Campaigners save Yorkshire school

February 02 2011

A tiny Yorkshire primary school has been saved following a nine-week campaign.

Parents and members of the local community rallied around to prevent the closure of Kettlewell Primary School.

The top-rated school accommodates approximately 30 pupils and has been key in helping to attract more people to the remote area, the Guardian reports.

School governor Richard Humpridge, who has two children at Kettlewell, told the newspaper: "Small schools perform better. It's all part of the small-is-beautiful ethos – an intimate teaching environment, the big kids looking after the small ones, and the close bonds with the local community."

His views were echoed by Chris Beazley of Kettlewell-with-Starbotton parish council who said that losing the school could have cost the local community its future.

"Young families make a village. Without a school, I'm not sure many would have wanted to stay. No one here wants to see what is now a living, vibrant village turn into just a walk-around museum," he told the newspaper.

In other Yorkshire school news, Barnsley Christian School is looking to become state-funded as part of the coalition's new free schools initiative, the Yorkshire Post reports.

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