As I alluded to on the IW Radio phone-in last week, there is Council data around that indicates that the need for primary pupil school places will increase over the next decade.
The chart shows a 25-30% increase in primary places by 2017.
Also see - http://eduwight.iow.gov.uk/the_lea/amp/images/SCH_POP_FORC_2007.pdf
for all the data.
7 comments:
I have just been looking at our Island MP's web site to see what he thinks about the school proposals. It's strange but I can't find any mention of them at all. Does he not want to commit himself or does he just have no opinion?
2017 Geoff, are you seriously proposing we fund these schools until then from our council taxes? Nine years of waste!
The proposed closures are a good idea and inevitable. Let's go for it, standards have not risen quickly enough, it's time to put a rocket under the islands education system. We owe it to local children.
Anon, please explain to me just exactly how uprooting teachers and their students from one school and dumping them into another miles away will improve standards of teaching?
Anon 1 - the MP is against as his press relase last week made clear. He hasn't got a death wish.....
Anon 2 - yes. See response from Anon 3 ! Also not waste, but acting on the wishes of the community, with the knowledge that school places will be needed incrementally over the next 9 years
Yes he made that grudging press release, but he didn't post in on his web site and has made comment about schools there. Lots of other news but according to him this issue doesn't exist. And yet it's the biggest thing to happen to the Island since he became MP. Is he frightened or what?
Sorry, that should read 'he has made NO comment about schools there'
Geoff,
The options tables sum to 54FE for option 1 (55FE for options 2&3). Multiplying by class size (30?) and 5 years, that gives 8100 places - sufficient for the year2017. Perhaps the question is 'Will our plan have less than 10% surplus places (to get the £7M), or is a standard form now 26 pupils?'
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