Redhill School exceeds expectations

Margot James, Conservative Party candidate for Stourbridge, has been made a governor of Redhill School.

Margot’s visited Redhill last week on the day school league table results were published. Redhill was placed at number six across the Dudley borough with 65% of children obtaining GCSE A-C grade including English and Maths.

Margot met headmaster Brian Heavisides, other teaching staff and made a tour of the school’s extensive facilities. Margot said “exam results are crucial and 65% of children getting A-C grades is well above the average, nationally and locally, but an all round education is also important and I was very impressed to see the large number of girls playing badminton and football on a Thursday morning, I was then shown a large mixed class of students learning how to make a perfect Swiss Roll in food technology”.

“There is so much comment about childhood obesity, schools not doing enough sport, and offering little in the way of life skills such as nutrition and cooking, that it is very encouraging to see Redhill making both areas an important part of the curriculum as well as achieving good academic results” she continued.