Cleaner Marge celebrates 90th birthday at work
KEEPING 90th birthday celebrations a secret from cleaner Marge Rose turned into a military operation at The Mall shopping centre, Maid- stone. However, OperationMangoprovedahugesuc-
cess, with Marge treated to an early morning partywith her colleagues, family and friends. Paul Alcock, general manager of the centre,
said: “Marge has been a cleaner here for 28 years and knows everything that’s going on, everything about her jobandeveryonewhouses the centre; she’s a real character. So, trying to keep her party a surprisewas nomean achieve- ment, especially when she came on the radio asking what Operation Mangowas all about.” Margehas been cleaning at the mall, fivedays
Bike seized AQUADbikethatwas being ridden and causing a nuisance in Park Wood has been seized by police. Police received reports of a
black quad bike being driven dangerously in the Reculver Walk area of Maidstone. Local police community sup-
port officers David Earl and Matthew Williams went to the scene and found the bike and its rider. The quad bike was seized and
a 17-year-old boy was reported for offences including driving without a licence and without insurance. The owner of the quad bike
was also identified, and he was issued with a warning around anti-social use of the quad bike.
a week, since she was 62. The spritely 90-year- old – thought to be the oldest cleaner in Britain – is proud that she has only taken one day off sick in that time. In fact, Margewasn’t going to lether birthday stand intheway ofherwork and insisted the management hold any get together outside ofwork hours, before she got started! Paul said: “Somany goodworkers likeMarge
areallowedto slip through thenet. Sheis fit and active and very capable. As long as she is able and still enjoying her work she will have a job here.”
Marge worked as a land girl during the war
andspent21yearspicking fruitatFirmins in Lin- ton, aswell as bringing up a large family, before startingwork at TheMall.
The Mall’s regional operations manager Sara Jones, Marge Rose and general manager Paul Alcock
School ‘set to make progress’
LOOSE Infant School has been told by Ofsted that it requires improvement. The Loose Road school scored
grade 3 (inadequate) in every category when it was inspected in June. Pupils’ achievement was not
good enough and some teachers did not make expectations clear nor did they set work that matched the needs of individ- ual pupils, the report found. Behaviour management and
themarking of pupils’ work was not consistent, subject leaders, other than those responsible for English and maths, were not monitoring lessons sufficiently and information collected in the Early Years Foundation Stage
about children’s progress was not used efficiently. On the positive side, atten-
dance was above average, spe- cialist teaching programmes were particularly effective, sen- ior leaders, governors and the local authority had started to make improvements and pupils were well-behaved. Jay Pye, executive head teacher of Loose Schools' Feder- ation said: “While the recentOf- sted report will understandably cause parents some concern, the inspection team recognised that significant improvements have taken place this year. “A new pupil tracking system
has been successfully introduced to address the inconsistency in
standards and the historic lack of accurate information about pupil progress data. “Leadership and management
issues and staff turnover have been addressed. The schoolwas fully staffed for September and very well placed to continue to make good progress. “Governors are keen to strongly reassure parents and carers that the school is already well on the way towards achieving a good standard of performance across all areas, in- cluded in theOfsted inspection. “Parents will be kept fully in- formed of the school’s progress through a newsletter sent out each term (six times per year) from governors.”
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