Consultation on Proposed Free School - Secondary - for North Cornwall and Devon

By BudePeeps | Thursday, October 27, 2011, 10:13

A group of local parents have collaborated to launch a free school proposal for North Cornwall and Devon, which they say will complement existing secondary schools in the area, but which opponents say will take funding away from the current schools.

Free Schools are the brainchild of Oxford-educated Education Minister, Michael Gove. Free schools are all-ability state-funded schools, set up in response to what local parents say they want. One, a Catholic School, so by nature, selective, has been set up in Truro.

The local group call themselves Route 39 - so called as the school would be situated somewhere off the A39 between Bude and Bideford - and invite local people to their roadshow of consultation meetings. The meetings are as follows. As there is no meeting yet organised for Bideford, then the assumption is that the school would be situated closer to Bude:

Monday 7th Nov: 8pm, Parkhouse Centre, Bude (Blanchminster Rooms)

Thursday 10th Nov: 8pm, Grenville Rooms, Kilkhampton

Monday 14th Nov: 8pm, Hartland Parish Hall

Tuesday 15th Nov: 8pm, The Bray Institute, Marhamchurch

Thursday 17th Nov: 8pm, Bradworthy Memorial Hall

Monday 21st Nov: 8pm, Morwenstow Community Centre

Tuesday 22nd Nov: 8pm, St Petrocs School, Bude

Wednesday 23rd Nov: 8pm, Woolsery Village Hall

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Route 39 Education Project thanks BudePeeps for publishing the dates of our forthcoming meetings.

We would like to emphasise that the group is not flying any political colours. Whatever the politics behind it, a free school proposal is an opportunity - during one of the worst recessions this country has faced - to invest in our children's education and the local economy. A new school will be creating jobs as well as school places.

Overall, the focus of the Free School proposal is about local children and offering them a choice of school because they are all different and have different needs.

The proposed school will not be selective. Its admissions policy in order of priority would run: statemented children, children with siblings at the school and distance from the school.

We cannot yet define the exact location of the school but we anticipate that it will be between Kilkhampton and Clovelly. A second phase of community presentations in North Devon, from Hartland to Bideford is planned, and details will be posted on our website. http://tinyurl.com/5wmdysq

By Route_39 at 21:53 on 31/10/11
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