Today, we took the Oxfordshire County Council Chief Executive, Joanna Simons, on a tour of Grove and Wantage. I thought it was important to give her a flavour of the challenges facing our area, especially in the light of any further development on Grove airfield and in Wantage. The County will play a large part in negotiating the infrastructure; in particular our roads, our schools, our library and other community facilities.
We started the day at Millbrook School in Grove (see photo above left), where we were able to meet with headteacher, Sarah Weston, and some school governors. Next, we visited Grove Parish Council to meet local councillors after which we toured some of the businesses at Grove Technology Park. We are very grateful to Steve Head, Simon Ames and Robert Lamplough who hosted us there for lunch before we moved on to Wantage at King Alfred's College.
As you will see from the photo above (right), we were able to have a very interesting discussion with the headteacher, Simon Spiers, deputy Jonathan Smith and Peter Thompson, the Business Manager, about all of the issues facing education - especially with the new changes from the Government surrounding academies.
We rounded off the day with Wantage Town Council for tea at the Vale and Downland Museum, which was an excellent opportunity to catch up with what is happening locally in the town and a tour around the museum. We all enjoyed the day and I hope this will help to raise our profile at County Hall.
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