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Stand-alone threat
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
27 September 2007
An award-winning nursery school with three outstanding Ofsted reports faces closure and relocation to a primary school, because South Tyneside council wants to cut surplus school places.
Under its Transforming Our Primary Schools proposals, the local authority wants the Clervaux nursery school - one of four stand-alone nursery units in Jarrow - to merge with Jarrow Cross primary. But acting head Ann Stevens said, 'We are very concerned that should nursery provision move to the primary school, it would no longer have the high profile that it has in a stand-alone nursery. Nursery schools are few and far between, and research shows that the standard...
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