[Ceejache]

Sorry Willow - I know its the school who lose money and not the governors! Apologies if it read otherwise. I know its voluntary and, again, a thankless task - yet often from an ex-teachers point of view it is not as much a lack of resources that hold pupils back, I find it to be the amount of disruptive influences.

In my experience as a secondary music teacher I had limited resources, one keyboard between two or three pupils, but with a class of fairly well-behaved pupils great results could be produced. I firmly believe that harder sanctions and a policy of exclusion for constant misdeamours would result in a greater yield of encouraging performances across the enite curriculum and therefore a better pass rate of five GCSE's between A* - C. To be brutally honest many of the 'wilder' pupils are responsible for the otherwise fine resources becoming dilapted and defunct.

Also, on a slightly different note, OFSTED inspections provoke nothing but fear amongst staff trying to do their best in very trying circumstances. I know governors can do nothing about this....but they are hell.