Merging schools??

Errata

I'm not sure if it applies to schools, but if a Diocese decides to close a church an appeal to the Vatican will keep it open until the Vatican makes a decision.

Spendless

Janepig wrote: »

Is that the case with most large-ish primary schools? DD's school covers ages 3-11. The nursery have their own yard with special play equipment. They also used to have lunch in their classroom until last year when elf and safety dictated that they couldn't do that any more.

Reception go to the big yard to join yr 1 and 2 for one playtime, but they also have their own playtime in the nursery yard. Yr 1 and 2 have separate assembly, playtime and dinner sitting from yrs 3, 4, 5 and 6. Although I think part of it might also be the fact that there's 400+ in the school and space is an issue!

Jxx

The one's I have experience of -yes. My children attend seperate infant and junior schools but all on the same grounds. Nursery has it's own playground, infants have their own playground. Juniors have a playground for years 3 and 4 and another for years 5 and 6.

My neice and nephew at a Primary have 3 different playgrounds, nursery /reception-yr 2/ yr3-yr6.

Friends school had one playground but all sectioned into different areas.

Primary I worked in 2 playgrounds for 'infant' years and 'junior' years.

I would suggest the OP asks what they intend doing about different ages in the playground if that is one of her concerns first.

Poppy9

My DD primary was small (200 pupils) so just nursery and reception had their own playground while Y1-6 shared the same yard. It was never an issue and in someways was a benefit as some of the older girls are quite caring of the younger children and help them etc.

lewt

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

It's a bit difficult when you are responsible for human resources and thus were responsible for conducting interviews

As I said, some of the worst, least tolerant people I encountered were those who had a public Catholic education.

Would you be one of those?

GlasweJen

Our Catholic primary school catered from nursery to 11 years old. With the exception of the nursery class we all shared the one playground though the unwritten rules of the playground prevented year groups from mixing too much out of their age range.