A blessing in disguise?
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2010-05-21 16:30.The proposed rebuild of St Paul's Primary as a two form entry school (i.e. doubling its size) is so badly planned it would, in my opinion, be a blessing if it could be stopped.
With St Paul's already making cutbacks, including the loss of some teaching staff, the rebuilt school would have to be completely full to make even marginal budgetary improvements. The data supplied by Camden about projected demand does not support the increase in the school's size. In the best case scenario, St Paul's would have to fill all its places, to the detriment of other schools, in order to produce a workable budget. In the worst case scenario, from Camden's own data, the rebuilt school could not fill all its places and would become a financial disaster.
We can only hope and pray that the other proposed schemes are better planned and more appopriate.