Parents publish tongue-in-cheek school report for Justine Greening

Members of Save Our Schools published the report after Ms Greening, the secretary of state for education, announced an extra £2.6bn for schools over the next two years.

With headteachers and parents having campaigned for more than two years for more funding, there was praise for Ms Greening's 'listening skills' in the tongue-in-cheek report, though her maths skills came in for a battering.

The report, which was published on Facebook, read: "Justine has found addressing the issue of school funding this year quite challenging.

"Her listening skills have improved, and she has developed an understanding that schools need more money.

"Justine has not achieved ‘maths mastery’; she needs to show her working out – in particular what her numbers mean when divided by increasing numbers of pupils and demonstrating where the money might come from.

“Overall, her work requires improvement and she will need to work hard next term to meet parent and teacher expectations.”

In the House of Commons on Monday (July 17), Ms Greening laid out her plans for school funding over the next two years.

Announcing an extra £1.3bn per year for schools in 2018/19 and 2019/20, she told MPs the government was determined to listen to the concerns of the electorate – concerns which made themselves abundantly clear during the run-up to the general election.

She added: “The additional funding I am setting out today, together with the introduction of a national funding formula, will provide schools with the investment they need to offer a world-class education to every child.”

The government had pledged to pump an extra £4bn into education over the next four years, but Ms Greening said any spending beyond 2019/20 would be “set out in a future spending review”.