NEW play equipment has been installed at Emmer Green Primary School. It includes a new slide and climbing wall that have been put in the reception year garden r.
On behalf of the family, Ruth Perry’s sister, Julia Waters, said Ruth’s death was the “direct result” of the “deeply harmful” inspection and was in “a direct result of the pressure put on her by the process and outcome” of the inspection.
Teachers at John Rankin School in Newbury, Berkshire - where the headteacher had planned to refuse inspectors entry but then reversed her decision - wore armbands outside the school today.
Olly Stephens: funeral for teenager who died in Emmer Green stabbing HUNDREDS of mourners dressed in red gathered today to pay their respects to a teenager who was fatally stabbed in Emmer Green. The funeral of 13-year-old Olly Stephens was held at Reading Crematorium this morning at 11.30am. Ahead of the ceremony, family, friends, and those touched by his tragic death lined the streets as the funeral cortege drove past. Many dressed in red as this was Olly’s favourite colour. The cortege drove through parts of Emmer Green including past Olly’s old schools Highdown School and Emmer Green Primary, where staff stood outside to pay their respects to the former pupil.