Plans for Atherton Community School continue to progress and Chapel St - the sponsor of the new school - have now announced the appointment of Elizabeth Haddock as the Principal Designate of the new school, which is due to open this September.
Elizabeth will soon be taking up her post, in order to get fully immersed in the plans and preparations for the school and will be attending Chapel St’s next community consultation meeting at 7.30 pm on 1st February 2012, for local parents and carers. (Venue: Jubilee Hall Function Room, St Richard Parish Centre, Stanley Street, Atherton).
Elizabeth has considerable experience in successfully raising attainment and aspirations in education as well as having the track record of successfully opening two academies.
Her teaching experience began in Mexborough, a South Yorkshire mining village where her interest in working alongside communities began. She has had almost 30 years of teaching in a range of schools both in Britain and overseas, at all levels of seniority.
Elizabeth successfully opened Salford City Academy where she led the transformation of education from satisfactory to good over her five years tenure with substantial improvements across the board in all indicators. Her recent post was as Acting Principal of St Peter’s Academy, Stoke on Trent where she rescued the project to successfully open in September 2011.
‘I am thrilled to be taking on the post of Principal Designate of Atherton Community School. I am looking forward to working with the whole community to create a school that will have a significant and lasting impact that the whole town can be proud of,’ says Elizabeth.
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As well as meeting the new Principal, Chapel St’s next community consultation meeting will provide community members with another important opportunity to complete a consultation survey. Chapel St have created the survey to gather views and opinions about the school.
As with every Free School project around the country, Chapel St are required to demonstrate to the Department for Education the local demand for the school, and this survey is part of a consultation process that started on 17th December and runs to 17th February 2012. Paper versions of the survey have been circulated to the community and an online version is also available.
‘It’s been a community-wide effort to turn Atherton Community School into a possibility and we are absolutely delighted to announce that Elizabeth will be joining Chapel St to help make the school a reality. We’d like to thank the community for all of the school place applications and consultation surveys that they have sent in so far. If Atherton Community School is important to you, please do keep sending them in to us.’ says Russell Rook, CEO of Chapel St.
If Atherton Community School is important to you and you would like to complete the survey, please visit the link [HERE] by the 17th February 2012.
If you would prefer to receive a paper copy of the questionnaire - or if you would like an application form for a school place - please email: penny.vancleef@chapelst.org
For more information about Atherton Community School, visit: http://www.athertoncommunityschool.com
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