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W h a t i s v a l u e o f t h e s e s c h o o l l e a g u e t a b l e s ?


season with, perhaps, a league table for the first time. The Secretary of State expresses surprise and


ONCE again we are in the seven-plus testing


concern that two children out of 10 have not mas­ tered the essentials of literacy and numeracy. This is a normal situation. At least, I found it so between


1947 and 1984 in Leeds, Grimsby, Leigh and Clitheroe. When three out of 10 taking the tests are still


six, when some have attended school for two-and-a- half years and others for 18 months, what else should we expect? Remember, the younger the child, the more erratic its performance and the less reliable the test results, especially when transferred on to a national grid.


always tested and assessed and that there is no objection to a National Curriculum, now being revised and slimmed to improve its educational value. The fault lies in the forlorn attempt to regiment,


1 indicated a few years ago that teachers have


nationalise and draw conclusions on school perfor­ mance from the results of “simple tests” for three- quarters of a million children in 20,000 primary schools. How can the performances of 20,000 schools be meaningfully measured as a percentage? What is the value of these league tables? At local


has remained in a school for some time will be able to tell parents.


ents as far as an infant teacher is concerned lies in the area of awareness; e.g. that Sally has lost six weeks’ schooling because of a stay in hospital; that David is losing interest and confidence because of his reaction to a change in circumstances which has unsettled family life.


Tne professionalism, motivation and duty to par­ .


can be offered may be vital in maintaining the momentum of educational progress — much more important than time spent on heavily detailed


In both cases the extra time and attention that . paperwork.


national percentage for their school, moving like a yo-yo from 81 to 85 to 76 and back to 82. I doubt if parents think this is a top priority. I am optimistic about the future. I anticipate that,


Teachers are not motivated by a meaningless , .


by the year 2001, league tables for seven-year-olds will have been discarded. I have great faith in the individuality and unpredictability of 750,000 seven- year-olds — a fresh army each year — to run rings round the dogma and solutions provided by any politi­


cal party.


level in the Ribble Valley — or any other locality — where is the practical help for parents in trying to relate a precise percentage in a school with 25 pupils and one with 10 or 20 times that number? A handful of seven-year-old children in a small


, A seven-year-old knows what counts. It is his rela­


school may all be rated average in 1993 (Level 2). In 1994, same teacher same effort, the next group may all be above average (Level 3). In 1995, all below (Level 1) schools have “good” years and “bad” years, as well as mostly average ones, as any teacher who


tionship with parents, teachers and peers. From time to time he gives them full marks, sometimes none at all! Most parents and teachers, I imagine, get an average plus mark for trying hard from se­ ven-year-olds, say 65% to 85%, though most chijdreri would find it hard and unnecessary to quantify it precisely.


HOB JONES, Park Avenue, Clitheroe.


To r ie s mad e n o n sen se o f o u r c o u n t ry ’s


h is to r ic geo g rap h y


; the leader of the council '• was wanting in passion. To reaffirm: Our cam-


■ paign p re s se s for the ' Y orkshire /L anc a shirc


. tered by a rural authority, - preferably in Yorkshire. '


boundary to be re-estab­ lished and to be adminis-


I t was Conservatives


I THANK Coun. Fleming and accept kindly his apol­ ogy over the administra­ tion error regarding the Policy and Resources C om m i t te e m e e t in g referred to in recent edi­ tions of your paper and note he understands the emotive thinking behind the Re-entry into York­ shire Campaign. It would be sad indeed if


Heath and Walker who made a n o n s e n s e of England’s historic geo­ graphy in 1974 and, in a recent interview on Radio Lancashire, I mentioned that it was the Secretary of State (Conservative), in the spring of 1991, who suggested he would be willing to countenance boundary changes should


there be the perception that this would be econom­ ically feasible.


P a rty Conference last October, Mr John Red­ wood said that if the peo­ ple wanted it enough there was no reason why it could not happen (a loud cheer


At the Conservative S e n s i b l e p o l i c i e s


•WELL said, David letters). And while I’m on the


Brass! ( la s t week’s


subject, Clitheroe ex- County Councillor Ron Pickup’s comments last week read like so much sour granes It is, ho\


tell him something? In Howel Jones, Clith­


to see someone lose as much as Mr Pickup — having previously been a Clitheroe town councillor and Ribble Valley district councillor until two years ago, when he was ousted from both positions by the Liberal Democrats. Now he has lost the


........ .iowever, a shame


eroe has a well-known, highly-respected and hard­ working county councillor, who has been and is, again, MayiSr of Clitheroe and th e le a d e r ', of a greatly-increased Liberal Democrat group on the District Council, a result of sensible policies and


county seat, again to the Liberal Democrats, by one of the largest swings, in Lancashire. That, at a time when the County Labour Party elsewhere was gaining votes and seats, is some achieve­ ment! Perhaps the voters of Clitheroe are trying to


WE really must not let the D ep a r tm en t of Social


Security and the Govern­ ment get away with then- latest ploy to save money by persuading pensioners to have their pension paid directly into their bank accounts, by electronic transfer, instead of being handed over at their local


post office counter. This would inevitably


lead to the closure of vil­ lage sub-post offices. It is up to US to put a


office.


Democrats’ achievements at County Hall are depen­ dant, to a great extent, upon how much the major­ ity-ruling Labour Group will allow. That is democ­ racy in a first-past-the- post situation.


commitment. Obviously, the Liberal


MRS. WHITTLE, Billington Gardens, Blackburn.


Keep post offices open


dington, for instance, with an almshouse for the el­ derly, it is essential that we retain our post office and village shop. With increasing infirmity and higher and higher costs in public transport, it would be a disaster if it had to close.


stop to this, by refusing to agree to this measure anil by insisting on being paid in cash, at a local post


In a village like Wad-


say NO and tell your Ml’ that, if our sub-post offices in the villages are closed, the Conservatives will pay for it at the next election.


So please, pensioners, , Waddington.


MRS E. DREW, I’arsons Croft, Slaidhurn Road,


went up) and we had just had Sir John Banham’s pronouncement on the fate of Cleveland that leads us to conclude that Humber­ side must surely be next. I added that “I perso­


nally cannot believe the Commission will only play with the Yorkshire bound­ ary _ to suit Yorkshire people it must be a com­ plete re-establishment.” The outcome of the pro-


Learning nothing from


the past


DAVID BRASS clearly shows his failure to under­ stand local politics, when he concentrates his whole a rticle on the Liberal Democrats and highlights


all the things they cannot deliver and accentuates all


those things they accuse me and the Tories of as propaganda, yet he learns


on the practicalities of pro­ viding services at point of delivery, I can only say to him that those people who a re fam il ia r w ith my organising abilities will realise that every “which way” and “how” is being c o n s id e r e d an d p u t


gram mm e was q u i te clearly th a t Lancashire people, too, wanted their boundaries back: Greater Manchester never has been accepted and mur- murings were coming across the sands from Morecambe.With regard to Coun. Fleming’s last paragraph


forward. If his worst scenario is


that we will still be paying our council tax etc. in Clitheroe, then I do not think that is going to be too much of a strain, espe­ cially when, in all proba­ bility, it will be consider­


ably less! Look on the bright side,


Bill — Clitheroe’s tourism figures will rise, as I am happy to say to the Clith­ eroe and District Chamber of Trade: “We shall still be shopping in Clitheroe.”


JOAN I’ARKINSON, Campaign for Re-entry into Yorkshire, Waddington.


THANKS


ONCE again, may I thank the people of Clitheroe and of tinne Ribble Valley for


Children collection. Over two days, in the town and a t


recent Save the collected. T e s c o , £830 was


ter firm for allowing us to collect on their premises. This is much appreciated. Thanks again to all those who collected and who contributed.


MRS M. J. McGLYNN, Chairman, Clitheroe SCF, Northmede, Ribblcsdnle Avenue,


Clithcroe. May I also thank the lat­


their great generosity dur­ ing our


nothing from the past, hence a Liberal crusade. Where has Mr Brass


been during the last four years? My whole period of office has been sp en t improving the lot of the


More importantly, direct your customers to look around. Clithcronians will recognise that this town is


Ribble Valley. Look around, David.


better as a result of my efforts and will be struck


with the terrible mistake they may have made on May 6th, 1993.


mammon. When County Coun. Jones proves all that is needed is the real vision of the gods, with the town delivered into the hands of the known Christian, presumably we will now go further down th e ro ad to d e c l in e , because that’s the reality. I would remind the


I supplied a goodly lot of I .


A honeymoon in Turkey followed the wedding of Mr Stuart Herritty and Miss Helen Butterworth at St Mary’s RC Church,


HERRITTY — BUTTERWORTH Best man was the bride


eral manager with a Maid­ enhead firm, is the youn­ ger son of Mr and Mrs M. Herritty, of Cardiff. ' The bride, a biochemist,


,angho. The bridegroom, a gen­


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g ro om ’s b ro th e r , M. Robert Herritty, and the ushers were Mr Andrew Rutherford and Mr Nick Gay. The ceremony, which


was performed by I Dwyer, was followed by reception at The Fox fields, Billington. The couple are to live in


is the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs C. Butter­ worth, of Langho. Given away by her


Maidenhead. Photograph: I’ye’s, o


Clitheroe.


father, the bride wore an ivory beaded silk dupion gown, with a sweetheart neckline, elbow-length puffed sleeves, a full skirt and a cathedral train. Her veil of Victorian lace was held in place by a head­ dress of ivory silk roses and she carried a shower bouquet of champagne and Nicola roses, gypsophila and bear grass. In attendance was Mrs


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Catherine Dellow, the bride’s sister, who wore a soft moss green ballerina- le n g th d r e s s , with a sweetheart neckline^ and ivory detail. She carried a posy of flowers similar to the bride’s and wore a comb of fresh flowers in her hair.


Display to jog the memory


AN ex h ib i tio n of old I photographs featuring Clitheroe and various Lan­ cashire and Yorkshire vil­ lages is being_ held in the 1 reference section of Clith­


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29th. The photographs are


part of the library’s large local history collection. People are invited to go and have their memory jogged or ju s t have a browse and sue how things have changed. In the collection is a


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county councillor and the people of Biblical teach­ ings to belie the false prophecy he preached to lots of committed Chris­ tians found on the door­ step during the campaign. ‘‘It is false wisdom that


photograph of the day Firths Bakery on Chat- burn Road ran an adver­ tising feature by aircraft and one taken in 1913 at the school in Dalehead, which was flooded over to I make Stocks reservoir at |


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pits one leader against another. All are yours” (Corinthians 1:3 18-23). “ For the kingdom of


mounted at short notice, as a Rishlon artist can­ celled an exhibition of his paintings due to pressure |


of work.


God is not in word, but in power” (Corinthians 4:20). “Take heed, beware the leaven of the Pharisees”


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RON PICKUP, Lingfield Drive, Clitheroe.


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