Mr Ward and Labour's shadow schools spokesman Kevin Brennan also raised the position of Conservative vice-chairman Alan Lewis, who is an executive patron of the school and on whose land the school is built.
A new school building adjacent to the existing site was opened in 2012 by the Earl of Wessex (Patron of the school).
Even in the most considered reactions, it is possible to detect an undertow of anguish: it is infuriating to ponder the truth in Barr's claim that the public no longer values poetry, and to contemplate some of the choices the foundation has made, especially as the traditional patrons of poetry — schools, independent publishers, little magazines — struggle to keep their programs alive.
What is common practice is long days, tough discipline, testing, and 'no excuses.'" One parent lamented that the charter sector thinks that parents and children are problems, not patrons of the schools.
Joseph was declared patron of all Christian schools by Pope Pius XII in 1948.
For years Trollope has been a patron of a specialist school for children "deemed ineducable and uncontrollable".
He was generous to his readers and his city, including becoming a patron of the Royal school, a role which he valued highly.
Another successful son of a Hull trading family was bishop John Alcock, who founded Jesus College, Cambridge and was a patron of the grammar school in Hull.
Among the patrons of the school are some of the biggest names in the Russian business world, like Ruben Vardanian, founder of Troika Dialog investment bank, as well as global companies like Credit Suisse and industrial giants like Severstal, the Russian steel maker.
In 1880 Leo made Aquinas patron of all Roman Catholic schools.
