Wakeman School closure appeal lodged

Monday 12th September 2011, 11:06AM BST.

Sammy Parkhurst, head boy Matthew Davies, Michael Huxley, head girl Gemma Exelby and Cameron Beattie with their campaign slogan www why waste wakeman?
Sammy Parkhurst, head boy Matthew Davies, Michael Huxley, head girl Gemma Exelby and Cameron Beattie with their campaign slogan www why waste wakeman?

Staff and governors at Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School have appealed against a plan to close it.

Last week members of Shropshire Council’s cabinet approved recommendations the school should shut its doors in 2013.

But an appeal has been lodged with the schools’ adjudicator.


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    james harwood

    If Shropshire Council is, in fact, guilty in this case, it will be a good thing that they have been challenged and found out.

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