Brum schools get a pounds 38.9m windfall; EDUCATION: Parents can look forward to 1,000 new places in the city.Byline: Tony Collins ALMOST 1,000 new places are to be provided in Birmingham following pounds 38.9 million of new money for primary schools in the city. About 400 of the primary school places will be in Hodge Hill Hodge Hill is an area seven km east of Birmingham city centre, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller constituency ward and the wards of Bordesley Green, Shard End and Washwood Heath. and Washwood Heath Washwood Heath is a ward in Birmingham, within the formal district of Hodge Hill, roughly two miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, England. Washwood Heath covers the areas of Birmingham that lie between Nechells, Bordesley Green, Stechford and Hodge Hill. wards, and a new primary school has been confirmed for Bordesley Green Bordesley Green is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England about two miles south-east from the city centre. It is also a ward in the formal district of Hodge Hill. Neighbouring areas include, Alum Rock, Saltley, Small Heath and Yardley. , where birthrates have been particularly rising. Hodge Hill MP and now Chief Secretary to the Treasury The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the second most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The office holder is usually given a junior position in the British Cabinet. , Liam Byrne, lobbied Children's Secretary Ed Balls when he successfully invited him to attend Bordesley Green Primary School last March. Mr Byrne has promised to fight for another new primary school, in Alum Rock Alum Rock may refer to:
Funding for the new school places has come from the Government's Primary Challenge Programme. The Birmingham MP said: "We started campaigning for more primary school places in 2005. I personally invited the Schools Secretary Ed Balls to Hodge Hill to see for himself how we needed the new school places. "And, following Ed's visit here in March, nearly pounds 40 million of investment has come on stream." Added Mr Byrne: "I'm absolutely delighted that we have won a new primary school in Bordesley Green, and 400 new primary school places in Hodge Hill and Washwood Heath. "Just 7.5 per cent of young people in Hodge Hill get a degree, compared to 35 per cent nationally, and I want our kids to do better. "Giving them the first class primary school education they deserve is a vital first step to changing that figure for the better. "This is just the start. Now I'm fighting alongside local residents for a second new school in Alum Rock." Mr Byrne said he was planning to meet the landowners later this month to help get a deal moving. The new primary school in Bordesley Green is planned to become part of an all-through school with Waverley School. It is due to open in 2011/12 and provide 90 places a year. Primary schools receiving extra places are Thornton, Greet and Regents Park, with an additional 210 each, George Dixon with 105, and Hodge Hill, 91. |
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