Issue - meetings

To consider a report from the Executive Director - People (copy enclosed)

Members considered a report from the Executive Director – People, which sought a final decision on the proposed change of age range at St Bees Village Primary School and Wigton Infant School.

An initial public consultation exercise on the change of age ranges was carried out between 6 June 2022 and 15 July 2022, and legal notices were published on 12 October and 13 October 2022 which triggered a 4 week representation period. 

St Bees was a thriving Governor–led nursery which the Head and School Governors now wanted to integrate more fully into the primary school.  To formally make the nursery part of the school the age range would need to change from 4 to 11 years of age to a new range of 2 to 11 years.

The extension of age range would allow the school to more effectively share its resources with the nursery, whilst making no changes to the day-to-day running of the existing arrangements for parents and children.

No responses were received during the representation period.

In September 2020 Wigton Infant School changed its age range to 2 to 7 years in order to allow it to take on the former Longthwaite Road Pre-School.

Following a review of the facility since that date, and a temporary change to concentrate on 3 year-olds, it was now proposed to permanently amend the age range of the school to 3 to 7 years of age. 

No responses were received during the representation period.

RESOLVED, that the Cabinet  

(1)        Agrees to implement the proposed change of age range at St Bees Village School from 4 to 11 to 2 to 11 years;

(2)        Agrees to implement the change of age range at Wigton Infant School from 2 to 7 to 3 to 7 years.