School plan goes in
Plans to open a new £4.7m lower school in south Leighton move forward this week when a scheme to give its management to one of Linslade’s hugely successful lower schools looks likely to be rubber stamped by education chiefs.
Tomorrow Central Beds Council members will be asked to endorse Greenleas Lower School as the winning team to run a second campus on Kestrel Way, Sandhills.
A planning application for the new build goes before Leighton-Linslade Town Council on Wednesday and the school is expected to welcome its first 60 pupils in September next year.
When fully functioning the two sites will house 600 pupils, aged four to nine, plus a nursery unit on each site. But the project has upset some parents of children already attending the Derwent Road campus who fear that teaching standards will drop and teachers, resources, and amenities will be stretched to the limit.
For more on this story see the August 21 issue of the LBO.
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Thursday 20 June 2013
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