Balderstone (technical) college is a standing joke. It is no more better than a standard comprehensive school. Just ideas above and beyond its means. Face reality and improve from the bottom up; maybe then will you get the quality that is sadly lacking....oh but I forget...this school is set to close and merge with the other so called college...lets hope you get rid of the teachers that think teaching is a means to long holidays and short hours. Make teachers proud of where they teach and whom they also educate!

   I would imagine most of the pupils were born and raised in Britain, so there is absolutely no excuse for them to have English as a second language. Most will have been taught by English speakers from the age of four too. It's laziness on the part of parents and this filters down to their kids. English should be the ONLY spoken and written language in any UK scholl, unless the lesson is to learn a foreign one, not the other way round.

   Dont they take into consideration the fact that a great number of pupils might not have English as a first language?