John Roan Resists
John Roan NUT
Campaign Toolkit
John Roan Resists
@JohnRoanResists
The John Roan NUT
@thejohnroannut
Welcome to our DIY campaign toolkit!
In this toolkit, we hope to provide information that will get your message across and help you to communicate with individuals and organisations that have the power to make decisions and effect change.
Please let us know if we can add any other information or ideas – this is all new to us too!
Thanks
John Roan Resists and The John Roan NUT
John Roan Governors and Childrens’ Services and Governance
If you want to raise any issues about decision making in the school then you can email the Headteacher: Nadine Powrie at
If you want to raise issues about the strategic direction of the school or communicate with Governors you can email via these addresses. If you want to raise issues about the governance of the school then you can email the Chair of Governors and the Clerk of Governors and well as the Head of Governor’s Services.
Chair of Governors, Patrick Cooper at: ;
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Head of Children’s Services: ;
Clerk of governors is Brian Vallely:;
Howard Burton is the Head of Governors Services:
Parental Ballot
If you want to raise the issue of a parental ballot then you can email the Governors (above) as well as Stephen O’Hare who is the Electoral Services Manager at Greenwich Council. JSRA is a parents group attached to the school who organise events and social activities on behalf of parents.
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Questioning Finance Claims and the restructuring proposal
If you want to ask questions about the budget and the restructuring proposals then direct your letters and and comments to:
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Debbie Turner is Business Officer of the school. Terry Miller is Head of School Resources at Greenwich Council; Debbie Warren is the Greenwich Council Director of Finance and in charge of Human Resources professional Services and in charge of Law and Governance; Brendan Costello is Assistant Director of Finances in charge of Governance and Audit.
Any Freedom of Information requests (FOI) are to be directed to Debbie Turner:
Questioning the Rationale and impact of the Restructuring:e.g. impact on SEN provision, pastoral contact time, balanced and comprehensive curriculum etc.
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Tracy Russell is Assistant Director of Children’s Services in charge of Inclusion, Learning and Achievement; Julia Phillips is Head of Integrated support Children & Families, Andrew O’Sullivan works in Child Safeguarding.
John Roan School
If you want to raise child safety issues within the school then the relevant persons to contact are these:
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Claire Flynn is the School’s designated Safeguarding officer
GALs (Effectively Heads of Year) L Thomas (7) T Sumner (8) S Rasul (9) J Hopkins (10) M Sayers (11) L Ward ( 6th form)
G Palmer Director of Childrens’ services Greenwich Council, Greenwich Safeguarding Children Board; Ken Palmer Child Protection coordinator schools Greenwich.
Greenwich Royal Borough and Councillors
Here is the list of Councillors for Greenwich:
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Organising deputations and asking questions to Council meetings
We have organised a deputation and have regularly submitted questions to the Council. You can check the Royal Borough of Greenwich website for the calendar of Council meetings. You normally have to submit requests for deputation and questions a week before the meeting:
To send in questions for the Council to answer during public meetings to Jean Riddler:
Robert Sutton – Standards Committee 0208 9215134
Local MPs
Lewisham East Heidi Alexander (Labour)
Lewisham West & PengeJim Dowd (Labour)
ElthanClive Efford (Labour)
Lewisham DeptfordVicky Foxcroft (Labour)
Erith and ThamesmeadTeresa Pearce (Labour)
Greenwich and WoolwichMatthew Pennycook (Labour)
Bexley and Sidcup James Brokenshire (Conservative)
Bexleyheath and Crayford David Evennett(Conservative)
Bromley and ChislehurstBob Neill (Conservative)
Media
Newsshopper: Jess Bell (07787 273803)
South London Press: Mandy Little: Tel: 0208 835 9710
Letters to the TES editorl: 020 3194 3000
TES editoriall: 020 3194 3000
Guardian: Teacher Network: Rebecca Ratcliffe: @GuardianTeach
Education Unions:
NUT: NASUWT , ATL
Tim Woodcock Greenwich NUT;
Petitions
We have used our petitions:
If you want to start a nationwide campaign and push to have it discussed in Parliament sign into:
Social Media
Every campaign needs a Facebook and twitter account – they are easy to set up and if you share the admin role you can ensure that your ideas and activities reach a wide audience: here are some of the Facebook pages and groups we support:
John Roan Resists, Our School Our Voice, John Roan Student Union, Greenwich NUT, Rescue our Schools, Classroom Activist Network, Education Activist Network….