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| Trustees of Maiden Erlegh with Rob Wilson MP |
This new secondary school, wherever in East Reading it is sited, will provide the opportunity for far more students to benefit from a Maiden Erlegh education. The existing school has been oversubscribed for years, with little chance of Reading families benefiting from the opportunity of a place.
It was the local Member of Parliament, Rob Wilson's, idea to use Michael Gove's Free School programme to give an even better choice of secondary schools to parents living over in the east of Reading, ie Cemetery Junction/Wokingham Road area. Not content with having instigated the UTC Reading, [see my previous posts for more about the UTC] opened September 2013 and doing extremely well, Rob approached Maiden Erlegh School's Headteacher Dr Peter Thomas last year with the idea of setting up a second Maiden Erlegh School to complement existing schools serving the community.
Maiden Erlegh 2 will have the same ethos and vision as the Silverdale Road school, and be lead by Dr Thomas and the rest of his leadership team. It will be for 11-16 year olds and is due to open September 2015. It will cater for 180 students per year group, building up from the bottom each year to eventually when full have 900 students.
Maiden Erlegh converted to Academy status April 2011 and was one of the first "Outstanding" Ofsted-rated schools to do so.
To read more about this fantastic news, see Rob's website
