Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Chief Executive of Education Leeds detailing the representations received in response to the statutory notices previously published with respect to Primrose High School and recommending the closure of the school and replacing it with an academy sponsored by the Co-operative Group of Companies (the Co-op) in September 2011.

Further to minute 221 of the meeting held on 7^th April 2010 the Chief Executive of Education Leeds submitted a report detailing the representations received in response to the statutory notices previously published with respect to Primrose High School and proposing the closure of the school and its replacement with an academy sponsored by the Co-operative Group of Companies (the Co-op) in September 2011.

RESOLVED –

a)   That the responses to the statutory notices be noted.

b)   That the views of School Organisation Advisory Board in regard to the proposal be noted.

c)   That, having considered the future of Primrose High as part of the  national challenge, the Board judged that closure of the school and replacing it with an academy sponsored by the Co-Operative Group would deliver sustainable change and improvement in governance, leadership, the quality of teaching, and ultimately the outcomes achieved by young people attending the school. 

d)   That approval be given to the discontinuance of Primrose High School on 31 August 2011 conditional upon the making of an agreement between the Secretary of State and the Co-op to establish an Academy on the same site on 1 September 2011.