Shropshire school

I encourage you to read this Shropshire Star article 'Have lessons been learned?' looking back at a battle to save school 22 years ago. Perhaps we can look back and learn something. The Corbet School was not always the success it is today. Yes, it has increased in size and has now become very popular indeed. What can Billinghay learn from their experiences?

David Smith, a grandfather from Myddle looks back on their battle:
“We had children at the school and faced the prospect of the school being closed due to the assumption by Shropshire County Council that the falling birth rate in the school’s catchment area would result in the school not being able to meet its intake requirement. The parents, governors and the PTA fought a campaign to keep the school open and won. The fact is the council got it wrong - their ‘assumption’ on falling intake numbers was wrong.”

Could we be saying the same thing in a few years? Never give up! Let us learn from the experiences of other people and keep moving forward.