MP impressed by pupils’ ambition
Maidstone and the Weald MP Helen Grant was met with plenty of questions when she met a group of Year 5 pupils at Shernold School.
How do you become an MP? Have you met the Queen? What do you do? These were among the questions the youngsters at the school in Maidstone’s Queens Avenue wanted answered. The MP then turned the tables on the 10- and 11-year-olds and asked what they wanted to do when they got older. Play football for Spurs, become a lawyer, a doctor, an actress, a dancer and an Olympic cross-country runner were among the responses.
Mrs Grant said: “These wonderful young people were so well prepared and so ambitious too. My advice to them was to believe in yourself and don’t let other people put you off. Set your goals, work hard and you will achieve. They then told me what their school motto was: ‘Believe and you will achieve’. Perfect, I thought.”
Head teacher Sandra Dinsmore said: “To meet a Member of Parliament was an amazing opportunity for our children. They were really inspired.”