News Archive


  • Outstanding, it's official!

    Yvonne's school Marland Hill Primary School was inspected by Ofsted in October 2008 and judged outstanding in all areas.

  • Leaving Headship

    Rod left headship in September2008 to focus on his work with Weatherhead Projects Ltd as an independent leadership & learning consultant. His survival of twenty plus years of headship was celebrated with a wonderful party for colleagues, past and present, at the Bella Vista Restaurant, Rochdale in July 2008. Rod and Yvonne really enjoyed a brilliant occasion.

  • OFAT

    Rod completed the NCSL “On-line facilitation and tutoring programme (OFAT)” in 2008. It was intensive training but well structured and brought out for him the possibilities for deep learning offered by on-line training, given good facilitation and enthusiastic participants.

  • Community Cohesion

    Yvonne is working on a practical guide to Community Cohesion for primary schools. She is to be a key note speaker at a national Community Cohesion Conference organised by Optimus Education in London on 24th.March 2009. (Further details are available from russell.lawson@optimuseducation.co.uk)