Inspectors rate Penryn school top of the class

PENRYN community school has been highly praised by a team of Government inspectors, and for headmaster Ian Jones it has come at a time when he is planning to take over as head of Camborne School.

The inspectors in their report released today, praise the school as a harmonious community and commend pupils for both their attitudes towards learning and their motivation, although during the past 12 months three pupils have been expelled.

The report also lists what the school should do next.

That includes planning and implementing a whole school language policy with a view to raising literacy standards across the curriculum, investigating and developing strategies aimed at improving the attainment performance of boys at GCSE and ensuring teaching is in accordance with the national curriculum requirements.

Chairman of the governors Paul Barnicoat said: "The report is very positive about the school and confirms the view of the governing body regarding its achievements."

Gipsy seminar condemned by irate council

A PARISH council who have had an illegal travellers site on their doorstep for three years have nothing but condemnation for the county council's recently held gipsy seminar.

St Gluvias Parish Council sent two members to the conference and came away disgusted.

Mrs Marilyn Ferris and Mrs Jean Turner both agreed that they were no further forward in getting the site vacated.

It was a county council problem and "the buck stopped there" they said.

They hoped Kerrier, as the planning authority, would now take enforcement action on the illegal site and force eviction of the travellers.

Work begins again on sports pitch

WORK on Falmouth's first all-weather sports pitch is expected to begin again this week after Carrick planners gave the go-ahead to amended plans.

The diggers were called off the site at Ashfield late last month after it was discovered the /Falmouth and Penryn Sports association had wrongly laid out the pitch.

The pitch was positioned differently to that in the approved plans because the association discovered the pitch would not fit into the agreed area without retaining walls being needed.