A New Series Celebrating and Exploring Our Local Schools |
CleveleysNow.com will share school achievements, community stories and the issues that matter to families in Thornton and Cleveleys |
Schools are a vital part of our community. They help shape young lives, support families and bring people together, making them an important part of what makes Thornton and Cleveleys such a special place to live.
That is why CleveleysNow.com is launching a new series of articles dedicated to the schools serving our local area.
Our local schools series will look beyond the school gates to explore the people, achievements, opportunities and challenges that matter to pupils, parents, teachers and the wider community.
We want to celebrate pupils’ achievements, discover inspiring projects, highlight sport, creativity and fundraising, and share the positive work schools do with local organisations. We will also look at practical questions that matter to families, including school facilities, admissions information, road safety around school gates and the support available to children with different needs.
Where useful, we will examine published inspection findings and official education data, explaining what the information tells us in clear, straightforward language. Our aim is not to create a league table or make unfair comparisons, but to help readers understand the picture and hear a range of informed perspectives.
Fairness and accuracy will be central to the series. We will check information carefully, distinguish confirmed facts from opinions, and give schools a reasonable opportunity to respond when an article raises specific questions about them.
We want you to be part of it. If you work at a school, are a parent or carer, or know about a project or achievement that deserves recognition, we would like to hear from you. Suggestions for topics are welcome too.
We cannot promise to cover every suggestion, but your ideas will help us understand what matters most to local families. Please share relevant information through CleveleysNow.com’s usual contact channels, and include details that can help us verify the story.
This is the beginning of a conversation about education in our area. By listening, asking sensible questions and celebrating what goes well, we hope to build a useful and balanced picture of the schools that help shape our community.
Watch CleveleysNow.com for the first instalments in our local schools series. |
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Good idea but there are a lot of schools in Thornton and Cleveleys. Will be interesting to see which ones they start with.
Bob HargreavesYeah good point. There are more than you realise when you count the primaries, secondaries and the special schools too. Hopefully they work through them all and don't just stick to the bigger names.
You make a fair point, there are plenty of schools to cover, and we want to do justice to each one rather than rush through them. Watch this space for the first instalments, and do get in touch if you have a particular school or story you think deserves an early look.
Hope they actually talk to parents and not just the headteachers. The school gate view and the official version can be very different things.
TraceyM_FY5This exactly. Headteachers are great at putting a positive spin on things. Would love to see them actually sit down with parents at the school gate and ask what people genuinely think.
That distinction is really important to us, and it is exactly why we specifically mention parents, carers and the wider community as voices we want to hear, not just those behind the official desk. The school gate perspective is a genuine and valuable part of the picture.
Really glad someone is finally covering the schools properly. My kids go to a school on the Cleveleys side and you never hear anything positive about it in the local press, only when something goes wrong.
This is precisely the kind of imbalance we hope to address, the series is designed to celebrate achievements and positive work, not just report problems. We would love to hear about your children's school, so please do reach out through our usual contact channels.
Dave PickeringSame with ours. You only ever see the school's name in the news when there's a problem. There's loads of good stuff that goes on that nobody outside the school ever gets to hear about.