The Marton Primary School school management, Chair of Governors and the Director of Children's Services have repeatedly relied on the apathy of parents when either refusing to answer questions or producing letters full of half truths or uninformed statements. The forum too contains many statements and opinions.

This website aims to provide links to websites where parents and other interested readers can further their understanding of the educational issues involved and so become able to make up their own minds about the quality of education which is being provided by Marton School and the way it has been run in recent years.

Marton Primary Schhol Forum Visit the Marton Primary School forum and browse to find out the reasons for concern over the past three years. Although the Chair of Governors and Director have been at pains to point out that only a small minority have been disatisfied there are many posts and still many readers visiting the site regularly.

Marton Primary School Blog by Mr Veale. An excellent account which gathers together the many threads which run through the forum to paint a clear picture of what has happened. He has met with many people at all levels of education and politics in order to try to gain answers to difficult questions.

Ofsted Reports Ofsted is the government's agency for inspecting schools. They select different agencies by tender to carry out their inspections of many institutions. Here you can find reports for any of the schools in Blackpool so that you can compare them with Marton. Marton Primary Schppl'sown report can be read in full here

Department for Children, Schools and Families (formerly DfES) This government department produces the league tables of Sats results for all schools - primary and secondary. This link takes you to these league tables - please visit and compare Marton's performance over the last three years with other schools in Blackpool and nationally.

Ofsted Conference Report 3 consecutive Leaders of Ofsted have now stated that 'satisfactory' for a school report is not good enough. Figures have shown that schools stated as satisfactory by their Ofsted report are in the bottom third of schools nationally (two thirds being good or outstanding). Despite this Mr Lund maintained that Marton's last inspection showed that Marton was a good school. Read one of Ofsted's own conference reports here.

DfES Press Release This press release is about the improvement of the recent KS2 sats results of 2007. Mr Lund stated in his latest letter to parents that it was the best ever set of results for the school. What he failed to point out, as this government statement makes clear, was that it was the best set of results for just about every other school too.

The Standards Site - Parental Involvement This site was produced specifically for parents by the DfES to provide information on the Home School Partnership. How effective is yours and how does it compare with the samples provided here ?

LGFL Services Lancashire Grid for Learning provides many of the IT services for NW schools. This link takes you to an explanation of the security provisions, such as the 'walled garden', which are needed for children to browse the internet safely in school. It was this web address which was sent to Mr Turner to help the governors better understand the issues raised when children at Marton accessed unsuitable sites - but judging by Mr Turner's statements they did not read it.

BECTA E-Safety BECTA is the agency set up by the government to develop IT in education. This link takes you to the e-safety policies for parents and carers, making it clear that parents and carers should be fully consulted on internet safety issues, and, where possible, should be involved in the development of school policies in this area, for example, through a parental representative on the school’s internet safety policy team.

CEOP The Government has set up this parents' and carers' area as part of its new Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre - also known as CEOP. The aim of the website is to help you understand some of the new technology that young people love to use, update you on some of the risks they may come into contact with and empower you to get involved in helping them be safer in their online experience.