Saraum Academy, Mud Sticks!

Imogen has had a very happy confident building two years at Sarum Academy, she is excelling as a star pupil, she is well liked by both pupils and staff, any issues she had in the early days had been sorted by the pastoral staff, she also knows that their is a network set up if she needs to talk to anyone. When the school archived Academy status I think a lot of people were quite upset about it, wanting the funding to go to the other schools which had the nicer rep.

The Head teacher is fairly new, but she has won the respect of her staff and pupils, Imogen is so loyal to her school, will not here a word against it. The head is giving every pupil there hope! Hope for a future, pushing life skills, mechanics, cooking things we really need to get by, she often puts her ideas out on a limb, but she listens to her pupils and her staff. Last years exam results were not bad at all, other schools in Salisbury did not fair much better, like every school there is a small element of pupils who spoil it for the good kids. It is time to stop mud slinging at all the good kids that go to this school we should as a community support them, show them that we can be proud of what they archive. The mud from the past is defiantly sticking, it did 5 or 6 years ago have a really bad rep, but now pupils are been shown what they can archive, how life can be different, that working hard does bring rewards, surely we should support this in our children. I do think that the new head made one mistake when she announced that children in her school would be receiving the ipad as a way of promoting good work ethos. That to me just gave so many people chance to complain, why tell at all!! People in the area went nuts, talking about that they do not have the money for an ipad let alone to reward a wayward student, in truth only the high achieving pupils would receive such rewards. What better way to show someone the rewards of hard work than giving them something which is very much an item of the moment.Imogen feels hurt when she reads in the paper that her school fails to meet the required standards and that the head teacher is throwing money away on fancy technology.

It is time to let Sarum Academy rise from the shadows, as the new build goes up the children and staff of that school; should be given clean slates to move forward and first to nurture themselves then secondly to prove opinion wrong and to flourish. Good luck to all the staff and pupils.

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