Laura Trott MP
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Conservative MP for Sevenoaks and Swanley. Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Promoted by Laura Trott of 6 Wealden Place, Bradbourne Vale Rd, Sevenoaks
Joined November 2024
Poor behaviour is one of the biggest challenges in schools, yet Labour’s Schools Bill is silent on it. We must back teachers to maintain discipline, & children need to learn that actions have consequences. Ignoring it fails the 29 who want to learn & the 1 crying out for help.
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Let me remind you what the Tory legacy is...phonics, a knowledge-rich curriculum & rigorous assessment. English pupils became the best at reading & maths in the Western world. Reforms other countries marvel at. Labour want to wreck it with no evidence it will improve schools.
Labour will never shirk the tough decisions needed for national renewal. We'll leave behind RAAC-free schools. Never let the Tories forget their legacy in education 👇
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Children in Labour run Wales are being badly let down. They have “less chance of becoming literate than children in England.” This is what happens when you ignore the evidence of what works and pander to unions, a trap Bridget Phillipson seems determined to fall into too.
Welsh Government reading expert quits, warning new ÂŁ8.2m literacy plan 'not fit for purpose' https://t.co/EeL6kZca0H
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What is consigning them to the scrap heap is a lower level qualification. Are we really saying that white working-class children are less capable of achieving the same qualifications as their peers, or that the answer is to lower expectations? It’s an insult.
The Tories' policy of an endless cycle of resits consigned young people to the scrapheap. White working class pupils are twice as likely to need to resit. Labour is putting better support in place to give them the vital English & maths skills they need. https://t.co/T5FHF0w9zi
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Bridget Phillipson has put pathetic ideology before pupils with her decision to pause a new Eton college in Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough’s most gifted but deprived children deserve better than this. I talk to the Teesside Gazette in my role as councillor on this shameful move.
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A government update on planned free schools is expected later this year while the Eton Star Partnership says they are still 'fully committed' to the project in Middlesbrough
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No good blaming OBR for fiscal problems. Reeves took a big gamble by (1) saying tax rises not needed before election (2) leaving no headroom against fiscal rules at last Budget (3) saying she wouldn’t be back for more. Looks like gambles not paying off https://t.co/Tomrx6YUrA
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We need to act to get children off social media, it’s normalising knives for young people and escalating conflicts in school, as we saw in this case.
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We have put down amendments to the Schools Bill to create a clear presumption: bring a knife into school and you are out. Sexually assault someone and you’re out. This should not be controversial. Labour should put politics aside and back us.
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Introducing the @geoffreywoo protocol: 1. Eat only animals and fish. If you want carbs (noodles and gummy bears equally valid), then exercise afterwards. 2. Don’t lift weights. Do a lot of pull ups, push up, planks, and runs. Target minimum 100 pull ups, 300 push ups, lots of
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Across the country, violence in schools is rising. Knives in classrooms, fights filmed and shared online. The two boys in this case had fallen out on social media just days before the killing. We must get smartphones out of schools and children off social media. Enough is
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In London, Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan is urging schools to sign an “inclusion charter.” Inclusion must never come at the expense of safety. Parents must know their children are safe in school. It is not compasion to keep a child with a knife in class.
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Schools should never be forced into keeping pupils who bring weapons on site. Exclusions exist to protect the safety and wellbeing of others. Failing to act puts everyone at risk. Labour do not agree, the local MP, Louise Haigh has argued against exclusions.
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At the time, Sheffield Council was trying to reduce exclusions. Their own documents talk about “exclusion prevention” and “challenging academies on exclusion.” Discouraging exclusions is wrong-headed. It is not what’s right for other pupils in the class.
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Mohammed’s mother found an axe in his school bag and reported it to the school. He was later found with another weapon on school grounds. Yet he was not excluded.
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We need to be honest about the need for exclusions. This was an entirely preventable tragedy. There were clear warnings that this pupil should have been excluded and ignoring them had devastating consequences.
Absolutely baffled and horrified to read that the 15 year old boy who murdered Harvey Willgoose at school had already brought an AXE into school, then brought another KNIFE into school - before then bringing in the knife to murder Harvey. Someone needs to explain why in the
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Children & teachers must feel safe at school. We should have a zero tolerance to knives in schools. In a split second it can change so many lives. Pushing zero exclusions is wrongheaded. Labour must back our amendments to the Schools Bill that means one knife and you’re out.
Kids across UK 'terrified' of school over knife crime fears as absence soars https://t.co/P8zNJv48gB
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New paper makes important causal links between the positive effect of a cellphone ban in school on student outcomes 👇 @LauraTrottMP
Evidence is coming in: Removing phones improves learning. And this study was in Florida, which only bans phones DURING class time, which misses out on most of the benefits (social, discipline....) of a phone-free school day. https://t.co/1ZxlQzgqcH
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Starmer’s candidate has lost the faith of even Labour members, and it is a vote of no confidence in Bridget Phillipson’s disastrous Schools Bill.
Lucy Powell elected Labour's deputy leader
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And to think, omnishambles used to describe ill-advised pasty taxes
This week the Government's failure to find a solution to the Maccabi ban was then overshadowed by the revelation a small boat migrant had returned after less than a month, which in turn was overshadowed by the collapse of the rape gang inquiry, which in turn was overshadowed by
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This is awful. Some Heads find themselves under intense pressure to avoid exclusion. Those pushing zero exclusions may mean well but ignore very real situations that sadly can happen. There has to be ZT to weapons in schools & PEX has to be the outcome. Then support can follow.
Absolutely baffled and horrified to read that the 15 year old boy who murdered Harvey Willgoose at school had already brought an AXE into school, then brought another KNIFE into school - before then bringing in the knife to murder Harvey. Someone needs to explain why in the
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If you bring a knife/ axe or similar weapon to school, you should be permanently excluded. Anything less is a horrendous dereliction of the duty of care to the rest of the school community. It also teaches everyone else: bring in a weapon and you will be excluded. Not doing so
Absolutely baffled and horrified to read that the 15 year old boy who murdered Harvey Willgoose at school had already brought an AXE into school, then brought another KNIFE into school - before then bringing in the knife to murder Harvey. Someone needs to explain why in the
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How was this disgusting man’s status not being constantly monitored by the Government? He was one of the highest profile inmates they had. Shambolic doesn’t cover it
🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨🚨 A police manhunt is underway to find the Epping hotel migrant sex attacker after he was accidentally released from jail. Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre but was mistakenly freed https://t.co/2reOVN6RMU
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