Demonstrate

Wednesday 23rd April !


      

SAVE FRANK BARNES


•Deaf children deserve BSL teaching

•Don’t close; co-locate

•Save expert staff


?Assemble 5pm Crowndale Centre, Eversholt Street

?March to Camden Town Hall, Judd Street


Organised by Frank Barnes’ Parents Action Group, Camden NUT & Camden UNISON




News Update

[Jan 16]  FAQ added. Polly has written a Frequently Asked Questions page, which will hopefully answer some of your questions.  Read it here. If you have any extra questions, please contact us on the Contacts page.


[Jan 10th] New Newsletter released. This is our second newsletter and updates you on the situation for January 2008. Read it here.


[Dec 18th] Newsletter Update. A small December update on what’s been happening. Read it here.


[Nov 28] Frank Barnes on the BBC again! 

SeeHear will show a program about Frank Barnes and our campaign on Wednesday  28th November on BBC 2, at 1pm.  Set your video recorders please!  (Program will be repeated on morning of 5th Dec at 1.20am on BBC1)


[Nov 27] Guardian article!

The Guardian newspaper has printed an article about Frank Barnes.   It was written by Liz Ford, Deputy editor of the Education section, and is very supportive of us.


[Nov 26]  Transcript of Nov 20th Camden Council Special Executive Committee Meeting available.  This council meeting was to discuss the issues around Frank Barnes, and happened after the demo on the same day.  Diana Delbridge has typed up a transcript (30 pages!).  Includes speeches from our Chair of Governors Stephen Philips and Tomato Lichy, and supporting statements from NUT and UNISON.  It’s in the Documents section.



[Nov 21] BBC News Online article.  With a lovely photo of one of our pupils!





[Nov 20] Another demo!  With Sadie Frost! 

We had a lovely demo, with over 200 deaf and hearing parents, kids, and supporters marching from Crowndale Centre (Camden’s education centre) to Camden Town Hall.  Famous actor Sadie Frost came too, and was interviewed by Camden New Journal (article coming here soon).


[Nov 16] Press Release launched!

Today, we’ve put out a press release that went out to all the newspapers and TV channels.  Hopefully it will get us some media interest.  You can read it on our Documents page.


[Nov 10] Frank Barnes Parent Action Group Launched

We’ve launched a Parents Action Group to support Frank Barnes, with a newsletter that will summarise what’s happening.  Here’s our first issue!

 

Camden Council have sold the land that Frank Barnes is on to make way for a secondary school for hearing children.


The future of the only sign-bilingual school in London has not been secured.

This causes us great concern. We are very worried about the timescale of the proposals because we need to be out of the current location by July 2009.


18 months is not a long time when no guarantees have been given by Camden for the future education of our deaf children.


What’s all this about?

Thumbs Up Frank Barnes!