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Dear Editor,

Re:- Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep
I grew up on a farm. It was the best education a child could wish for.

Are you looking for a primary school place for Sept 2010?
Selsted Church of England Primary School is holding an Open Afternoon on November 5th between 1 and 3pm...

Youngsters will be able to debate in the Council Chamber, quiz Councillors, and bid for special projects at their schools during a day of activities at Dover District Council. 

Under proposals put forward by Kent County Council, grammar school places in east Kent would be reduced whilst there would be more places in the west of Kent.

A Folkestone teacher has been suspended after pupils reportedly found revealing images of him on a gay adult website.
 

The Folkestone Academy has been awarded £5,000 from The School Food Trust in its School of the Month competition for recognition of its promotion of healthy eating.

Dear Editor,

Re:- Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep
Oh my god...I cannot believe what you people are saying.

Dear Editor,

Re:- Lazarus, you're off topic
I am not, as stated by Chris Beal, off topic. In fact, in the act of misinterpretation of my comments Chris has demonstrated exactly the point I was trying to make.
 

Dear Editor,

Re:- Hopefully a voice of reason in the sheep saga
It is interesting to see the parochial mindedness and bold assumptions being made by some contributors. Incomers, vegetarians, small minded, nimbys and like comments hardly inform the debate when made in such a dismissive and disparaging way.
 

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Typical British Scapegoating - Ms Charman left it to a vote of the parents - Why do people ignore this?

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Can we step back from the media hype over this story and consider the wider issues?
 

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Name withheld could for all we know be the very same Headteacher whose pet farm has sparked the controversy.
 

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

How dare Andrea Charman take the course that she did knowing there were people against this decision.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Just in case Lazarus is not the gentleman who featured in the Biblical story I would remind him the forum is currently about the death of a pet sheep who is unlikely to be resurrected whole and the potential effect on impressionable minds!
 

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Whether or not slaughter and eating meat is right or wrong that isn't really the issue here.
 

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Ms Charman should be sacked and examined by a psychiatrist.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

The decision to slaughter a sheep kept as a pet defies all normal logic.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I find the magnitude of the fuss made over the slaughter of Marcus somewhat remarkable.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Seriously, please everyone come back down to Earth here with the rest of us meat eaters.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I do hope the head loses her job over this, I cannot understand how KCC did not step in, or is this why she cowardly had the lamb killed before it was due to be , just so no one could stop her.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

The head teacher of Shepway Primary school should think very carefully about the message being sent to the children in her care.

Despite appeals from parents and teachers,  the sheep kept by pupils at Lydd Primary school was slaughtered over the weekend.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Yes, I find this business with the sheep, disturbing and inappropriate for a primary school 'projest' but I am a vegan and I find the whole business of eating meat wrong.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

My children already knew where meat came from long before the head at Lydd bought animals to rear for slaughter.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

An absolute disgrace, Marcus should be saved.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I feel this gives totally the wrong idea about pet ownership to children.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Let’s just take a reality check here! You all sit there feeding chicken nuggets and standard shop bought meats for your kids to eat.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

These children are at school not in a farm - the sheep is their pet.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I take it that those who are opposed to the slaughter of this animal choose not to eat in Mcdonalds and are in fact vegetarian?

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I am saddened by the school's decision to have one of their pets slaughtered but it reflects the ambivalent attitude that this nation of so called animal lovers has towards the creatures that it purports to protect.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Is head a teacher or a farmer?

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I did speak to the headmistress, she stated that they will go ahead with raffle and Marcus will go to slaughter.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

Learning about commercialism is fine for children, but sending a pet animal to the abattoir is not the way to go.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

The Headteacher who vindicates herself by talking about raising money from Marcus' body to purchase further animals has lost the point completely.

Comedian Paul O'Grady has stepped in to try and save the Lydd Primary School sheep which is due to be killed on Monday.

 

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I have spent the day trying to find Marcus the sheep destined for slaughter on Monday.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

There are many ways to teach children where food comes from without them having to raise and kill an animal.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

I have 2 daughters that go to Lydd Primary and they have been aware, along with all the other children, that they would raise the lamb and then send it to market / slaughter in September.

Dear Editor,

Re:-Anger over Shepway primary school slaughtering sheep

This headmistress displays a sadistic attitude to those children who are deeply upset by this decision, having been involved in hand rearing the lamb.
 

Parents of pupils who hand-reared a sheep at their Shepway school are angry that the animal is to be slaughtered and the meat raffled.
 

Actress Joanna Lumley visited schoolchildren and parents attending a fete at a Dover school on Saturday.
 

A group of schoolchildren have been given an insight into the way Shepway Council works and makes decision when they visited the Civic Centre.

Teachers from The Folkestone Academy met their counterparts from across the channel to plan a series of vocational exchanges for their pupils.
 

The Government have announced plans to create Britain's first military academy at a historic boarding school in Dover

A Dover Independent school whose past pupils have included the principal choreographer and director of the Royal Ballet, Sir Frederick Ashton and TV personality Simon Cowell has, despite the recession seen enquiries for independent education rise dramatically.
 

Pupils at a local school have won the 2009 ‘Think Food and Farming Breakfast Challenge’ sponsored by the South East Food Group Partnership (SEFG).

Fifty one students from the Folkestone Academy were able to put faces to names when they travelled to College Angellier in Boulogne to meet their pen-pals.

The Inter-primary schools’ cross country event took place Monday 9 March at Dover College’s Farthingloe Grounds.

Pupils form the Infant and Junior department at Dover college have fully embraced National Book Day by centring a whole week around the theme of Superheroes.

Charlotte Firmin with young pupils from Dover College

The week, organised by teacher, Rachel Morley, included many fun packed ideas for the children to try.

The children began the week by bringing in their favourite book and taking part in a book speed dating activity to encourage each other to read from a wider variety of Authors and styles.

On Tuesday, artist and book illustrator Charlotte Firmin joined the infant and junior department , to work with year groups creating illustrated stories centred around super heroes and super powers.

This was the highlight of the week for many children, who were truly inspired by the illustrators talents to make their stories unfold before their very eyes!

Buzzing with ideas the children then set to work designing their own super heroes and creating individual stories. The children also took part in a book token design competition as well as designing a book sleeve for their super hero stories.

A fun, insightful week was had by all.

An 11-year-old boy who lives near Sevenoaks and passed the eleven plus exam faces a 90-mile round trip to school each day after he was given a place at a grammar school in Folkestone.

Alex Chatfield, from Kemsing, near Sevenoaks, has been told his "nearest appropriate school" is The Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone.

The boys mother, Sandra said it would take her son just over two hours to get to school and another two hours to return.

"He would be able to do it if he walks to a station, takes one train, changes trains, gets a bus the other end, and has to still walk from the bus to the school," Mrs Chatfield said.

Kent County Council said the problem arose because grammar schools in west Kent were heavily subscribed.