Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2014/100

Contact: Diane Cameron, School Organisation Officer Tel (01865) 816445

Report by Director for Children’s Services (CMDCEF5).

This proposal is led by Oxfordshire County Council and is effectively a "merger" of West Kidlington Nursery and Primary Schools.

The process that must be followed in order to effect this merger, is to close the Nursery School as a separate establishment and alter the age range of the Primary School.

The two schools are run by the same governing body and Headteacher already and so there should be no change on the ground to provision offered. All accommodation remains as before and the intended result is a streamlining of administration, reducing time for staff and consolidating two budgets into one.

The Cabinet Member for Children, Education & Families is RECOMMENDED to approve the publication of a statutory notice for the closure of West Kidlington Nursery School and the linked extension of age range of West Kidlington Primary School.

Agreed.