SCHOOL admission arrangements for 2012/13 in Warrington have been finalised following consultation with parents, community groups and other interested parties.
The arrangements affect all community and controlled schools within the borough. They have been amended to meet recommendations of the Local Admissions Forum – a statutory body bringing together school governors, parents, churches and local authorities.
Following consultation, key decisions relating to the partner primary arrangements for Bridgewater High School and Lymm High School have been made which will take effect from September 2012 and September 2017 respectively.
These are as follows:
Partner primary status with Bridgewater High School will be removed from Moore Primary School and Daresbury Primary School. This will apply to admissions from September 2012.
Partner primary status with Lymm High School will be removed from High Legh Primary School and Little Bollington CE Primary School, for admissions. This will apply to admissions to Lymm High School from September 2017.
Cllr Sheila Woodyatt, (pictured) the borough’s executive member for education, said: “I am very disappointed by this. I think it is quite wrong that families who have sent generations of their children to certain schools should no longer be able to do so.
“In the case of Lymm High, it will not happen until 2017, which means there is plenty of time for ideas to change. It may never happen – and I hope it will not.”
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So which high school will kids from High Legh and Little Bollington go to? Whichever one it is will entail those kids travelling PAST Lymm High to get there. And if the borough’s executive member for education is “very disappointed” by this, why doesn’t she do something about it? Or don’t our elected representatives have any influence over the issues they’re elected to oversee any more?
Before they built the new Stockton Heath primary there was already a surplus of circa 900+ primary places within a 2 mile area around Stockton Heath. It was questioned at the time whether the further (apparently not needed) additional places created by building the new school might have been created to service future planned housing development. Now they are forcing Daresbury and Moore primary pupils to attend secondary schools outside of the Warrington area. Has the pupil population really grown so much that they can’t be accommodated at Bridgewater….or is space being made for future housing growth?
In determining the number of school places needed, it is only where planning applications have already been passed for additional housing development that any ‘ predicted additional school places’ can be added to the calculation.
It may be worthwhile for the parents of the children who want to attend Bridgewater or Lymm Secondary schools to question the facts and figures?
This has been in the pipeline for years and is partly political. Moore and Daresbury are in Halton Borough, not Warrington, so should go to Halton high schools. When this was first suggested over 4 years ago there was an outcry from parents because of the concern about the standards at the schools in Runcorn which children would have been due to attend. Warrington high schools have a better reputation, particularly Bridgewater and Lymm which were and are oversubscribed. It appears they have now found a way to enforce the changing of some partnerships, unless of course the parents can find a way round it!!