Tag Archives: Heather Tomlinson

She were useless

Posted on January 20, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Have a look at the press release eventually published by Bristol City Council announcing the departure of Education boss, Heather Tomlinson. She says: “Special thanks is (sic) also due to all the parents, grandparents, carers and families in Bristol, who … Continue reading →

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Carole Caplan gets angry as Heather Tomlinson exit is confirmed … by Heather Tomlinson!

Posted on January 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

By Our Correspondent If last week you heard what sounded like the distant rumble of thunder then it was probably actually the sound of Carole Caplan storming around his Council House PR hidey-hole having had his plan to hold ‘the … Continue reading →

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News from ze Heatherbunker: ze final direktive

Posted on December 31, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

(Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s resident cartoonist. He has a woman’s name) HAPPY NEW YEAR – we’re off to a good start anyway …

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One law for them

Posted on December 9, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like Bristol City Council have discovered a whole new means of stopping ordinary people from finding out what they’re really up to by, er … simply breaking the law! The Blogger reported last week that Heather Tomlinson’s retarded … Continue reading →

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Dying for a change?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

After yesterday’s eventual departure of Sharon Shoesmith, Haringay’s Director of Children’s Services, in the wake of the traumatic levels of bureaucratic failure surrounding the death of ‘Baby P’, James Barlow has been taking a look at Bristol’s Safeguarding Children Board … Continue reading →

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Completely illegal Bristol City Council try-on of the week

Posted on November 30, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Comes, not unsurprisingly, from Heather Tomlinson’s intellectually vacuous education department. Local Campaigners trying to save the extremely good and popular Sefton Park School from congenital school wrecker, Peter Hammond’s factory-style expansion plans have recently resorted to using the Freedom of … Continue reading →

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Minute of the week

Posted on March 19, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

“There remain two key issues over documentation issued to the Forum – timeliness and quality.” Bristol Schools Forum, Minutes of the meeting 29 January 2008 (pdf) Take a bow Bristol’s £140k a year education boss Heather Tomlinson, who – along … Continue reading →

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Direktive from ze Heatherbunker

Posted on November 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A reader directs The Blogger to this term’s edition of Herr Direktor Tomlinson’s glossy newsletter(PDF) for school governors as we “may want to read the series of crap excuses she’s concocted”! The reader continues: No great major spelling mistakes immediately … Continue reading →

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Day 4 of my experiment

Posted on November 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Time for an update on The Blogger’s great e-democracy experiment to get rid of Heather Tomlinson. On Friday The Blogger fired off an email to the council’s e-democracy department requesting some simple information on their confidentiality arrangements with regards to … Continue reading →

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The last days of the Heathersreich

Posted on November 5, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Sounds like it’s beginning to resemble the fall of Berlin in the Tomlinson Schoolzbunker at the Council House. Our man with the password to the server in Bristol’s Education department says that Herr Direktor Heather Tomlinson is now so paranoid … Continue reading →

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