A leading Isle of Wight councillor has said he is “devastated” by last Thursday’s vote to close Cowes Primary School. Councillor Paul Fuller, cabinet member for planning, coastal protection and ...

The decision to shut Cowes Primary School and Arreton St George's CE Primary School was made by the Isle of Wight Council's cabinet on Thursday night. The authority says the closures are a ...

Three primary schools on the Isle of Wight have been saved from closure, but two will shut as planned this summer. Isle of Wight Council's cabinet voted to shut Arreton St George's CE and Cowes ...

A Church of England diocese has launched a formal appeal over a council decision to shut two primary schools. Isle of Wight Council's cabinet voted to shut Arreton St George's CE and Cowes Primary ...

Lawyers for the Diocese of Portsmouth wrote to the council’s legal team on Friday (March 21), the day after its Cabinet voted to close Arreton St George C of E School and Cowes Primary School. Despite ...

Lawyers from the Diocese of Portsmouth notified the council on Friday about the referral, after its Cabinet agreed to close Arreton St George C of E School and Cowes Primary School at the end of ...

Two of those three are C of E schools. Two other schools — Arreton St George’s C of E Primary School and Cowes Primary School — are still due to close this summer, with the council citing an excess of ...

A plan to allow primary teachers to work in second level schools is one of a number of options under consideration by Department of Education officials as a way of tackling staff shortages in ...

In a new survey, nine in ten primary school teachers said that children’s speech and language issues have worsened since 2020. Teachers have been noticing declining school preparedness in young ...