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Friday May 15, 2009
The Mead school to amalgamate.
Wingfield Primary School to close.
The IE has agreed to publish Statutory Notices to close Wingfield Church of England VA Primary School and to amalgamate it with the Mead Community Primary School to form one school operating on both sites from 1 September 2009.
The move didn't meet with wholehearted support from either Hilperton or Wingfield communities.
The consultation only offered two alternatives, both of which involved the closure of the Wingfield school.
As is only too common with this type of public 'consultation', the third option (of keeping Wingfield open as a stand-alone school) didn't get mentioned.
Residents of Wingfield now need to keep an eye on WC to ensure that they don't decide to close the site in a year or so and sell it off for housing...