MP Celebrates Academy Application Acceptance

Yesterday during the Business of the House debate in the House of Commons Tamworth’s MP, Christopher Pincher, celebrated the news that Belgrave High School’s application to become an academy has been accepted.

Mr Pincher said. “Earlier this week, Belgrave high school in Tamworth received the welcome news that its application to become an academy has been given the go-ahead by the Department for Education, affording its students, who suffer some challenging backgrounds, a real opportunity to succeed.

“I echo warmly the call of my hon. Friend Gavin Barwell for a debate on the opportunities afforded by academies, focusing particularly on the benefit of vertical integration between primary and secondary academies.”

George Young (Leader of the House of Commons) replied, “My hon. Friend raises an interesting angle in the academy debate by drawing the House’s attention to the links between primary and secondary education. As I said earlier, GCSE records indicate faster improvement among schools that have become academies than in the rest of the school population.

“I hope that other schools in his constituency will follow the example of the one to which he has referred and go for academy status, with the benefits and freedoms that go with it.”