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Positive schools meeting this evening (18-11-10)

Congratulations to all involved, organisers and speakers alike, in the very well attended meeting this evening to air community views on the council proposals to amalgamate the local school to Lochnell. Every point on which the council tries to prove the case was disproved and discredited. Even the financial option is on shaky ground when [...]

November 18, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Bonawe, Children, Community, Community Council, North Connel, Schools  One Comment

Schools Amalgamation – Community meeting

Ardchattan Community Council – Schools Amalgamation meeting You are invited to a meeting to hear the community view on the proposed closures of the local primary schools, and amalgamation of the pupils to Lochnell School This meeting is on Thursday 18th November 2010, at 19.30hrs in the Victory Hall Benderloch. The purpose of the meeting [...]

November 17, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Bonawe, Community Council, North Connel, Schools  No Comments

Argyll and Bute funding alert for November

each month Argyll and Bute Council produce a list of some of the funds that are available to a wide range of individuals, and groups, to support all sorts of activities that might help our community.

November 8, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Funding  No Comments

SCHOOLS (CONSULTATION)(SCOTLAND) ACT 2010 – Guidance and support available

Mike Russell MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, has written to those involved in the local schools issue to offer some helpful reminders of the role that parents now have, in law, concerning any decisions involving their local schools.

November 5, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Bonawe, Schools  No Comments

ABC defer schools consultation

Argyll and Bute Council has agreed to defer making a decision on the future of its school estate until 25 November.

November 2, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Bonawe, Community, Schools  No Comments

Schools — has tomorrows ABC meeting been cancelled?

http://forargyll.com/2010/11/schools-closures-2nd-november-council-meeting-cancelled/ Further update 2nd Nov– looks like at the meetings today that some councillors will be pressing for the consultation itself to be reviewed and postponed. There an interesting report from the SRSN on the financial flaws of the consultation document on For Argyll http://forargyll.com/2010/11/schools-closure-proposals-new-shocks-in-an-abysmal-mess-best-abandoned/ UPDATED — it seems that a councillor elsewhere in Argyll [...]

November 1, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Bonawe, Community, Schools  No Comments

Save Barcaldine Primary School

From Barcaldine School on Facebook Please can you invite all your friends to “like” this page to show our opposition to the closure of our local primary school. Make sure you select like on this page and not just the comment http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Barcaldine-Primary-School/129164993806004?v=wall

November 1, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Community, Schools  3 Comments

Barcaldine Parent Council : first response to threatened closure

Draft response from Parent Council for meeting on 2nd November – Please read –  all Comments welcome -

October 31, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Community, Schools  No Comments

For Argyll articles on Schools closures

October 29th : http://forargyll.com/2010/10/schools-closures-issues-and-procedures/ Schools closures: issues and procedures October 31st : - http://forargyll.com/2010/10/school-closures-damagingly-flawed-mathematics-on-falling-school-rolls/ The quoted statistics on falling school rolls are wrong Advice for community campaigns: Sandy Longmuir of the Scottish Rural Schools Network advises: ‘Every school should examine their own position and not just accept that rolls will fall catastrophically. Births by old council ward [...]

October 29, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Bonawe, Community, Schools  No Comments

Schools Consultation

Review of Education Provision at Lochnell, Achaleven Ardchattan and Barcaldine Primary Schools Argyll and Bute Council https://www.education.ea.argyll-bute.sch.uk/schoolconsultations/docs/Achaleven_Ardchattan_and_Barcaldine_to_Lochnell_25_October.pdf The document is 23 pages long and has many facts, justifications and figures,

October 29, 2010   Posted in: argyll and bute council, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Bonawe, North Connel, Schools  No Comments