I am very concerned about the Education Department’s proposal to close St. Andrew’s School and felt compelled to write to raise a significant point which I’m not sure is coming across to the general public: the fact that these proposed changes will affect many more of the islands’ children than just those at St. Andrew’s.
In the wake of the furore over Education’s aim to shut St Andrew’s School, a whistleblower has contacted Midweek Murphy to tell the truth about the way in which the decision was made.
On one especially lovely summer’s day when the hedgerows were alive with the buzz of the honeybee, and planes carved a cat’s cradle of vapour trails across a sapphire sky, a judge from Britain in Bloom poked around the parish of St Andrew’s, Guernsey.
I don’t know how much is too much to spend on a primary school. You see various figures knocking about for the running costs of St Andrew’s, and it is hard to conclude which one is correct. But let us say that the high-ish figure of £600,000 is right. On instinct, it still sounds like a bargain.
Put together by some concerned parents (not the St Andrew’s PTA), this video was created to spread the word – and with over 2.5k views and counting, it has certainly done that!
All of the island’s school PTAs were invited to a meeting held on Thursday evening at St. Andrew’s School to discuss proposals to make radical changes to the island’s primary school system.
St. Andrew’s Primary colour blue ribbon is a sell out across the island. The blue ribbon popping up across the island has proved so popular it’s now sold out in all island florists.
St. Andrew’s PTA committee says that it heard nothing from Deputy Sillars or Mr Mulkerrin on today’s phone in that convinces it that Education has real strength to its arguments.
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On Sunday 22 September, teachers, pupils and parents/carers of St. Andrew’s Primary School took a trip down to L’Eree for the annual clean-up. St. Andrews’s have been visiting the beach at the end of the summer for years and each year collect many bin bags full of rubbish left on the beach during the summer season. It’s a valuable exercise for the conservation of the wildlife on the beach and also teaches to the children involved about the dangers of littering.
