WORCESTER'S MP has visited a city school in his first ministerial visit since being appointed to the Department for Education.

Robin Walker returned to North Worcester Primary Academy, having opened the school in 2019, and enjoyed a tour including to newly built areas of the John Comyn Drive-based school.

Mr Walker saw the newly built pre-school extension and high-tech immersive room, and the MP also met a group of Year 6 children from St Clement’s C of E Primary School and Cranham Primary School, schools also part of the Rivers School unbrella, who talked to him about the curriculum.

During the visit Mr Walker voiced how the Rivers curriculum was "Really exciting”.

He told staff and pupils that he has had previous discussions with colleagues about the need for there to be more about sustainability in curriculum subjects, such as science and geography, and he was particularly excited by the way Rivers had “pulled the whole thing into a coherent curriculum”.

Kerry Rochester, director of education for the Rivers C of E Academy Trust, invited the MP to visit again at the end of the academic year to see how the curriculum has been further embedded and to see how it has empowered children to think about how they can make a difference to the world.