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Members of the community hoping to save their schools put forward several alternatives to closure during the consultation on parish primary schools. Elliot Primary School in Devonshire was the only school originally slated for closure under the Paris...

“Grave concerns” were raised about students with special needs being separated from mainstream pupils, the consultation report has revealed. Anonymous submissions were recently made public in the Parish Primary School Decisions report. “There is grav...

The Government has prioritised public service, community and commercial use for the buildings that will be left after eight public primary schools close. Alternative future uses for the sites were detailed in the Parish Primary School Decisions repo...

A group set up to fight the closure of West End Primary School has claimed it was snubbed by the Government. The West End Warriors for Legacy said presented a petition with 315 signatures against the plan to shut the school as part of an education s...

It may be that the Government’s plans to close half of the island’s primary schools are so popular and make such good sense that that is the reason there has been virtually no opposition to the announcement last month. But that seems unlikely. But i...

On the eve of the holiday to commemorate our emancipation, the government of the day dipped its pen into the inkwell of callous arrogance and removed with one stroke 152 years of Black history. West End School in their minds should exist only in a mu...

The Cambridge curriculum should be scrapped under government’s education reform plans, the former principal of St George’s Preparatory School has said. Mary Lodge said that the relatively low Cambridge Primary Checkpoint results in English, Maths and...

The Progressive Labour Party has remained silent about whether one of its MPs will be disciplined for his vocal opposition to the closure of West End Primary School - as is the case with one of the party’s veteran members. Jamahl Simmons, MP for San...

Plans to close West End Primary School in Sandys came under heavy fire last night at a heated town hall meeting in Somerset Cricket Club. The gathering also delivered an uncommon rebuke to the Progressive Labour Party government, from the party’s own...

Parents need more information quickly from government so they can make informed and timely decisions following the formal announcement that eight primary schools will be closed, a Parent Teacher Association president said yesterday. Juanae Crockwell,...