“There has been a school at Lowick beyond the memory of man”
nico | 12.02.2004 12:25 | Education | Free Spaces | Social Struggles
Lowick Pioneers - "Shared reading is a firm favourite amongst the whole school, where the Infants chose a Junior to read with them."
... "Jan 24 ~ A Cumbrian village is to establish the first cooperative-run state school after losing two appeals to keep its 18-pupil primary open.
One of the most encouraging news articles we have seen for weeks was in the Guardian yesterday (many thanks to Coleen for this)
"Villagers in Lowick, which is spread over three small parishes on the southern edge of the Lake District, have been told that their 150-year-old school must close in July due to falling rolls. Pupils will instead have to travel up to 11 miles a day by taxi to Perry Bridge school. However, campaigners for the school, including its pupils, who mounted the judicial review which failed to halt its closure, insist that the school is vital to the community .......The Co-operative Action Fund has donated £28,000 to help produce a legal model of the new school before term starts in September. The school's headteacher, Shirley Rainbow, said the school is the "focus of the community".
"There is no shop, no post office, just the church and the school. We were badly hit by foot and mouth, nobody could go anywhere, but they came here, just to talk," she said. They plan to call the school the Lowick Pioneers school. ...""
http://www.enterprisingcommunities.org.uk/hyperlinks/lowick_whats_%20special_about_lowick_pioneer_school.doc
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1129224,00.html
http://www.warmwell.com/warm1dem.html
One of the most encouraging news articles we have seen for weeks was in the Guardian yesterday (many thanks to Coleen for this)
"Villagers in Lowick, which is spread over three small parishes on the southern edge of the Lake District, have been told that their 150-year-old school must close in July due to falling rolls. Pupils will instead have to travel up to 11 miles a day by taxi to Perry Bridge school. However, campaigners for the school, including its pupils, who mounted the judicial review which failed to halt its closure, insist that the school is vital to the community .......The Co-operative Action Fund has donated £28,000 to help produce a legal model of the new school before term starts in September. The school's headteacher, Shirley Rainbow, said the school is the "focus of the community".
"There is no shop, no post office, just the church and the school. We were badly hit by foot and mouth, nobody could go anywhere, but they came here, just to talk," she said. They plan to call the school the Lowick Pioneers school. ...""
http://www.enterprisingcommunities.org.uk/hyperlinks/lowick_whats_%20special_about_lowick_pioneer_school.doc http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1129224,00.html http://www.warmwell.com/warm1dem.html
nico