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Advertiser 21 Oct 10
Rowley View Nursery School, on Dangerfield Road, Darlaston was rated ‘outstanding’ by the school inspectors following their two-day visit at the end of last month.
Reporting inspector David Carrington praised the teachers and teaching assistants who are ‘expert at meeting the needs of the young children’…
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Advertiser 23 Sep 10
A caring building company gave a safety talk at a Walsall nursery this week to say thanks to the community for their help while works got under way.
Staff from Bullock Construction in Aldridge visited Taylor’s Tots in Boundary Road, Streetly, with the Ivor Goodsite character helping the children find out about site safety and stress the importance of not wandering on to a building site…
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Adam Lumley The YamYam 27 Jan 10
Plans for a parent “buy-out” of the Rainbow Day Nursery in the grounds of Shelfield Academy are unlikely to come to fruition due to the cost involved in funding the pre-school education facility.
Parents of toddlers and staff at the Broad Way nursery were told in November that it would close in January to make way for building development on the school campus. Following a public demonstration, a stay of execution was granted until March. However, campaigners opposed to the closure were told that they would have to raise £200,000 to keep the nursery open. Parent Jody Hepworth wanted to relocate the well-used facility but said that people could not afford the increase in fees that would be required to fund the move.
“It’s sad. For us it has never been an option for Rainbows to close,” she said.
Speaking in November, Principal of Shelfield Academy, Bernard Dickenson said: “In our original proposals for the new Academy we wanted to retain a nursery on site but Partnerships for Schools told us this was classed as a dedicated community facility and the allocated funding for the new build would not include this.”
Partnerships for Schools run the Academies programme on behalf of central government. Academies do not come under the jurisdiction of local authorities. The deadline for objections to the closure of the Rainbow Day Nursery have to be submitted to the school today, Wednesday 27 January.
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Adam Lumley The YamYam 27 Nov 09
Campaigners battling to save a popular nursery have forced council bosses to delay its closure after staging a public demonstration.
Last week, staff and parents at the Rainbow Day Nursery were told by letter that the facility would be shut down in January. The closure of the nursery, which shares the grounds of Shelfield Community Academy in Broad Way, is to make way for a multi-million pound expansion of the school. On Tuesday, parents angry at such short notice, protested outside the school against the closure and were even joined by pupils from the Academy.
The demo prompted Walsall Council Head Property Services, Kevin Kendall to issue a statement. “We are working closely with the Academy to delay the closure until mid March and are confident this can be achieved.”
Parent Jody Hepworth, whose one-year-old attends the nursery said: “We just want them to understand that we will not take this lying down and will do everything we can to save what is an excellent nursery.”
Campaigners have been told that if they raise sufficient funding, thought to be in the region of £200,000, then the nursery can stay. Principal of the Academy, Bernard Dickenson said:
“In our original proposals for the new Academy we wanted to retain a nursery on site but Partnerships for Schools told us this was classed as a dedicated community facility and the allocated funding for the new build would not include this.”
The irony of a Community Academy kicking out a “community facility” was not lost on demonstrators. One banner quoted the Academy motto, “Laying the foundations of bright young futures” and added “but only for over 11`s.”
Partnerships for Schools is the government body responsible for the management and delivery of the Academies programme and Building Schools for the Future. It remains unclear if PfS policy will affect the future of Millfields Nursery School Community Services in Bloxwich which shares the same site as Walsall Academy.
Campaigners committed to saving Rainbow Day Nursery are holding a public meeting at Shelfield Community Academy on Saturday at 10am.