The East Midlands meat pie industry has helped many a student through their degree with part-time work at Pork Farms. Now 'Nottingham businessman' Andrew Samworth will link up with Nottingham University to run William Sharp school in Bilbourough. The business? None other than Samworth Brothers, prior owners of Pork Farms (now sold to Northern Foods) and continuing owner/suppliers of fine cooked meat pie brands such as Ginsters.
What a fine way to start the Chinese 'year of the Pig'!
The plan for a University/Samworth linkup was announced in July 2006 but now a tasty new video has just been produced to sell the idea to university staff and parents alike.
The University of Nottingham, ever keen to show off it's community sucking credentials, cannot contain itself with the possibility of resurrecting a 'failing' school. Plus co-bidder David Samworth already has his finger in one City Academy pie in alliance with the Diocese of Leicester and clearly has eyes on a bigger slice.
University big-wigs like Di Birch, and experts from the School of Education and the Medical School no less, talk of a new environment where learning, health are at last available to a deprived area of Notttingham.
We eagerly await the headlines:
"Nottingham University boffins show improved brainpower thanks to food that children like to eat!"
Will this be omega-3 enhanced Ginsters served at morning break? No more worries about compliance in this clinical trial - it will be compulsory, and good for you! And the sample size will surely be big enough to convince the most hardened of university statistics experts.
With their successes in supplying a local school with delicious veggie food, it's surely time for Veggies to put in a counter bid!
Watch the Academies video:
http://www.cgvision.co.uk/ustream/william_sharp_video.html
Read the press release:
http://www.englandseastmidlands.com/News.aspx?ID=166
Eat the pie:
http://www.samworthbrothers.co.uk/
The plan for a University/Samworth linkup was announced in July 2006 but now a tasty new video has just been produced to sell the idea to university staff and parents alike.
The University of Nottingham, ever keen to show off it's community sucking credentials, cannot contain itself with the possibility of resurrecting a 'failing' school. Plus co-bidder David Samworth already has his finger in one City Academy pie in alliance with the Diocese of Leicester and clearly has eyes on a bigger slice.
University big-wigs like Di Birch, and experts from the School of Education and the Medical School no less, talk of a new environment where learning, health are at last available to a deprived area of Notttingham.
We eagerly await the headlines:
"Nottingham University boffins show improved brainpower thanks to food that children like to eat!"
Will this be omega-3 enhanced Ginsters served at morning break? No more worries about compliance in this clinical trial - it will be compulsory, and good for you! And the sample size will surely be big enough to convince the most hardened of university statistics experts.
With their successes in supplying a local school with delicious veggie food, it's surely time for Veggies to put in a counter bid!
Watch the Academies video:
http://www.cgvision.co.uk/ustream/william_sharp_video.html Read the press release:
http://www.englandseastmidlands.com/News.aspx?ID=166 Eat the pie:
http://www.samworthbrothers.co.uk/
It's David Samworth, not Andrew
26.02.2007 01:11
Addition/correction
Meat the parents - courtesy of a top Tory donor...
26.02.2007 01:36
Separated at birth: Hilary Briss, Butcher, League of Gentlemen TV Show
David Samworth, Pieman and member of Midlands Tory donor club
"The Midlands Industrial Council (MIC), which for years has maintained secrecy over its membership, includes tycoons such as Tony Gallagher, a property developer who has also donated money to Labour, Roy Richardson, another property developer, and Sir Anthony Bamford of the JCB digger empire and one of Britain’s richest men.
[...]
The MIC president is Bamford, knighted by Margaret Thatcher in 1990. He recently accompanied Cameron on a trip to India where the Tory leader opened a JCB factory.
Businessmen who join the council remain “members for life”, according to the MIC’s secretary. Non-active members include Sir David Lees, an adviser to Cameron and chairman of Tate & Lyle; Allen Lloyd, the Isle of Man-based founder of Lloyds chemists; and David Samworth, owner of Samworth Brothers, which makes Ginsters pasties and ready meals."
Wonder if they'll be serving up any 'special stuff' at PTA meetings?
Local meats for local people...
Hilary Briss
Pie in the sky when you die
26.02.2007 10:04
This was in the diocesan newsletter:
"Church in a School:
On the Saffron Lane estate in Leicester a new school is being developed in
partnership with Mr David Samworth of Samworth Brothers. The
Samworth Enterprise Academy – a Church of England school - will include a
Chaplaincy Centre which will both serve the school and the local
congregation. St Christopher’s, whose existing church building has reached
the end of its life, will have the opportunity for a renewed community of faith
to arise out of the school's networks and community relationships"
See also:
The wobblies are watching...
IWW Edcom
who ate all the pies?
27.02.2007 10:39
david samworth
Another city academy bid for combined River Leen and Henry Mellish schools
27.02.2007 13:34
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7th June 2006
Enterprise academy to be founded through amalgamation of two schools
Edge, the educational foundation, and Nottingham City Council announced today that a formal Expression of Interest to sponsor a new city academy in Bulwell, Nottingham, has been submitted by Edge.
The new city academy
A type of school. will be formed from the amalgamation of the River Leen and Henry Mellish schools [...]. Both Henry Mellish and River Leen schools are now developing work focused on ‘enterprise’ and this will continue as an academy specialism, with business a core focus. It is intended that the academy will develop students that leave as self-starters, who are highly motivated and already equipped with many of the skills they will need for successful working lives.
Wobbly
The other Nottingham one is called Bulwell Academy
27.02.2007 14:07
Appleyards have previously been involved with lucrative Private Finance Initiative hospital bids. Hospital PFI was mentioned on a Channel 4 'Dispatches' TV program about 'NHS - where did the money go?' last night. It told us that the total money borrowed by private organisations to build PFI hospitals has been around 8 billion pounds. The public purse will then pay back an estimated 53 billion pounds in rent etc. over the 30 year PFI contract period! This will earn the private sector a pretty penny, and at the same time the Treasury will aim to convince us that is has kept public borrowing down in the short term (since government has avoided borrowing the 8 billion directly). Oh the wonders of PFI!
Anti-academy
Anti-Academies Alliance
28.02.2007 19:13
Disillusioned kid
Homepage:
http://disillusionedkid.blogspot.com
Nottingham Sparrow article on academies
03.03.2007 17:14
(also available in PDF on Nottingham AF website below).
Do let the Sparrow know if anyone gets any more local info on this subject ...
Nottingham AF
Homepage:
http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham/