July/August 2015
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Help us keep our green
RESIDENTS of Step Stile Estate at East Malling have launched a campaign for an open space near their homes to be preserved for posterity as a village green.
They are working with local councillors to get Step Stile Estate Green, which is bounded by Carnation Crescent and Columbine Road, designated as an official village green.
If successful, the green would be protected far into the future for the use of residents and visitors. To achieve this, the campaign needs to show evidence that the space has been used by local people as a playing field for many activities including cricket, football, rounders, tree climbing, chasing, camp making and dog walking far back into the last century.
Members of residents’ group East Malling RAG have appealed for people
Step Stile’s “Village Green”
to share their stories and pictures of the green over the years. The group said: “If you have photographs that you are willing to share – we can copy them and give them back – we would be delighted to see them. If you are able to give us dates and a short paragraph to go with it, that would be even better. If you
School wins Ofsted praise
know anyone in the local area that may have photographs, please speak to them to see if they will share their photographs and memories – together we can keep East Malling green.”
Please contact Dawn and Jenny at
EastMallingRAG@gmail.com or ring 07800 945116 if you are able to help.
• Pupil safety including bullying being extremely rare • Provision for pupils in the Tydeman Centre • Breadth and quality of pupils’ personal development
• Provision for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
• Senior leadership; governance; middle leadership in The Tydeman Centre, English, humanities, art and technology
The report shows an improvement since the previous inspection three years ago when the school was judged good but with no outstanding features cited.
HARD work has paid off for staff and pupils at The Malling School which has had a number of features judged as outstanding in its latest Ofsted report.
Inspectors who visited the school in Beech Road, East Malling, in May, graded the school as “good” while noting outstanding achievement in several areas.
The areas they cited as outstanding were: • Conduct of pupils and behaviour in school
School principal Carl Roberts said: “I am incredibly pleased that the hard work of staff and pupils over the past three years has been recognised with this fantastic report. The inspection team were clear with me that The Malling School is well on its way to being judged as outstanding in every area and we look forward to achieving that top grade very quickly.”
The Malling School is a smaller than average mixed 11-18 secondary school. The Tydeman Centre is part of the school and is a specialist resourced provision for pupils with speech, language and communication difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders.
A Malling Action Partnership publication
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