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 LIVING LYDBURY campaign action team.
 

Lydbury North Parents and Friends at Shrewsbury May 19th

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Cllr Malcolm Pate has recommended that the Cabinet which are meeting on November 19th 2008  should decide to vote against the closure of Lydbury North School and the expansion of Clunbury and instead is allowing the Governors and staff at both schools to look into being a FEDERATED school.

This means that Lydbury North will keep its school !!!

The following Documents were released by Shropshire County Council, May 12th

Documents Clunbury Lydbury
                Clunbury Lydbury App 4
                Clunbury Lydbury App 1  
                Clunbury Lydbury App 3
                 Lydbury Parents    
                 Lydbury Governors         
                 Clunbury Governors  
                 Clunbury Parents

Living Lydbury Response Document

Lydbury Governors Response

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER  (147kb)

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

Group meetings are held on Mondays in school or Powis Arms
please contact shona@saveourschool.co.uk for more details

Minutes to last meetings

LINK to the Lydbury  North / Clunbury Amalgamation Document

 
February 26th
At the County Council Scrutiny meeting last week which 'called in' the Cabinet decision to go ahead with the amalgamation of Lydbury & Clunbury schools I proposed that the amalgamations of both Lydbury & Clunbury & Oaklands & Longmeadow in Shrewsbury were removed from the list of 16 schools. This was on the basis that a number of schools in the list of 16 actually did wish to consult on amalgamations but clearly neither Lydbury or Oaklands wanted this to proceed.  - Unfortunately my proposal was voted down by the panel 7 votes to 4. - (interestingly both the C of E and Roman Catholic representatives and the secondary schools rep voted with the Conservatives to defeat my proposal) -  I was surprised at the C of E reps stance given the support the church has given to Lydbury, but he was a stand in rep who may not have had a full grasp of the background!


Following this, the full council voted last Friday to set up an independently chaired commission to examine the policy again, although this does not seem to be likely to report until 2009 and will not therefore be of any help to save Lydbury and the other schools still threatened with amalgamation/closure, since this will still roll forward based on the existing policy put in place on the 14th December.

From Nigel Hartin

Ofsted Inspection. February 7th 2008,
The school was very pleased to be given a  GOOD report, especially with the recent change of staff and governors. The pupils behaviour was classed as "excellent"
February 20th, Shirehall
The scrutiny panel voted in favour of proceeding to consultation for those schools proposed for amalgamation.