Gatley Primary’s always been a good school, but under the leadership of Michelle Murray, Vanessa MacManus and the rest of the Senior Management Team, it’s been going from strength to strength over the last couple of years.

For the governors, this is sub-committee week (and somehow I seem to be very bad at getting the right dates and times in my diar).  Between the governors we’ve been reviewing the school’s achievements and plans, and I can only say that it’s nice when the main role of the governors is to congratulate the staff and children on their achievements.

We’re lucky to have a bunch of really good schools in our area.  Not only Gatley Primary but also Lum Head, Cheadle Primary and Kingsway.  I’m privileged to know many of the children and, in the vast majority of cases, the modern negative stereotypes we see all too often in the media couldn’t be further from the truth.