the arms of th…

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How to design a logo wp.me/s3vt04-416

How to design a logo

In the Guardian article Harris Federation made an astonishing statement regarding the design of the logo.   They said: We always try to involve pupils in the design of their school crest and in the…

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