A consultation has been launched as the Isle of Wight Council seeks views on a reduction to the ‘Published Admission Number’ (PAN) at 4 primary schools, with the loss of a total of 52 school places.
The consultation period, set at 6 weeks by a statutory Government code, will end on 6th January 2023. The council has a legal duty to determine arrangements that will apply to school admissions for the academic year 2024/25 by 28th February 2023 and replies to the consultation will need to go before the council’s Cabinet in January to meet this deadline.
It is proposed that a total of 15 places will be lost at Barton Primary, Broadlea Primary and Carisbrooke CE Primary, with 7 places lost at Godshill Primary.
It means there will be 1,342 places available for children starting school in September 2024, a reduction from 1,394. For those going from primary to secondary school, there will be a total of 1,255 places available.
Submissions can be made online at https://www.iow.gov.uk/Council/OtherServices/School-Admissions/Admissions-Consultation-for-201819.
Residents can visit County Hall or the libraries to view and respond to this consultation online if they do not have internet access. Alternatively, they can do so by post to: Miss R Adams, Senior Business Support Officer (Admissions and Transport), Floor 4, County Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 1UD.
There goes another school.
This isn’t surprising, There has been a 13% fall in the number of 0 to 4 year olds since 2011 and an average decrease in the number of all school age children of 8%.
Indeed the number of people under 65 on the island has fallen by 13% while the number over 65 has increased by 25%.
The Isle of Wight is rapidly becoming the Isle of Grey
To be honest, I’d rather have more people coming here to retire than the other sort we get i.e. the undesirables offloaded by other Councils. Generally, OAPs don’t go around dealing drugs, vandalising buildings, knifing people, assaulting people in the street etc.
Yes, we might get a few more medical episodes at the wheel, but I, for one, would happily put up with that rather than bringing more scummy people here.
I for one would exchange children and families for judgemental, self-righteous Ilk such as yourself Catherine Johnson
Very true Cath.
A lot more of ‘that sort’ have arrived, so expect crime and more scattered clones awaiting adoption here as happens wherever they settle enmasse
No.
They tend to be pervy old noncers.
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/face-of-an-abuser-70-year-old-jailed-for-15-years-after-abusing-2-young-girls/
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/child-rapist-from-chale-handed-22-year-sentence-by-judge/
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/west-wight-rapist-admits-further-horrific-sex-offences-against-children/
Thats a typical IOW OAP
Who pays for all the OAP immigrants from the mainland, its basic economics, they are costing more and more and the rest suffer. You need working people to generate the required funding for the island to survive. If we are going to survive and prosper we need younger people in positions of power and say and not people who do not constantly push their own selfish personal agendas like most of our imported parish and IOW Council members