Email to Bill Mcentee re Sibling Rule.doc

North Somerset are currently consulting (open to all) on the 2010 admission arrangements. This gives us a great opportunity to express our opinion about the newly amended sibling link rule.

Just to remind you…

The sibling link rule used to give preference within the over-subscripti… Continue

More homes more pressure on our schools.

Long Ashton Parish Council are having a Public Meeting to update everyone on the planned release of Green Belt land for development 7.30pm Tuesday 27th January 2009, Long Ashton Village Hall, Keedwell Hill BS41 9DP

For the benefit of people new to the campaign, here's a bit of background info:

There are two primary schools in Long Ashton: Birdwell and Northleaze. Each has a pupil capacity of 210, consisting of seven 30-pupil classes, one for each year group.

Between them, the village schools can accept up to 60 Reception class pupils each year. However, in 2008 twenty three Long Ashton children were denied a Reception Class place in the village. This is a trend forecast to worsen over the next few… Continue

An email last week from a NS District Councillor commented:

"Jeremy Blatchford's defence about the difficulties in predicting number for reception class seemed very weak. Generally, there are pretty good indicators from health data. ...

"I was surprised to hear about the scale of the problem and surprised about the lack protest from your elected members."

Are you interested in getting more involved with the LASCG? If so please read on.

Following Guy's newsletter #1 we want to arrange a meeting next week to run through how we intend to maintain momentum with the campaign. A few of us have been involved with a series of activities over the last month or so, and we have reached a stage when we would like to get further input, ideas and involvement from other members of LASCG.

In particular, at the meeting we intend to:
1) Discuss and agree a strat… Continue