🚨STRIKE ACTION AT PEACEHAVEN HEIGHTS!🚨 Further strike action will be taking place by the at #Peacehaven Heights on Tuesday 25th May. There will be picket lines and a protest outside County Hall in Lewes from 9am before the full council meeting. Full details in the picture.

Kids and parents say ‘hands off our school’ to unwanted academy order. By Jasmine Norden thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/0…

Article by Canary regarding strike action next week. thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/0…

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Cllr Standley, Lead Member for Education Services and Stuart Gallimore, Director of Children’s Services, have agreed to meet 3 representatives at 9am in County Hall. An National Education Union South East official, staff member and parent will meet them and feedback to the group outside afterwards.

🚨TAKE ACTION!🚨 Day 2 of strike action at #Peacehaven Heights Primary against the threat of academisation. Write to @RSC_SESL to ask her to reject them until consultation is complete! 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/reject… ✍️

Press Release regarding the Hands Off Peacehaven Schools campaign #Peacehaven staff and parents protest academy plans outside #Lewes County Hall

Solidarity with the parents, teachers & supporters of Peacehaven Heights School who lobbied the Council today against forced academisation.

Lewes TUC members are proud to have stood with NEU colleagues today in the lobby of ESCC against forced academisation of Peacehaven Heights School.

No more academies. Not at Peacehaven Heights School. Not anywhere. The fight goes on. Solidarity with the NEU.

Lewes Trades Union Council fully supports the parents & teachers at Peacehaven Heights School. No to more academies in Sussex.

'We feel let down' - parents protest at county hall over school academy plans theargus.co.uk/news/19327993.…

Second day of strike action at Peacehaven Heights School sussexexpress.co.uk/education/seco…

When your Multi Academy Trust (MAT) decides to increase the amount of money they take from your school, the Government gives you these options: ❌No choice (you can’t leave)* ❌No voice (you’ve got no vote)** ❌No regulation to rely on. thread 1/3

New: Regional Schools Commissioner says school governing bodies must demonstrate to the government that they have taken objections to academisation seriously. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/151181/re…

Oh yes, and DfE also reported to have removed the need for schools to be "answerable" to communities and parents from its governance handbook. Nice one. (Btw this piece references RSC letter to Peacehaven Heights primary, first covered by Warwick Mansell): schoolsweek.co.uk/rscs-push-to-g…

"Schools are accountable to many stakeholders beyond parents," so no need for them to be answerable to communities. What a load of nonsense: academies only legally answerable to DfE and unelected trust itself. That's the problem of remoteness.

In 2019, a top Ofsted official said that the curriculum in England's schools “started to suffer” because of academisation. tes.com/news/ofsted-cu…

Everything we feared about academisation has come true. Our children are suffering in this bullying culture. The staff can't be happy either. @HandsOffMPS Warwick Mansell How to Dismantle State Education in 10 Easy Steps @antiacademies LoseTheBooths Kate Green 💙 HandsOffOurSchools Hands Off Peacehaven Schools Kevin Courtney @MaryBoustedNEU