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Forum leadership update – 10.04.2024

Our chair, Deb McNeill, has stepped down due to other commitments. We’re delighted to announce however that St Ivo Parents Forum has a new chair who is taking up the reins and will be looking after the Forum going forward. Taking the post of chair is our former vice-chair, Ed Goodman. Ed moved to St…

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Forum leadership update – 19.01.2024

Our chair, Dr Michelle Canning, has stepped down due to other commitments. We’re delighted to announce however that St Ivo Parents Forum has a new chair and vice chair who are taking up the reins and will be looking after the Forum going forward. Taking the post of chair is our former vice-chair, Deborah McNeill.…

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NASUWT Letter to Parents – 05.11.2023

Thank you all for your continued and very valued support. This is a joint battle for the future success of St Ivo School and both the staff and students will benefit if we succeed in persuading Astrea to soften their approach and make it more suitable for your school…

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Media Coverage

Pedagogy of Professional Decline – 27.09.2023

Professor Rachel Lofthouse, Professor of Teacher Education in the Carnegie School of Education, explains the concept of ‘pedagogy of professional decline’, what inspired her to coin the phrase and why it is important to the current teaching landscape. She references Warwick Mansell’s latest exposé on Astrea’s teching practices, though does not reference them by name. Read…

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Education Uncovered Article – 20.09.2023

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/165556/teachers-at-astrea-secondary-academy-told-to-remove-all-items-from-the-front-of-their-classrooms-and-to-have-all-year-groups-reading-with-a-ruler.thtml

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Forum leadership update – 16.08.2023

Our chair, Dr Yasmin Finch, and our vice chair, Ed Goodman, reluctantly had to step down this summer. Ed has family illness that he is needing to focus on and Yasmin’s work situation is changing with her taking on more hours. We’re delighted to announce however that St Ivo Parents Forum has a new chair…

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Additional Education Uncovered Articles – 28.04.2023

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…

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Academy Of Ideas Forum

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…

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Meeting with local MP – 14.04.2023

St Ivo Parents Forum met with MP Jonathan Djanogly on 14th April at Shire Hall in Huntingdon. We took a group of parents and 3 students to share our concerns about Astrea Academy Trust policies. Jonathan listened carefully and has said he will help us in our campaign. He tweeted about the meeting saying, “It…

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Big Forum Meeting – 16.04.2023

We’d like to invite you to come and hear more about what the Parent Forum’s doing and why we’re doing it. We’d also like to hear from you about what you think we should tackle and any thoughts or ideas about how to support our children at St Ivo. The meeting will be at Slepe Hall…

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Government Petition – 30.03.2023

So, in the course of this whole Parent Forum journey we’ve become aware that behind the strict policies we’re seeing Astrea bring into St Ivo is a Government initiative called Behaviour Hub that roles out this kind of thing around the country. We’ve worked really hard to create a petition that can go straight to…

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Education Uncovered Articles – 23.03.2023

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…

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Restorative Behaviour Policies

Restorative behaviour policies have gained attention in recent years as an alternative approach to traditional punishment measures in addressing problematic behaviour. ✅ Restorative policies still have rules ✅ They still have high expectations about the classroom being ordered and calm ✅They still have consequences if a student misbehaves ✴️But they create a much more friendly…

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Want To Join?

The Parent Forum is open to any parents or carers of St Ivo Academy, Cambridgeshire, and any parents or carers of children in feeder primary schools.

A parent or carer can join the Parent Forum by joining our email list.

To join us…

Just drop us an email: stivoparentsforum@gmail.com