So we have the names of teachers who are leaving, joining, and classes they are teaching next year. I have to confess here to being outside the teaching profession, so excuse my naievity, but a few points occur to me:
Miss N Smith had only been in the school a year, why such a quick departure? Miss Smith was the much lauded Head of Inclusion - do we have a new one?
I understand that a large proportion of the new appointments are Probationery teachers - again. While I applaude new and young blood, I am a bit alarmed that my kids may be taught by a succession of newly qualified staff - surely the best for a school is a balance of experience and youth? And can even the omni-present and much talented Mrs Cleugh give this number of newly qualified staff the support they need in their first years as teachers?
I recognise hardly any names on the list for next year - obviously Mrs Cunningham and Sr Pat, Mr Buyers is now looking like a wise and long-standing teacher, great that Ms Anderson is still with us, also the other Miss Smith...
Weird that Mrs Dorcas Afriye has been with the school for almost a year, but Mrs Cleugh has only just decided to "welcome her" now??? Is this a euphemism for giving her a permanent job? Anyway, welcome Mrs Afriye, sorry it took so long...
And what is it with temporary contracts? Should we not be giving teachers who join our lovely school a feeling of confidence that a permanent post would signal???
Oh, and why has the departure of Mrs Hingley, Mrs Melham and the Reception Learning Support Assistant not been announced? Surely their posts need to be filled?
And you see, if the full number of staff leaving is not spelt out honestly, how can parents trust what Mrs Cleugh tells us?
Finally...the lovely space in the Newsletters for the Governors to keep us informed of their actions on behalf of the school - did I miss the announcement of the resignation of two governors? And the reasons for their resignation?
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The figure of 6 staff leaving from an earlier blog proved unfortunately to be an under-estimate. There will be 11 members of staff leaving including the 3 Learning support assistants Mrs Lamanto and the P.E. teacher who suddenly left in May. Therefore a near repeat performance of last July. It is also necessary to include those that left at Christmas. So simple addition will conclude that close to 30 members of staff have left St Vincent's since the arrival of Mrs Cleugh. This is within 18 months. This surely demands some serious investigation from the Ealing Education Authority.
The governors have yet again failed to provide the stability a that the school requires. Ealing Education Authority needs to look at the way in which the school has been managed and governed?
Very concerned members of the Community of St Vincent’s School
The NUT (National Union of Teachers), GMB and UNISON (Unions for school support staff) are fully aware of Mrs Cleugh and her management style. When staff from St Vincent’s who have never needed to call the unions before, made contact they were told that the union had been expecting a call from the school but not quite so soon. They were told that there had been a lot of union involvement at Mrs Cleugh’s previous school (St Mary’s Hillingdon) and that within 2 years there had been a 100% turnover of staff. The point was made that Mrs Cleugh felt herself to be invulnerable due to strong support in the Diocese. Many of the staff in both communities were DESKILLED, DEVALUED AND DEMOTED and therefore had no option but to leave.
GMB (St Mary’s) ‘In one of the worse cases of dictatorial oppression discovered at one of our schools, GMB Hillingdon Branch are working together with the Board of Governors to re-establish the balance.’
NUT (St Vincent’s) ‘given this extraordinary haemorrhage of staff I notified the local Authority Head of Human Resources Mr ----------- about our concerns. (There was one other Ealing school causing the NUT similar concern.) He later indicated to me that he had enquired of the chair of governors about this situation and been told that it was nothing to worry about.’
UNISON (St Vincent’s) – Current union involvement concerning a Formal Grievance against the Head Teacher Mrs Cleugh by a present member of staff from St Vincent’s.
I've just heard that today in the fre Ealing Times there is an article about St. Vincent's, Mrs. Cleugh, and the current investigation. I haven't seen the article. Wonder if it will also be carried by the Ealing Gazette and Ealing Leader.
Has anybody seen the article?
This is a venomous little campaign, isn't it? Fed by inside information from disgruntled employees, these campaigners won't reveal their real names. Why not? I have no idea whether any of these nasty little allegations are true or not, but real objectors stand up, identify themselves, and are truly counted. Not a great example of Christian charity is it?
Hello from Teresa Roscow
Oh sad sad "venomous little campaign" anonymous person, complaining of people who won't reveal their names...
here I am, my name is clearly stated. I have talked to people on both sides and I know the breadth and depth of Mrs Cleugh's bullying and threats. I have asked people in authority to act and they have not.
So I choose to act, and I am not particularly going to tell YOU what I am doing, as we live in a democracy (although that may seem like new news around our school...)
I suspect you are a governor, do your job instead of posting useless little comments here, the post that you so despise.
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