Hull school falls into special measures

“I am a parent of children who have been through the school , have children currently being educated there and a child due to start in September. I have experienced the highs and lows of this school and this is the lowest it could get. Parents with little experience of the school are mortified by the result but there are many parents who have a longer experience of the school and the raw facts of the matter are the leadership has led to the downfall of the school. Mismanagement of budget issues, refusal to accept help from the diocese and the local authority or the governors of the school. Yes the EAL students has a higher than average percentage within the school but this could have managed with appropriately qualified teachers of EAL incorporated within the school over a gradual basis in line with the increase of admissions of EAL students.”

“"St Vincent's Primary School has been criticised for failing to provide an acceptable standard of education to pupils."

Here we go again. Let's search for someone to blame. Could it be the kids who are just thick? Doubt it. Could it be the head or teachers who are not up to the job? Probably people who have stuck with this school when they could have ditched it and gone for an easier option. It looks like the head moved on; another career trashed for some political symbolism.

Failing to provide and acceptable standard? It think it's failing to provide an acceptable level of resources to the school in the first place. Will we now be treated to seeing a new leadership team awash with resources and facilities and help that the present team were denied?

Both kids and teachers deserve the best. Resource them properly in the first place.”

“I am very saddened to hear the demise of St. Vincent's. My four children went to St. Vincent's, at the time, we felt priviledged for them to attend, with us being non catholic. They had a fantastic start to their education, which was down to the teacher staff, especially Mr Garvey, the headteacher at the time. When my last child left St. Vincent's, they started introducing special needs children, giving them one on one tuition, which at the time, i think was for financial gain, then of course, you get the non-english children coming to the school, what with the language barrier, it can only put a further strain on the whole school, i don't think the local authority has catered for that; but it must have an impact on the education, the strain on resources, i believe, has taken it's toll on St. Vincent's, i think the teachers have got a very difficult job turning it round without the backing of the local authority, like everything in life, it's all down to money. It would be interesting to see how St. Mary's will cope with the transition of students from St. Vincent's.”

“This really surprises and saddens me, my son went to this school after being bullied at 2 previous primary schools, and he never had any problems at St Vincents. Standards were high there, but this was when the previous headteacher was there, maybe that could possibly be a reason. Bumblebeard you're talking rubbish, it's well known that a lot of our non British citizens value education and often perform better at school than the local kids, whose parents don't value education. Did you not know that a kid from one of our senior schools who was from Afghanistan just got into Eton??? Look at Hymers College and you will see a higher than average percentage of non English kids. Think!!”

“All as a result of toni blairs disastrous policy of imposing unwanted multiculturalism on our society, if you import mediocrity you get an irreversible fall in standards; Shame on all the traitors of the three main parties in Westminster.”

“standard response as yet another school falls into special measures in Hull, how many more to follow?”