New school website

The new Stockbridge primary school website is now online. See the Links section or click here.

School closure plan officially ditched

A 15 minute meeting yesterday saw the council's school closure plans ditched. Read about it here.

Campaigning at Stockbridge Village Fair

Stockbridge Village fair was brilliant this year. A beautiful day, in contrast to last year, saw hundreds of Stockbridge residents enjoy the stalls, the music, the food and the beer. Campaigners were out in force and hundreds of signatures were collected. Here are a couple of pictures. In the first we can see the fantastic new banners and logo designed to highlight the campaign. In the second two campaigners try to persuade a bald man (me) that he's been in the sun to long.

Emergency meeting called for next Saturday

Labour and Green councillors have demanded an emergency meeting next Saturday to discuss the U-turn by the Liberal Democrat-SNP administration over the planned school closures. Read about it here.

The council regroups

Read about it here.

Please remember the Stockbridge Village Fair taking place tomorrow from 10:30 until 5:00. The weather forecast is good and it should be a great day out. Stockbridge school will be well represented with a stall being manned all day and the P7 choir due to perform at 2:00. If anyone can spare a little time to help out with leafletting, collecting signatures etc then just call at the stall.

Pupils quit threatened schools

This is one of the saddest aspects of this whole sorry and badly handled episode.

And now the fallout

SNP told to find cash to keep city schools open. Read more here and here. Not sure how Lib-Dem councillors can order SNP coucillors to do anything but there you go.

More worrying is this report regarding budget cuts headteachers are facing.