cmacki

Thanks for the recommendation. I asked Sergio to help with a significant decoration/refurb in December and he and his team did a great job. He showed up at meetings in a timely manner, is easy to talk to and agree on the work (all of his team are polite and friendly) and the quality of work is really excellent with good attention to detail. Generally his team seems to be able to tackle any building work beyond decoration/painting (they did for me) and I know Sergio also does roofing work. Anyway I also recommend him, his website is https://www.smdasilva.co.uk/.

I know this is quite an old thread but I was wondering where you can find the results of the review. I couldn't find it on the Southwark website. Presumably they deemed Heber School to still be an appropriate venue, in my opinion this is wrong. The issue isn't so much whether it affects our children's education (which it also does) but the overall impact it has. For example for working parents it means arranging one off childcare which is difficult - we use the after school club located at Heber School but that isn't available. Overall using Heber School as a polling station impacts hundreds of pupils and probably thousands of people. There are many other venues which are largely empty during the day which are much more appropriate. Ones that spring to mind which are also very close, are a couple of church halls and the East Dulwich community centre. Using these will have a much smaller impact on locals, makes use of more or less public buildings that should be used more and emphasises the importance of these non-school community buildings.

I have forwarded this thread to [email protected]. I recommend anyone else who thinks clarkes should do something about their drivers do the same.

What I'm saying is if you are going to open a school do it the right way. I'm against single sex schools for obvious reasons (no offence to anyone who has been to one, many of friends have) and I think James has a point as well. However lets step back a moment. The first I heard of this was through a questionnaire about the proposal. If you canvas people about opening a school the instant reaction is to say 'yeah, that's a great idea' after all on the face of it opening a school is miles better than opening another Tesco's and all in all schools are beneficial to the local community. So it was obviously going to get luke warm/hot reaction consequently it was obvious that the proposal would go ahead. I wish the questionnaire would have explored more relevant questions such as 'should it be a single sex school?'

Yes, agreed. I came on a bit strong, I'll change my statement to: "Like many single sex schools it instigates or worse, reinforces the concept of separation in society form a young age. This is part of the foundation on which religious, racial, cultural and ethnic prejudice is built." ...still a pretty bad decision, in my opinion.

Terrible decision. Like all single sex schools it instigates or worse, reinforces the concept of separation in society form a young age. This is the foundation on which religious, racial, cultural and ethnic prejudice is built. Appalling, appalling appalling.