Mark Siswick, Executive Headteacher of Chesterton Primary School, in south London, and co-founder of the Wandle Learning Trust, was honoured for services to education in the New Year’s Honours list by being awarded an MBE. The Northern Echo writes: “During the pandemic, he helped to create a national home learning programme, filming more than 100 lessons in phonics and reading to try and stop youngsters from falling behind.”
His founding of the Wandle Learning Trust was to him one of is most exciting achievements, and it’s one for which he deserves national recognition. About a decade ago he and his colleagues worked in partnership with a local secondary school, Chestnut Grove Academy. He exclaims that together they have done some great pieces of work. Chestnut Grove became an academy around 2012, and the two schools formed a trust in 2017. The foundations of which were their strong partnership.
Click here to read the full article.
Recent Comments