Cheadle Hulme Education Trust, which is responsible for the outstanding Cheadle Hulme High School, is leading an exciting bid for a new primary school to serve the Cheadle Hulme area. The new school would be a free school, sponsored by the Trust.
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The new free school, West Didsbury CofE Primary, will be open in West Didsbury in September 2015. It has grown out of a successful free school Didsbury CofE Primary and will run alongside… The application for September 2015 entry begins in September 2014.
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Most schools in South Manchester are massively oversubscribed. The answer? Open more schools. Rev Dr Nick Bundock of St James and Emmanuel Didsbury, with his team is doing just that. | Interview on opening new free school in Didsbury.
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When I started working as a teacher all the schools in the area had been comprehensives. It quickly became clear that several schools were more popular. A little research disclosed that those schools usually occupied buildings which previously had been grammar schools… their reputations as good schools had survived, even when some of them were mediocre.
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Two years ago, the first applications to open Free Schools were submitted to DfE amidst much suspicion, avid scrutiny and sensationalist publicity. Local authorities were hostile and pundits were convinced the concept wouldn’t work. What a difference twenty-four months make!
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