Remembering those who died

I will point out that 19 per cent of pupils got good results and I believe that about 80 per cent of pupils are new immigrants to Britain.

In this case we have to look at what works to make good results obtainable to all, either academically or turning out as good rounded individuals.

Previously, I have been told by a senior council officer that extra funding was made available to keep then poorly performing Asian children at school for an extra year.

We now have children from that background out performing all other groups and they are a great asset to the city.

We should now make that additional funding available to the poorly performing children from ethnic British and European backgrounds and I am sure we will get the same fantastic results.

Fund an extra year at school for those who want it so that they can reach their full potential, academically, artistically or personally.

Children are the best investment for the future.

I find the Voyager children generally to be a credit to their school and themselves.

Of course, if council officers and cabinet had listened to residents we would still also have Bretton Woods School and its excellent team to help cope with the rush of new immigrants we expected and got.

Many staff from Walton School and Bretton Woods joined Voyager and they have stayed there. We should be appreciative of them and their skills.

There are other excellent teachers too, and local support workers many of whom are real stars. There is a national shortage of qualified teachers and the government needs to train more.

If they had, and kept them, Voyager would not have such a problem. It simply cannot get enough teachers.

In my opinion, teachers

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Peterborough Telegraph, 57 Priestgate, Peterborough PE1 1JW should be brought in from the EU areas that these children come from and the government needs to change the rules so that they can teach here, subject to English language and communication tests.

These would help communication to the children very many of whom simply cannot speak English. It would also alleviate the massive teacher shortage.

You can bring in as many managerial experts as you like, but you will not improve results unless you face the problems head on.

So come on Government, more money and a full complement of teachers with the right skills.

When Peterborough regains its previous excellent academic reputation many more teachers will want to teach here.

Businesses will want to come here and the city will prosper more. John Knowles Independent Councillor for Paston . Well here we are once again at Remembrance Sunday, and nothing much has changed, we are still at war, and killing each other and perhaps we always will. It would be so wonderful if in the future there are no wars or fighting anywhere in the world, it would be a lovely dream.

Heavens Door (lest we forget)

The poppies are falling on the floor

And a young man comes to heavens door,

An old soldier standing at the gate

Says come in son its getting late.

I thought that when .... we all died so young

That all the killings had been done,

I’d hoped the days had come at last

When all the bombing would be passed.

And with the clean wars of today

The trenches of Somme This last weekend saw yet seem far away, another resident leave beNow, a button pressed on a cause they couldn’t cope with foreign shore the damp in their Gladstone And a soldier stands at Street rental property. heavens door. Like many areas in the town, Even roads as small as this It seems we don’t learn Gladstone Street has quite a benefit from a stable populavery fast number of properties that are tion, and to see over the years From things that happened rented out. such a procession of good peoin the past,

Not all, but quite a number ple forced out of their rental So come in son, look down of these properties are beset properties because landlords and see by severe damp problems, of can’t be bothered to solve the The petals fall for you and which landlordsme.areinformeddamp,andbecausestatutory by departing tenants who authorities are impotent to Poppy petals falling red leave because of the ill health protect tenants, doesn’t help remembering the dead. they have through living in promote social cohesion. Can Maureen Waldron damp properties. I urge all landlords wherever Market Deeping

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