Priti Patel MP brings Get Witham Reading 2022 to eight local schools
A large number of local schools from across the Witham constituency have participated in Priti Patel’s Get Witham Reading 2022 literacy campaign. Priti’s campaign was established to boost the literacy of school students across the constituency. It has been cited by OFSTED as a strong model of community engagement and …
Careers fair brings major employers to local secondary schools and supports students with career development
Witham MP, Priti Patel, has re-established her annual careers fair for local secondary school pupils, post pandemic. The Careers Fair, was organised in conjunction with Essex Chambers of Commerce and hosted by Maltings Academy on Friday 1st July. The brainchild of Priti Patel MP, the Fair was attended by more …
MP’s Get Witham Reading campaign celebrates its tenth anniversary
Priti Patel, the MP for Witham has launched her annual school literacy campaign ‘Get Witham Reading 2022’. The campaign was held for the first time in 2012, when children’s literacy levels in Witham fell below the national average. At the time, 1 in 6 pupils were leaving school without achieving …
Priti Patel MP visits The Stanway School in Colchester, Essex to talk to students about the key issues
Priti Patel, the Member of Parliament for the Witham constituency, which includes Stanway, has paid a visit to the Stanway School in Winstree Road, to chat to students about their GCSE Citizenship work and projects. Several students contacted Priti with questions on young people in poverty and homelessness which were …
Priti gets her first look at new special needs school in Witham
On Friday morning, 11th March, Witham MP Priti Patel made her first visit to the new Chatten Free School, which opened in September 2021 and has been created and designed specifically for children with special needs. Adam Dean, the Headteacher, showed Priti the new school building and grounds situated in …
Priti meets new Headteachers and gets quizzed by students at two Witham schools
Local MP, Priti Patel has spent a morning (3rd December 2021) visiting two schools in Witham. She began with a visit to Maltings Academy during which she met, for the first time, new Headteacher, Sherry Zand and Damian Lee, who is the Executive Headteacher at the Maltings and New Rickstones …
4 year-old Acorn Academy pupil claims top prize in MP’s Christmas card design competition
Priti Patel, the MP for Witham, has today (3rd December 2021) called in to Acorn Academy in Witham to present prizes to the winner and two runners up, in the MP’s own annual Christmas card competition for 2021. The MP received more than 70 entries for her competition, from seven …
Priti praises Powers Hall Academy students for holding National Democracy Day School Election
In celebration of National Democracy Day on Wednesday 15th September, Powers Hall Academy children participated in a vote for their school councillors, replicating polling stations as seen during a general election. Students nominated themselves, wrote and delivered manifestoes to their classmates, who submitted their votes to elect the winning candidates. …
Priti Patel visits ten local schools on Get Witham Reading Day 2021
On Friday 9th July, ten schools in Witham participating in Get Witham Reading 2021, received a personal visit from Witham MP, Priti Patel. This is the MP’s tenth annual school literacy campaign aimed at improving standards of literacy across the Witham constituency. During her visits, Priti heard all about the …
Schools line up for Get Witham Reading 2021
Thirteen schools in Witham have confirmed their participation in Get Witham Reading 2021, organised by Witham MP, Priti Patel. This is the MP’s tenth annual school literacy campaign aimed at improving standards of literacy across the Witham constituency and it reaches its conclusion on Friday 9th July. This year’s participants …