Issue - items at meetings - Proposed extending of the age range of Benfield Junior School. Proposal to move to Statutory Notice.

Report of the Director of Children’s Services (copy attached)

1.                  To note and endorse the proposal to create an all through primary school by changing the age range of Benfield Junior School from 7 – 11 as at present to 4 to 11 from September 2011. 

2.                  That the results from the initial consultation exercise are referred to Cabinet Member Meeting on 11^th October 2010 for decision. 

13.1         The Cabinet Member for Children and Young People considered a report of the Director of Children’s Services on the proposed extension of age ranges at Benfield Junior School.

13.2         Councillor Hawkes welcomed the proposals which she believed would give a secure future for the children of the school.

13.3         Councillor Fryer referred to item 3.7 and asked what the benefit would be to more infant places and a decrease in junior places. The Head of Capital Strategy and Development Planning answered that the three form entry would continue at junior level until 2012. However, the proposals were part of a wider re-organisation which if successful would create an additional two forms of entry in the Portslade area of the city. A report on this would follow and wide ranging consultation on the matter would begin imminently.

13.4         RESOLVED- That the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People approve the recommendations as follows:

1.                  To note and endorse the proposal to create an all through primary school by changing the age range of Benfield Junior School from 7 – 11 as at present to 4 to 11 from September 2011. 

2.                  That the results from the initial consultation exercise are referred to Cabinet Member Meeting on 11^th October 2010 for decision.