When undersubscribed Huxley Primary School introduced flexischooling to boost enrolment, little did it know this would take it from four pupils to almost full capacity within three years.
It was a move that firmly placed the ‘tiny’ one-form-entry primary school in the rural village of Huxley, Cheshire on the map for providing a holistic approach to education that meets the unique needs of its children.
With six pupils attending full-time, and the remaining 87 per cent being flexischooled for three days a week, Huxley Primary School is one of a growing number of schools across the country to offer a legal, but widely unknown, flexible approach to formal education (see Case study).
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