Rugby Free School
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:24 pm
Did anybody visit Rugby Free School last night?
We did. I wasn't very impressed. It has only been open a week and it isn't nearly fully built so there was not much to see. There were lots of parents there and it was very hot, which didn't help.
Ds2 noticed that the work in the maths books on display was terribly easy - calculating in tens - and a friend looked at the English and said the work had been marked and the teacher who marked it hadn't noticed basic grammar mistakes.
I don't know if it was just the lower sets who had work on display.
I found the headmistress a little scary (maybe they all are). Said she knows every child and all parents (that probably isn't hard with 100 max. students) and said she would know every child. I didn't take to her personally, but that could be just me. She spent a long time telling us that the poor radiators, buildings, toilets, classroom sizes etc etc didn't mean it was a bad school. I have no idea where dc study food tec, science, sport. Not much room to run around, either.
I had to laugh a little. My ds saw the architect's drawing of how the school will look like when finished by 2018 and fell in love with the school. It's a STEMM school, he also fell in love with the word "engineering". I'm sure most schools do engineering in one way or another, maybe under another name ... dt/physics/ I know the gs does engineering. At least he listened through the talk.
I wondered if anyone else looked round it and what they thought?
We did. I wasn't very impressed. It has only been open a week and it isn't nearly fully built so there was not much to see. There were lots of parents there and it was very hot, which didn't help.
Ds2 noticed that the work in the maths books on display was terribly easy - calculating in tens - and a friend looked at the English and said the work had been marked and the teacher who marked it hadn't noticed basic grammar mistakes.
I don't know if it was just the lower sets who had work on display.
I found the headmistress a little scary (maybe they all are). Said she knows every child and all parents (that probably isn't hard with 100 max. students) and said she would know every child. I didn't take to her personally, but that could be just me. She spent a long time telling us that the poor radiators, buildings, toilets, classroom sizes etc etc didn't mean it was a bad school. I have no idea where dc study food tec, science, sport. Not much room to run around, either.
I had to laugh a little. My ds saw the architect's drawing of how the school will look like when finished by 2018 and fell in love with the school. It's a STEMM school, he also fell in love with the word "engineering". I'm sure most schools do engineering in one way or another, maybe under another name ... dt/physics/ I know the gs does engineering. At least he listened through the talk.
I wondered if anyone else looked round it and what they thought?