Reedley Primary School to expand as Pendle birth rate rises (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Reedley Primary School to expand as Pendle birth rate rises
11:55am Wednesday 23rd November 2011 in Reedley
ANOTHER Pendle primary school is set for expansion to try to create enough school places for youngsters in the borough.
Education bosses at Lancashire County Council are proposing to expand Reedley Primary School as the birth rate in Nelson and Brierfield continues to rise.
A planned permanent expansion at Holy Trinity Primary School, in Halifax Road, Brierfield, has been shelved after the governors decided not to go ahead with the plans.
Lynn MacDonald, Lancashire County Council's schools planning and development manager, said: “Recent increases in the number of births in Brierfield and Nelson means that, as local children reach statutory school age, there may not be sufficient places in these areas to meet the demand for September 2012 and beyond.”
The new proposal will see a temporary increase in admission at Reedley Primary School, in Reedley Road, for September 2012.
A formal consultation will also look at permanently expanding the school by September 2013 through new accommodation on the school site.
The most controversial move to increase numbers will see a formal consultation begin on moving St Paul’s Primary School, in Hibson Road, Nelson to the former Mansfield High School site in Elland Road.
That would see capacity double to around 420, but it has angered parents and councillors, who are concerned at moving the church school to a new site one mile away.
Ms MacDonald said only one of the potential sites was deemed suitable to deliver the new school in the time required.
will12 says...
9:23am Fri 25 Nov 11
Pendle, No Jobs, No Prospects, Pound Shop Central !!!!
So nowt else to do but have kids !!!!!!
People who do have Jobs/Careers have to plan when they can have kid's, because they have commitments, such as a Mortgage/Exam/Change
d Job or Career, but those who have nothing better to do or ONLY work 16 Hours to get the most out of the system, just have kid's !!!!!
Just like the Public Sector Pension's, having kid's is unsustainable and expecting someone else to pay !!!!
I had my 2.4 kid's, (now 1.8), but anything over, you can't afford, you should not have.
The "China System" should be brought in at once, I child per family !!!! Or
Personally, if you weren't Married or couldn't afford them, then you wouldn't be able to have them. And some of the so-called Parenting by these young kid's leaves a lot to be desired, the "Greggs Dummy" springs to mind !!!!
My daughter has loved kid's from a very early age, and seen most of her family and friends have babies, she chose the Career, and now she is being told, she is getting near the threshold of being "too old" !!! 29 and too old !!!!!! Maybe she should have gone down the "23 and 5 kid's route", then people wonder why Society is the way it is, No Respect for anything !!!!!!