Issue - meetings

To submit a report by the Head of Learning.

It was resolved:

·        To approve the original proposals namely –

·                     Propose not to support Ysgol Bodorgan (Bodorgan, Anglesey LL62 5AB), Ysgol Dwyran (Dwyran, Anglesey LL61 6AQ), Ysgol Niwbwrch (Newborough, Anglesey, LL61 6TE) and Ysgol Llangaffo (Llangaffo, Anglesey LL60 6LT) that are at present maintained by the Isle of Anglesey County Council and to set up a new Welsh medium primary school under the Church in Wales’s voluntary control to be held by the Isle of Anglesey County Council on a site in Newborough on land by Morawelon, Newborough, LL61 6TH for 3-11 year old boys and girls.

·                     Not to support Ysgol Parc y Bont (Llanddaniel, Anglesey, LL60 6HB), that is at present maintained by the Isle of Anglesey County Council as a school under the voluntary control of the Church in Wales and to set up a new Welsh medium community primary school to be maintained by the Isle of Anglesey County Council on the Ysgol Parc y Bont site for 3-11 year old boys and girls. Ysgol Brynsiencyn will be federalised with another school.

·      To authorise Officers to continue with the process of -

·                     Building a new primary school in Newborough (conditional on the site being suitable)

·                     Adapting Ysgol y Parc y Bont and changing its status and

·                     Adapting Ysgol Brynsiencyn and federalising it with another primary school.

The report of the Head of Learning following the publication of statutory notices for (a) a new primary school in Aberffraw and (b) Ysgol Parc y Bont to become a community school and to federalise Ysgol Brynsiencyn was presented for the Executive’s consideration. The report included an objection report as at Appendix A following the receipt of one objection to proposal (a) above.

The Portfolio Member for Education reported on the background to the proposals with regard to reorganising schools in the Bro Rhosyr and Bro Aberffraw areas and the consultation thereon and the subsequent publication of statutory notices with regard to implementing the proposals.

The Head of Learning referred to the process which the Authority had adopted to deal with an objection to a decision by the Executive to issue a statutory notice to close a primary school under the new School Organisation Code effective from 1 October, 2013 and said that this process entails the matter being referred back to the Executive to determine whether the proposals should be approved, rejected or approved with amendments. The Officer outlined the nature of the one objection received to the proposal in (a ) (namely to combine four schools – Ysgol Bodorgan, Ysgol Dwyran, Ysgol Niwbwrch and Ysgol Llangaffo in one new school on a site in Newborough which would be under the Church in Wales’s voluntary control) and the three specific matters raised therein, and she outlined  the Authority’s response to each of those matters.

It was resolved –

•  To approve the original proposals, namely –

•  Propose not to support Ysgol Bodorgan (Bodorgan, Anglesey LL62 5AB), Ysgol Dwyran (Dwyran, Anglesey, LL61 6TE) and Ysgol Llangaffo (Llangaffo, Anglesey, LL60 6LT) that

are at present maintained by the Isle of Anglesey County Council and to set up a new Welsh medium primary school under the Church in Wales’s voluntary control to be held by the Isle of Anglesey County Council on a site in Newborough on land by Morawelon, Newborough, LL61 6TH for 3-11 year old boys and girls.

•  Not to support Ysgol Parc y Bont (Llanddaniel, Anglesey LL60 6HB) that is at present maintained by the Isle of Anglesey County Council as a school under the voluntary control of the Church in Wales and to set up a new Welsh medium community primary school to be maintained by the Isle of Anglesey County Council on the Ysgol Parch y Bont site for 3-11 year old boys and girls. Ysgol Brynsiencyn will be federalised with another school.

•  To authorise Officers to continue with the process of:

•  Building a new primary school in Newborough (conditional on the site being suitable)

•  Adapting Ysgol Parc y Bont and changing its status, and

•  Adapting Ysgol Brynsiencyn and federalising it with another primary school.