Essex secondary consider's being sponsored by its exec head's school

From the Basildon Recorder: Woodlands School, Basildon, is now considering being sponsored by Appleton School. Karen Kerridge who is executive headteacher at Woodlands is also the head at Appleton  - Appleton is a Business and Enterprise Colleges, its main sponsor is the Arcadia Group.

Brentwood County High School -  is consulting on converting: On its website the school said: 'We are seeking to convert to be a Co-operative Academy... less than ten of Essex's seventy-five secondary schools are still under the control of the Local Authority, that the LA no longer has the capacity to support our school as it has done in the past.'

Karen Kerridge had been brought in as temporary head at Brentwood County High in 2012. The head teacher is now TV star teacher Stephen Drew of Educating Essex (2011) and Mr Drew's School for Boys  (2014).