More money for all local schools

Essex County Council is supporting a government campaign to support families to access online educational materials.

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced further support for schools, families and young people during the current school closures.

It is always heartening to see young people who are as enthusiastic about politics as me, so it was a real pleasure to bring more than 30 local sixth-form politics students together last week to take part in my second annual Mock Parliament.

As 2019 draws to a close, may I take this opportunity to thank you for your many messages of support this year.

More money for all local pupils

The Conservatives have committed to increase funding for all pupils in all schools.

After the success of the competition I ran last year with Brentwood and Ongar's primary schools to design a Christmas card I can send to constituents, contacts and colleagues, I am running the competition again this year and hope to receive even more entries.

More children across Essex, including Alex Burghart's Brentwood and Ongar constituency will be able to access a world-class education thanks to a major funding boost.

One of the first schools I visited in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency was Ingrave Johnstone C of E School.

Ingatestone Infant School celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this year and, in my mission to visit every school in Brentwood and Ongar, I decided it was time I went to say hello to the headteacher, Shelagh Harvey, staff and pupils.

I have just four schools left to visit of the forty-six in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency, having made it my mission when I was elected to visit every school in the patch to talk to headteachers, staff and pupils.

To all those who received their A level results last week and all those who get their GCSE results this week, good luck for what the future holds and well done for reaching this important stage in your lives. You may be on track to do exactly as you planned.