Save Breckland School

Breckland Middle School will close in 2012

Despite the work by the SABRES (Save Breckland School) team, it has been decided by the schools adjudicator that Breckland Middle School will close in 2012 as first planned.

 

 

The Save Breckland School (SABRES) aims were:

To change Breckland into a Secondary school for 11-16 year olds.

To keep the facilities Breckland offers for the community groups who already use it.

 

 

Information about the campaign in 2009:

In 2012 Brandon will be faced with a major loss of its local school which was built back in 1964. It was built so it could be used as a Secondary School, and there is no reason why we should let the school be thrown away by Suffolk County Council.

 

Suffolk County Council have decided to close Breckland Middle School in the Summer of 2012, but it's very important that a campaign is carried out by everyone possible right now to contest the Suffolk County Council decision.

 

An action committee of 12 people has been formed with the objective to co-ordinate the actions of people who have stated they wish to assist the campaign to keep the school open. Using a variety of means of communication you will be able to keep up to date on the campaigns being run and the support actions required in support of saving the school.

 

Suffolk County Council have decided Brandon is too small to support a Secondary School, so part of a £32 million school reorganisation project will then require all children from Brandon over 11 to go on a daily 20 mile round trip to get to school.

 

That means each child over a 5 year period will have had to travel 15000 miles to get too and from school, even with just 400 pupils making the trip each day from Brandon, thats then over 6 million miles over a 5 year period.

 

Breckland could easily become an 11-16 Secondary School - it was before! We have already begun providing the new cross-curricular skills-based Key Stage 3 curriculum because we already have the expertise.

 

We need Suffolk County Council to cater for our unique situation - not close us because that's what is happening county-wide. Our own needs for our children and as a community must be listened to and at the moment they are not hearing us.

 

 

Photos of the campaigns:

 

Click the photos above or click here to see more photos in our Save Breckland School Gallery.