It can't be any worse than Moorland is now! Both my daughters were bullied all through the school and the teachers were useless, messages were never passed on and as far as im concerned nothing can be worse than it is now.

Jamie wrote:
So nice to see that the authorities are not giving in to certain backward thinking Darwen folk who want to keep the town in the 20th century. The academy is a fantastic prospect and the people of Darwen should embrace it. Millions of pounds are being invested for the education of your children, so they will have a chance to get decent GCSE grades and go to university. Unfortunately, there are still people who would prefer their children to go to Moorland or Darwen Vale. That really says a lot about Darwen.

Jamie, I like the idea of the academy its just the location i'm not keen on.

GP wrote:
Typical telegraph reporting trying to stir up controversy where there is non. The first sentance in this report is misleading and infamitory.

There *is* going to be a unifom - just not a traditional one, there *is* going to be a timetable - just not a traditional one and Darwen Moorland has never had school bells anyway.

Just wish more people who used this site could read properly and not rely on inaccurate introducatry paragraphs to make up their mind.

Nice to see Apolitical being his cheery glass half full self ;)

Yeah it has got school bells.

born and bread wrote:

Deano wrote: What confuses me is, if the academy opens its doors in the building of its predecessor this September, what was the point in demolishing all the houses in the redearth triangle. To me if the current site is suitable for the next two years why is it not suitable after that?

WELL SAID DEANO THATS WHY ALL THE PEOPLE WAS FIGHTING FOR THERE HOMES. THEY CLOSE LOWER MOORLAND THAT WAS ON KNOTT ST TO GET THE KID OUT OF THE TOWN CENTER. AND AND THEN 15 YEARS ON THE KICK PEOPLE OUT OF THEY HOME TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN THE TOWN CENTER. AND FOR ALL THESE THAT ARE MOANING ABOUT HOW THE SCHOOL IS GOING TO BE RUN ARE ALL TWOFACE C--TS! AND ALL FOR ALL THE PEOPLE TO MOVE OUT SO IT CAN BE BUILT, AND NOW YOU ARE ALL MOANING ABOUT IT YOU WHAT TO MAKE YOUR MIND UP IF YOU WHAT THE SCHOOL THERE ARE NOT

Can someone please translate this to english

Just one question and one correction.

Question.

Where have all the mouthy people like "A Parent" and "Amanda" gone? Before the remaining residents left the Redearth Street site, they were complaining on any post they could about How the selfish residents (or rats in Amanda's case) were denying there children the chance of attending a state of the art Academy. Now that it looks like they are going to get it, other people have started knocking it. Why do they not spring to its defence with the same vitriolic and demeaning vigour they employed then.

Correction

Work on the new town centre site, which will include the revolutionary changes, is due to start in June after a deal was finally done to ensure Redearth residents moved off the site.

Just to let you know Ms Pye, no deal has actually been done. If you actually bothered to research your stories instead of repeating the words of Capita/The Council, you would realize that it looks like that until a settlement figure has been agreed by the land tribunal then nothing has been agreed.

born and bread wrote:

Deano wrote: What confuses me is, if the academy opens its doors in the building of its predecessor this September, what was the point in demolishing all the houses in the redearth triangle. To me if the current site is suitable for the next two years why is it not suitable after that?

WELL SAID DEANO THATS WHY ALL THE PEOPLE WAS FIGHTING FOR THERE HOMES. THEY CLOSE LOWER MOORLAND THAT WAS ON KNOTT ST TO GET THE KID OUT OF THE TOWN CENTER. AND AND THEN 15 YEARS ON THE KICK PEOPLE OUT OF THEY HOME TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN THE TOWN CENTER. AND FOR ALL THESE THAT ARE MOANING ABOUT HOW THE SCHOOL IS GOING TO BE RUN ARE ALL TWOFACE C--TS! AND ALL FOR ALL THE PEOPLE TO MOVE OUT SO IT CAN BE BUILT, AND NOW YOU ARE ALL MOANING ABOUT IT YOU WHAT TO MAKE YOUR MIND UP IF YOU WHAT THE SCHOOL THERE ARE NOT

Ha Ha! This post just tells you all you need to know about the educational needs of Darwen people.
Darwen really needs to shake itself out of the days of horse and cart and come into the here and now. And just for all those who will spout off about those whose homes were demolished, mine was one of them and i had lived there for most of my life.

Maybe a fresh modern approach to educating the somewhat backward people of Darwen is something that is well needed.

Time for change!

adue wrote:
a academy built in 3 months time well that would be a miracle.

they not even knocked down all the houses yet

cant wait to see this is it another fine mess you've got us into blackburn with darwen and crapita (capita sorry)

i think if you read the story correctly it says the academy will take at least 18 months to complete. june 2008 start - moving in early 2010?????

Deano wrote:
What confuses me is, if the academy opens its doors in the building of its predecessor this September, what was the point in demolishing all the houses in the redearth triangle. To me if the current site is suitable for the next two years why is it not suitable after that?

WELL SAID DEANO THATS WHY ALL THE PEOPLE WAS FIGHTING FOR THERE HOMES. THEY CLOSE LOWER MOORLAND THAT WAS ON KNOTT ST TO GET THE KID OUT OF THE TOWN CENTER. AND AND THEN 15 YEARS ON THE KICK PEOPLE OUT OF THEY HOME TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN THE TOWN CENTER. AND FOR ALL THESE THAT ARE MOANING ABOUT HOW THE SCHOOL IS GOING TO BE RUN ARE ALL TWOFACE C--TS! AND ALL FOR ALL THE PEOPLE TO MOVE OUT SO IT CAN BE BUILT, AND NOW YOU ARE ALL MOANING ABOUT IT YOU WHAT TO MAKE YOUR MIND UP IF YOU WHAT THE SCHOOL THERE ARE NOT

GP wrote:
Typical telegraph reporting trying to stir up controversy where there is non. The first sentance in this report is misleading and infamitory. There *is* going to be a unifom - just not a traditional one, there *is* going to be a timetable - just not a traditional one and Darwen Moorland has never had school bells anyway. Just wish more people who used this site could read properly and not rely on inaccurate introducatry paragraphs to make up their mind. Nice to see Apolitical being his cheery glass half full self ;)

read? what about spelling? that is one of the worst, mis-spelt posts i've seen in a long time.

stones. glass. house.

a academy built in 3 months time well that would be a miracle.

they not even knocked down all the houses yet

cant wait to see this is it another fine mess you've got us into blackburn with darwen and crapita (capita sorry)

So nice to see that the authorities are not giving in to certain backward thinking Darwen folk who want to keep the town in the 20th century.

The academy is a fantastic prospect and the people of Darwen should embrace it. Millions of pounds are being invested for the education of your children, so they will have a chance to get decent GCSE grades and go to university.

Unfortunately, there are still people who would prefer their children to go to Moorland or Darwen Vale. That really says a lot about Darwen.

I think that this "State of the Art" Academy will not a good idea if their is no Traditional uniform and Timetables etc as well as School bells and I hope their will be discipline as well as some schools do not have any discipline at all and to me that is were some pupils go wrong and their seems that discipline is lacking now a days so it should be brought back ASAP. Lets hope they will listen and do what pepole want not what others think is right.

GP wrote:
Typical telegraph reporting trying to stir up controversy where there is non. The first sentance in this report is misleading and infamitory. There *is* going to be a unifom - just not a traditional one, there *is* going to be a timetable - just not a traditional one and Darwen Moorland has never had school bells anyway. Just wish more people who used this site could read properly and not rely on inaccurate introducatry paragraphs to make up their mind. Nice to see Apolitical being his cheery glass half full self ;)

Moorland had school bells when I attended!!!! I can see this academy being moaned about for years to come - Darwen, the place where everyone complains about everything!!

Typical telegraph reporting trying to stir up controversy where there is non. The first sentance in this report is misleading and infamitory.

There *is* going to be a unifom - just not a traditional one, there *is* going to be a timetable - just not a traditional one and Darwen Moorland has never had school bells anyway.

Just wish more people who used this site could read properly and not rely on inaccurate introducatry paragraphs to make up their mind.

Nice to see Apolitical being his cheery glass half full self ;)

STOP WHINGEING ,A SCHOOL IS A SCHOOL , IF A KID WANTS TO LEARN THEY WILL . I WENT TO MOORLAND AND I AM NOW ONE OF THE WORLDS GREATEST ROCKET SCIENTISTS , SO ANYTHINGS POSSIBLE .

It doesn't say doing away with uniforms it say doing away with "traditional" uniforms. It doesn't say start and finish times will be flexible, it says break times will be staggered and the "traditional" timetable will go.

Stop reading things into the story that aren't there and give them a chance to prove themselves, they can't do much worse than Moorland being in special measures can they?

Mike wrote:
Jay - its \\\'All that GLISTERS is not gold.\\\' Rather ironically shows up your education !

Mike: I always knew it
as all that GLISTENS is not gold.
What's glisters anyway? Where did they teach you that?

Pride in one’s school uniform is fundamental to top class education . It is fundamental to the good behaviour and discipline, in the pupil not wanting to let down his/her school, when travelling to and from. I have seen headmasters abolish uniforms, heaven knows why, possibly because they have no faith in the children under their charge. Almost always on the appointment of a new head uniforms are re-introduced – heed the warning Brendan Loughran.

A total capacity of 1600 academy places, when realistically less than 1000 are needed. Why only have dining facilities for 240. Overall staff will be about 150 and yet there will be less than 100 parking spaces.

State of the art building? What a misrepresentation, within a decade the town populace will be calling for it to be pulled down – it is shaped like a piece of cheese and is a characterless glass structure.

Why on earth is there to be an Entrepreneurial specialism in Darwen Academy defeats all logic, but this is why Rod Aldridge wanted the town centre site, in order that pupils could gain experience from local businesses – but the question is ‘what businesses’? And why were 150 families evicted from their homes at the whim of the former Capita Chief Executive. The council are now sceptical at the wisdom of outsourcing various administrative tasks to Capita to the financial detriment of the local tax payer. My grandchildren would have been educated in Blackburn with Darwen but I am not optimistic as the education of our children will be in the hands of an individual who was accused of providing educational funding for his own aggrandizement.

Where are the playing fields, where is the fresh air for the health of our children?

Jay - its 'All that GLISTERS is not gold.'

Rather ironically shows up your education !

What confuses me is, if the academy opens its doors in the building of its predecessor this September, what was the point in demolishing all the houses in the redearth triangle. To me if the current site is suitable for the next two years why is it not suitable after that?

WELL WHAT CAN I SAY??? THERE WAS ME THINKING WHEN MY KIDS GO TO HIGH SCHOOL THEY'RE FEEL THEY HAD TO KNUCKLE DOWN AND WORK HARD,from sept 2009 my daughter will be doing god knows what god knows where GOOD LUCK TO PARENTS WHO HAVE TO DEAL WITH SO CALLED METHOD SCHOOL LIFE BEFORE ME

I would not get rid of the uniform altogother just modernise it, let the students design their own uniform, get them invovled from the beginning.

What a dreadful idea. Children need a sense of routine and a clear sense of boundaries. This flies in the face of reason; have we all caught the dreadful New Labour disease of change for change's sake'? Let's just remember what past trendy educational tinkering has brought us: comprehensive schools; the GCSE; pupils on the interview panel for new teaching posts. No wonder that in the richest parts of Britain, a quarter of parents vote with their feet, and opt out of state schools. There's no such trendy idiocy in the independent sector, and if Darwen Academy wants to be as good as the independent sector, perhaps it will take note.

Already on flexi time aren't they? Or is it 'continental school days ?'.

Used to finish every day around 3.30 once, depending where you were in the country but that was general finishing time and earlier for primary school children.

Now they come out different times each day. Is there a 'tier' system in operation, eg certain years come out earlier than others? Either way, they cause a nuisance of themselves whichever year they are ...

God forbid you get in the way of their parents picking their little 'angels' up from school.

LET reported a while ago a case in Langho where a police officer was deluged in spital by parents who refused to remove their cars from the public highway in Langho primary school. Nice, eh? Wanna know where kids learn vulgar behaviour?

On the subject of the academy itself, which has generated enough controversy throug the years ...

It's interesting to note that there are an increasing number of parents throughout the country *some live in far better, much wealthier areas than Darwen; Darwen and 'affluent' don't go together, cos it's not* and you'd imagine were intellectually intelligent enough to realize when something isn't right with their child's education are removing their children from these academies.

Some out there might want to ask themselves why these parents are now doing this?

All that glitters is not gold. Some are still getting fooled by seeing the words 'academy' and millions of pounds on sports facilities. There is far more to a child's education than these trappings.

As I said, parents in some parts of the country, some living in rural or well to do areas of London or the home counties, are removing or trying to get their children into non-academy schooling.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize a few things about that? Does it.

But, there again, parents often get so selfish they cannot see the wood for the trees when choosing what they consider is the best school for their children. Hence why so many are naively being led into this academy thing.

Burnley has one. Lots of problems. Too big, cannot cope. Problems arise. Who is the person suffering in the end - your children!

Great the kids will be able to turn up when they want.
Dont think that will be very often.