Thursday 30 August 2007

( nr. 25 ) Verbatim the article in "The News" dated Thursday, September 21, 2006,

titled "Innovative headteacher takes her ideas to Beijing workshop" :

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A HEADTEACHER will take radical education methods from Gosport across the world to China to pass her skills to other experts.
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Cheryl Heron, pictured, the headteacher of Bridgemary Community Sports College, Gosport, is one of only 100 people to be invited to Beijing next month to attend a workshop organised by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) aimed at exchanging and developing innovative educational ideas.
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Bridgemary college is one of 2,900 secondary schools, special schoools and academies in the SSAT network.
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Mrs Heron said: 'I feel very proud to have been invited to this event and receiving such an honour.
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' I'm very much looking forward to exchanging ideas about teaching and running a school with other heads from around the world, and even bringing those ideas back to Hampshire'.
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The headteacher, appointed in 2001, has a history of introducing innovative policies.
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She has introduced sniffer dogs to check for drugs and arranged classes based on ability not age.
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Inspired by American summer schools, Mrs Heron most recently argued that the traditional school timetable is a century out of date and needs to be more modern and flexible.
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She has asked the government if she can introduce a rolling programme of lessons at Bridgemary, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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And her controversial approach has been praised in Ofsted reports.

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This article, which I quoted from on Expatica Forum, is missing (!) in the archives of the newspaper www.portsmouth.co.uk . I shall scan the cut-out when a scanner gets operational.