Issue - meetings

To approve the Business Case for the expansion of Springfield Primary School by an additional 90 infant places. Springfield is an academy within the GLF Multi-Academy Trust.

This school currently admits 30 pupils into Reception each year but has an additional junior Published Admission Number (PAN) of 30 in order to provide places for  children leaving Hawkedale Infant School at the end of Key Stage One.  As permission as already been granted to make Hawkedale a one Form of Entry (1 FE) primary school, by adding junior places there (30 places per year), it is proposed to make Springfield 2 FE throughout by adding 30 infant places and retaining 60 junior places. This will result in a total roll at Springfield of 420 plus 30 nursery places.

The proposal is part of the Sunbury on Thames primary school re-organisation which will create an additional form of entry, or 210 primary places between two schools, to meet the basic need requirements in the planning area from September 2017 onwards.

It was agreed that, subject to the agreement of the detailed financial information for the expansion as set out in agenda item 7 in Part 2 of this agenda, the business case for the provision of an additional 90 R-Year 2 places in the Sunbury primary school planning area be approved.