And what an uplifting St. George’s day I’ve had!

I visited Wildern School in Hedge End, along with Mark Francois MP, Shadow Minister for Europe and Jerry Hall, County Council Candidate for Botley and Hedge End.

The school is one of the top 100 secondary schools in the UK and it’s so obvious why! The Head Miss. Litton is visionary; one of those extraordinary Head Teachers who is in tune with her pupils, her staff and the local community. Wildern is a performing Arts College and can boast awesome facilities, facilities which are used by the local community extensively.

The pupils we met really shone. We had a Q and A session with the school cabinet, who truly kept us on our toes. There are definitely some budding politicians to look out for there!

Mark did a follow-up radio interview to the one I did a couple of weeks ago. Testing times, even though Mark is used to being interviewed by John Humphries and the like!

It is inspiring to see first hand the first-class education children in our constituency are getting.

Our annual St. George’s Day dinner was a tremendous celebration in Hamble. I talked about our experience of Wildern School. This school is the sort of community that makes me proud to be English. Certainly something to celebrate.