Category: Media Coverage

Warwick Mansell is a well-known freelance education journalist and writer/editor for the website Education Uncovered. Astrea Academy Trust was featured in another of his articles this week. The article is published here, but does require a subscription: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/164486/traditionalist-academy-trust-with-multiple-layers-of-management-seeks-new-curriculum-director-on-up-to-100k.thtml

Today the curriculum cuts being rolled out at St Ivo have been featured in an article on Cambridge News. Read the article here: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridgeshire-secondary-school-slammed-after-26891394

Warwick Mansell is a well-known freelance education journalist and writer/editor for the website Education Uncovered. Astrea Academy Trust was featured in a number of his articles this week. The articles are published here, but do require a subscription: Article one (with teacher interviews) – https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/163811/nobody-feels-like-they-are-a-professional-any-more-staff-at-teach-like-a-champion-academy-lift-the-lid-on-concerns-about-trusts-centrallyimposed-teaching-and-behaviour-policies.thtml?fbclid=IwAR1vJRl_S_ZOvMA5WkmKQAgWabJzQNew441et2JAp3xRFsN_O2XtQZGMHLw Article two (a critique of the style of teaching Astrea are bringing…

Warm-Strict Schools: saving pupils or ‘another brick in the wall’? 26th April 2023 Our Chair, Dr Yasmin Finch, was invited to present ‘The Parent View’ on strict behaviour policies in schools at this event – more info here. Here is what she said… The parent view on behaviourist policies As soon as a parent first…

Today St Ivo Parents Forum was featured in another article on Cambridge News. Read the article here: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/teachers-st-ives-secondary-school-26550702

Warwick Mansell is a well-known freelance education journalist and writer/editor for the website Education Uncovered. St Ivo Parents Forum was featured in a number of his articles this week. The articles are published here, but do require a subscription: ➡️23rd March – Impact of Astrea’s behaviour policy at St Ivo: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/163341/my-dad-died-last-week-and-my-son-went-to-bed-crying-because-he-thought-he-would-get-a-detention-for-forgetting-his-spare-pen-parents-set-out-concerns-about-wellconnected-academy-trusts-behaviour-regime.thtml ➡️23rd March – Communal…

Today St Ivo Parents Forum was featured in another article on the Hunts Post. Read the article here: https://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/education/23395073.astrea-academy-trust-stand-strict-behaviour-policy/

Today St Ivo Parents Forum was featured on Cambridge News. Read the article here: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/parents-slam-st-ives-school-26409429

Today the ITV Anglia news story that was aired on the news yesterday at 6pm was made into a published article. You can read it here: https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-03-09/pupils-terrified-of-schools-discipline-crackdown